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Matt Mullen

"Sometimes just a few notes on the piano are enough to be scarier than a 90-piece orchestra": What makes Severance's theme music so "eerily satisfying"?

If you haven't seen Severance, you're missing out. The eagerly-anticipated second season of this surreal and dystopian thriller premiered on Apple TV in January, taking viewers once more into the bowels of Lumon, a sinister biotechnology corporation that asks its employees to undergo a neurological procedure known as "severance".

Dividing their consciousness to create a split personality that knows nothing of life outside Lumon's four walls, severed employees effectively become two people inside one body: when they descend the elevator to Lumon's sterile, maze-like basement floor, severed employees lose all sense of identity, and after clocking off at the end of the day, they take no memories of their work home with them.

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