5/11/2023 0 Comments Severance ling ma cover![]() ![]() ![]() She remembers how her mother was active in their local church, and burns offerings of money and skin cream for her parents after they die. She doesn’t particularly want to be doing Bibles, but it’s the job she’s got, and there’s no shortage of work to be done. At her book production company, Candace is in charge of Bibles, overseeing the design and manufacture of endless novelty and gift editions. Likewise, Ma’s novel is steeped in religious themes. ![]() It’s no surprise that both works-among countless others written and developed around the same time-picked up on the toxicity of corporate life. Ma’s novel was published two years before the pandemic began, and director Ben Stiller read the first Severance script five years before the show’s premiere. Of course, we were disgruntled with office culture long before Covid. The brief loosening of office workers’ leashes during Covid gave us the space we needed to see the rhetoric for the lie that it is. Corporate culture leans hard into lofty idealism to keep its workers in line, calling them family and pronouncing their work a sacred vocation. Those of us who were lucky enough to be able to work from home did so, and found that our offices didn’t crumble into dust without our butts warming our Steelcase-fabricated chairs. ![]() Severance points to the strange marriage of capitalism and spiritualityĬovid, and the extended quarantines it spawned in many parts of the world, changed the way we look at office culture. ![]()
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