How ‘Severance’ perfected its creepy, beautiful visual language

When we first meet Helly R., the indefatigable heroine of “Severance, ” she’s splayed on a conference desk in a windowless room carpeted in putrid shades of green. She awakens, for the first time, as an “innie” — someone who’s selected to sever their brain so that they can carry out their work responsibilities as a person separate from who they are outside — an extreme way of achieving work-life balance.Continue Reading