Severance’s creator reveals why eggs are such a prominent part of the show
Severance may be one of the biggest shows in the world at the minute, but that doesn’t stop it from being unendingly weird.
The show has broken records in season two, becoming the most watched Apple TV+ show in history, overtaking Ted Lasso.
The premise is simple, it follows a group of workers who have severed their minds, meaning they don’t have a single memory from 9.00am to 5.00pm.
Severance, however, focuses predominantly on the bizarre life of the consciousness of the workers who only exist in the work hours.
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The company they work for, Lumon, has a logo that is essentially an egg.
One of their rewards for good work is being given access to an egg bar and there is a season two scene in which the company’s owner insists on watching his daughter eat a devilled egg, saying he wishes she would ‘take it raw’.
All in all, the series has astoundingly more references to eggs than you would normally expect from a show, and it has led to many online questioning what the deal is.
Where many would be concerned about when season three is coming out, the identity debate from the season two finale, or what’s going to happen next, we exclusively put to the show’s creator Dan Erickson the question: ‘What is the deal with eggs?’
Speaking exclusively to the LADbible group, Erickson opened up about what inspired it, saying: “Well, it's one of those things that is very normal, and we take for granted as a normal thing.
“Then the more you think about it, the weirder it is that we all eat eggs. I mean, when you think about what an egg really is and where it comes from and all that. It's just, it's a bizarre thing that we've all agreed to pretend is chill.”
Erickson then jokingly said: “So yeah, that's the main moral of Severance.”
Ben Stiller, who directs many of the episodes and is an executive producer, said: “I am not an egg fan. I don't love eggs. I don't like eggs. And even shooting those scenes was difficult for me, being on set and close to [Britt Lower, who ate an egg in season one and two].”
Erickson then joked that ‘Ben hates eggs and I hate elevators, so the show is really an exercise in masochism therapy’.
The clarification will come as welcome news in answering one of the 100+ mysteries still left in the show.
The series two finale, which ended on a massive cliffhanger once again, has been a huge hit with fans despite the creepy egg moments and numerous unanswered questions.
It's currently sitting at a near perfect rating of 9.6/10 on IMDb, with Indiewire saying of the finale: “Cold Harbor, the exceptional Season 2 finale that pushes Severance to uncomfortable new extremes.”
Severance is available to stream on Apple TV+.
Topics: TV and Film, TV, Apple
Michael Slavin