SEVERANCE S1E1: Good News About Hell

In Which: we meet our cast, and have an inciting incident.

“Who are you?”

On a bland conference room table ringed with neatly-placed chairs lies a fair-skinned woman with red hair. Her blue and teal clothes echo the colors of the carpet; everything here is precise, perfectly placed, planned. The question comes from a speakerphone set on the table, a small box, old-fashioned but instantly recognizable.

The woman stirs, and the question comes again: “Who are you?” A man’s voice, mildly ch...