Items10The creator’s order
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Counterpart (2017)First aired 10 Dec 2017Howard Silk discovers that the bureaucracy employing him conceals another version of his world, and another version of himself. J. K. Simmons makes the difference between the two men feel like an argument about choices rather than a visual trick. The office protocols acquire intimate consequences,…0
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Homecoming (2018)First aired 1 Nov 2018Julia Roberts's apparently reassuring rehabilitation workplace is full of conversations whose purpose changes as more information arrives. Start with the 2018 first season: its short episodes and controlled framing turn professional courtesy into a source of unease. Memory is something an…0
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Devs (2020)First aired 5 Mar 2020A software engineer investigates a secret division of her employer after her boyfriend disappears. Alex Garland makes the campus feel both inviting and unnervingly devotional, with Nick Offerman's founder at its centre. The connection to Severance is the corporate permission to investigate other…0
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Maniac (2018)First aired 21 Sept 2018A pharmaceutical trial promises to repair two strangers' lives, then sends them through a succession of invented worlds. Emma Stone and Jonah Hill supply the vulnerable human continuity beneath the changing genres. The retro equipment and dubious clinical assurances should appeal to a Lumon…0
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Mrs. Davis (2023)First aired 20 Apr 2023A nun sets out to destroy an algorithm that seems to have made itself indispensable. Betty Gilpin gives the increasingly absurd quest a stubborn emotional centre, turning the question of freely chosen purpose into something funny and personal. This is a much louder comic adventure than Severance,…0
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Lodge 49 (2018)First aired 6 Aug 2018The gentler detour: an adrift ex-surfer finds company and possible hidden meaning inside a shabby fraternal lodge. Around him, ordinary work and debt make belonging feel materially important. The rituals and doors may attract a Severance viewer, but the generosity towards struggling people is the…0
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The Lazarus Project (2022)First aired 16 Jun 2022George can remember a world reset that everybody around him has forgotten. The organisation recruiting him claims to protect humanity, but its rules force him to weigh an intimate loss against the authorised version of events. That institutional ownership of a person's experience supplies the…0
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The Institute (2025)First aired 13 Jul 2025Stephen King's 2025 television adaptation takes its institutional horror into a facility holding children with unusual abilities. Luke Ellis has to learn what its routines and apparently reasonable adults are concealing. It is a more direct captivity thriller than Severance, with young people's…0
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Dr. Brain (2021)First aired 4 Nov 2021A neuroscientist's attempt to investigate a family tragedy through other people's memories makes a supposedly precise procedure dangerously intimate. The Korean-language series lets borrowed impressions unsettle the investigator's sense of himself. Its horror imagery is more explicit than…0
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3% (2016)First aired 25 Nov 2016The selection process in this Brazilian Portuguese-language drama promises a tiny minority an escape from deprivation. Tests and official explanations turn a political arrangement into something that looks like an objective measure of personal worth. The competition is more overt than Lumon's…0