I finally watched Severance, and holy crap was it good. Slow-paced but tense and compelling, with well-drawn characters and a mind-bending premise in the style of silver age SF. The basic pitch is this: A company called Lumon has created a technology that splits your memory in half: while inside the building you can't remember anything from outside, and while outside the building you can't remember anything from inside. This is already cool enough, and fertile ground for some fun corporate satire, but then they add in some spooky, almost eldritch hints of horror at the edges, and it's just awesome. And the season finale was one of the best things I've seen on TV in a looong time.
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