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‘Severance’ Creator Dan Erickson Discusses the ‘Depressing’ Lumon Industries — While Touring Lumen, the Actual Name for Variety’s Office Building
'Severance' creator Dan Erickson discusses the 'depressing' Lumon Industries — while touring Lumen, the actual name for Variety's office building.
This is the kind of fancy office — complete with a gym, pickleball courts and a barbecue station — that real estate agents like to call a “campus.” The name of our building: Lumen. It’s either self-torture or some kind of immersion therapy, where I’m getting a bunch of beautiful actors and making them stand in tiny elevators to work through my issues.” The idea of providing mirth on the job, of course, reminds me of those Lumon perks: waffle parties, “music dance experiences,” the choreography & merriment department’s marching band.
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