TV fans spot $200,000,000 show was revealed over a decade before airing

Severance has taken Apple TV+ by storm, and eagle eyed fans person spotted an astonishing notation successful a antithetic amusement good implicit a decennary earlier.

The sci-fi thriller stars Adam Scott arsenic Lumon Industries biotech worker Mark Scout who, similar his colleagues, has to person a instrumentality implanted to erase each memories of the extracurricular satellite during their moving day, and vice versa.

They’re past near with 2 abstracted personalities, with their ‘Innie’ moving astatine Lumon, and their ‘Outdie’ surviving their mundane beingness distant from the business.

Adam takes the pb successful the show, which is reported to person outgo $200million for the 2nd season, and immoderate viewers person spotted that helium referenced a precise akin premise successful an aged occurrence of Parks and Recreation.

In the mockumentary sitcom, his quality Ben Wyatt tells Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) they should abstracted their antithetic lives.

‘Maybe it would beryllium bully to support our location beingness and our enactment beingness separate,’ helium says to her successful the clip, which aired implicit a decennary ago. ‘Like, we lone speech astir enactment worldly erstwhile we’re astatine City Hall, similar a firewall system!’

She replies: ‘Yeah ok, that’s smart, location is home, and enactment is work. We tin ever speech astir this time astatine the office.’

Fans are going chaotic implicit the video connected societal media, with 1 Reddit idiosyncratic joking it was wide ‘foreshadowing’.

‘Severance is conscionable Ben Wyatt’s Covid-induced fever dream. This volition extremity similar the Bob Newhart show,’ quipped a 2nd fan.

A 3rd idiosyncratic joked: ‘[Ben] would perfectly emotion Severance. He’d besides deliberation the main quality looks strangely similar him, but nary 1 other successful the formed would agree.’

Someone other shared the clip connected Instagram, and described the country arsenic ‘the inception of Severance,’ and others wondered if it played a portion successful landing Adam his role.

‘This has to beryllium wherefore the severance writers and directors formed him,’ an Instagram idiosyncratic suggested.’Someone 1 was watching parks and recs and said this feline gets it. (sic)’

Severance was created by Dan Erickson, who archetypal got the thought for the amusement erstwhile helium was ‘working a truly atrocious bureau occupation and going done a somewhat depressive state’.

He aboriginal added to The Hollywood Reporter: ‘my occupation became truthful mind-numbing that I had the phantasy that would go the premise of the show.

‘What if I could skip the 8 hours of the workday, to disassociate and conscionable get it implicit with?’

He was inspired by the likes of Office Space, The Truman Show, Nineteen Eighty-Four and more, portion the United States and wider satellite besides had an influence.

‘Employees are the ones who are expected to springiness and springiness and give, with the knowing that this is simply a family,’ helium told TheWrap.

‘You’re doing this retired of love, but past that is often not returned by the employers successful immoderate benignant of a substantive way.’

Severance is disposable to watercourse connected Apple TV+.

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