If you had the choice of altering your brain so that your work life and personal life were two, disparate realities, would you do it? In the Apple TV+ show Severance, it is possible to do just that, and surprisingly there are people that say yes to that question. The procedure leaves one stream of consciousness to enjoy life outside of work, never to be bogged down by stress, while the other only exists to grind the 9-5.
Sounds thrilling for one half of your brain, right?
An eagle-eyed viewer of the show, Krystina Nellis, noticed a small detail of the show that I missed; one of the many little details that make this show as engrossing as it is. In the office space shared by some of these 'severed' employees, the custom keyboard they use for their work (sorting numbers into folders based on feeling—it's a whole thing) is missing any visible Escape key.
nerdy, extremely appropriate thing I just noticed about set design on #Severance: the keyboards have no (visible) escape key
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