Ben Stiller’s upcoming Apple TV+ series Severance is turning into an
Escape At Dannemora reunion, with a press release today announcing that Patricia Arquette will be co-starring in the streaming series. Stiller is directing, as he did with Dannemora, and Arquette will be joining previously cast co-star Adam Scott (who joined the series back in November). Severance is going to be a grim workplace hellscape, with the aforementioned press release saying it’s about a company called Lumen Industries that’s “looking to take work-life balance to a new level.” Scott is playing “an employee with a dark past trying to put himself back together,” and Arquette will be playing his boss at Lumen.
The press release refers to the show as a “thriller,” so it’s hard to judge what the tone will be or what bad thing this company is up to, but it’s probably not literal severing, right? (Because it’s called Severance?) That would be more horror than thriller, but we’ll just have to wait and see—though the press release doesn’t mention a premiere date.
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Good news. Escape At Dannemora was well done. The acting and direction were exceptional. The long take with Paul Dano is perfect filmmaking.
Not super relevant (I don’t AppleTV) but a Trainspotting 2-style reprisal of True Romance would certainly get my dollars/subscription. Please, anyone?Also not relevant, but props to her for being one of the few people alive that can make that hairstyle look good. Bangin’ bangs.
Scott is playing “an employee with a dark past trying to put himself back together,”***Spoiler Alert*** Does this dark past involve any sort of “IceTown”?Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown
Or maybe his wife disappeared mysteriously?
I was looking for the headline, and I had no idea it’d become such a meme.
“but it’s probably not literal severing, right? (Because it’s called Severance?)“
Jesus, fucking stop.
When did Patricia Arquette first hear of R.E.M.?
1 show a year 1 emmy and 1 golden globe every year, sounds about right
I don’t think that Patricia Arquette is untalented, but I would like to see Rosanna Arquette in more stuff (I think her career was a victim of Harvey Weinstein, after she rebuffed his advances)
She has been incredible recently. We just watched her in Escape from Dannemora and she was icky it made my skin crawl. Great performance!
Presumably she signed the contract before Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globes speech?