Severance is reminiscent of Better Off Ted

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https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/bet...here-to-watch/

The Apple TV+ series "is an eerie, prestige-y update to what my basic cultural literacy understands to be a well-established dark office satire formula—that is, framing modern office work as a kind of imprisonment within a windowless, dehumanizing box in which blatantly meaningless tasks are performed for the merciless satisfaction of a blonde, power-hungry corporate ice queen," says Alexis Gunderson. "But it also owes something to one of its more ambitious (and equally bleak) forebears: ABC’s cult-favorite 'horrible corporate' sitcom, Better Off Ted," which aired for two seasons from 2009 to 2010. Gunderson adds: '"Created by Victor Fresco and starring Jay Harrington, Portia de Rossi, Andrea Anders, Jonathan Slavin, Malcolm Barrett, and Isabella Acres, Better Off Ted focused on the same question Severance has made so central to its identity ('who are we when we’re at work, and does that person even count as a person?') but ran it through the quirky single camera sitcom lens. Full of bright colors, an irritatingly catchy jingle-adjacent soundtrack, and the kind of hammy performances you find more often in theatrical productions than on network comedies, Better Off Ted made the existential horror of losing yourself inside a soulless corporate behemoth, well, fun."