Indentured Servers

Releasing its first season in early 2022, Severance presents a near-future where biotech mega-company Lumon uses a controversial and questionable procedure: a chip implanted in their employees’ brains severs their memory-making faculties during work hours. The reason is bathed in mystery – to achieve a healthy work-life balance, as the company would put it? Or is it the sensitive, perhaps immoral nature of the work they must do?