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‘Severance’ Creator Dan Erickson On “Relief” Of MDR Reunion In Season 2, Helly’s “Ultimate Shame” And Outside Context That “Seeps In”
Dan Erickson, creator of 'Severance' unpacks key points in Season 2 Episode 1 as well as the greater corporate context that surrounds the show.
ERICKSON: The relation between the character comedy component of the show and the dark science fiction thriller part of it, I always knew that those were two of the main basic pieces of it, but I didn’t always get how they fit together until I had seen it. Watching the show, I was like, “Okay, it’s a comedy in the foreground, and then it’s a thriller in the background,” where they’re arguing over group photos and pencil erasers, but then, as it’s happening, if you’re paying attention, there’s this dark thing brewing behind them that threatens to swallow them whole. It wasn’t until every member of our creative team —our production designer and our cinematographer and our directors and our actors — had all put their stamp on it, that I figured out how it worked, and it was easier to write in that way, Season 2, but then, on the other hand, there was a lot more pressure, because all of a sudden we had this thing that we weren’t sure was going to be as widespread of a of a hit as it was.
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