Others have the feel of a thriller, a drama, a sci-fi conjecture - all styles he is less familiar with. (Imagine “Parks and Recreation,” where Scott spent six seasons, remade by Jean-Paul Sartre.) Some scenes have the feel of a workplace comedy, a genre Scott knows intimately. The role demands that he alternate between the guileless “innie” Mark, a vacant middle manager, and the dented “outtie” Mark, mourning his dead wife.
Still, the job gave him a place to put those feelings.
(When was the last time a TV show had a corporation that wasn’t?) Mark and his co-workers have each voluntarily undergone a surgical procedure known as severance, which creates a mental cordon so that your work self has no knowledge or memories of your home self and vice versa. Scott plays Mark Scout, a department chief at Lumon Industries, a shadowy corporation. 18, takes a speculative approach to work-life balance. “Severance,” which premieres its first two episodes on Apple TV+ on Feb. Then he was driven back to a silent Tribeca apartment where he spent his nights alone, which made for an odd parallel with the show itself. So in October 2020, Adam Scott, the show’s star, left his family in Los Angeles and flew to New York.įor more than eight months, on the days when he could work - production paused a few times for positive tests, and Scott himself caught Covid-19 in February 2021 - he was driven to a busy studio in the South Bronx and surrounded by (shielded, masked) colleagues. “Severance,” an unnerving workplace drama, was originally scheduled to begin filming in March 2020, but pandemic shutdowns pushed the shoot to the fall.
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