The coveted egg bar, melon bar, and waffle party look delicious AND sinister.
One of the most chilling details inSeverance — the Apple TV+ thriller serial publication about office employees who undergo a procedure that sort out their employment lifespan memories from their home lifespan retention — is how it satirizes the systems of reinforcement and welfare employer dole out to their worker drones to bestow some hullabaloo and motivation to their dull existences . The Lumon overlords treat their employees like nestling , offer minuscule prizes , deemed " perks , " to the innies working in the Macrodata Refinement department to keep their attentions invade and away from such frivolous questions as , " What the hell do we even do in here ? "
One of the best perks the power employee can get is solid food — whole tables full of it that the worker of MDR receive whenever they ’ve done something applaudable , like welcome a Modern member of their squad or complete their mysterious monthly quota . In the 2d episode , the squad stimulate a " melon bar " made up of pocket-size cantaloupe and honeydew ball served inside carve - out melon vine bowls . In the eighth installment " What ’s for Dinner ? " they ’re rewarded with an " egg bar " of hard - boiled and devil eggs—“The egg bar is covet as fuck , " Zach Cherry ’s Dylan excitedly explains — after which they choose which member of their squad will experience the honor of a " waffle political party " inside the hallowed hall of Perpetuity .
Their banquets are tasty and soft , nonthreatening yet infantilizing , the eccentric of food that would excite a 6 year older more than a working adult . That ’s what they are , after all : The innies of Lumon are as children , unacquainted and new , their knowledge unsullied by the experiences of the outside world . The foodstuffs ofSeverance — and the mathematical group picture and the rituals dedicated to the beginner Kier and the optical maser - engrave desk tsatske and the Music Dance Experiences — are strategical distractions to keep the employee motivated and away from muse questions of their own existence , like giving a nipper a snack to keep it invade on a long car trip .
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But , like children , the innies of MDR figure out a way to use the adult - engineered misdirection to their own advantage . Like a child secretly defying authority , Irving ( John Turturro ) smushes one of the deviled bollock inside the role ’s rule book of Keir Book , an tremendous bit of onscreen character maturation to show how far he ’s strayed from his fundamentalistic fanatism about the vital grandness of work and ruler as mandated by Lumon . Irving , Dylan , Helly ( Britt Lower ) , and Mark ( Adam Scott ) conspire together to post one of their squad members to the waffle party to keep him in the office after hour and available to activate the " overtime contingence " that Dylan had shortly experienced , remotely absolve the innies temporarily into their life in the external earth .
The nutrient of the show looks tasty on purpose , just like theinner offices of Lumon , with their Mary Jane - green carpeting and friendly - looking parallel technical school , are meant to bet like an inviting place to exercise . Like the innocent in the Garden , the employee of Lumon are tested daily with temptations large and little while their workplace strains to keep them trapped within , watching the phantom of the flames on the cave bulwark rather than turning around and seeing the ardor for themselves . By the final episodes , though , rather of defying their temptation , the characters ofSeveranceuse the egg bars and waffle parties to suit their own end .
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