![]() ![]() ![]() (Erickson’s favorite of Chernus’ delivery is: “Machines are made of metal, but man is made of skin.”) Image: Apple TV Plus When Chernus’ buttery voice-over reminds us, “Your so-called boss may own the clock that taunts you from the wall, but, my friends, the hour is yours,” it’s at once corny and provocative. To Erickson, Ricken’s ideas represent an important undercurrent of the show: making the mundane startlingly, stiltedly profound. So we wanted to write something that, taken out of context, could believably inspire people and had ideas under that bluster that maybe had actual value to them.” And also with this knowledge that it was going to become a serious plot device later on. ![]() “ I didn’t want it to be so silly that it felt out of the world. “It’s obviously a sort of heightened take on a self-help book,” Erickson tells Polygon in a Zoom interview. And to that end, he never wanted the book to be just a funny voice-over. To him, the book represented more than a silly joke. Without even receiving a copy, Mark (Adam Scott) is ready to scoff at Ricken’s attempts to philosophize his way through the world.īut Severance creator Dan Erickson isn’t so sure. ![]() It would be easy to dismiss Ricken’s self-help book, The You You Are, in the first season of Severance - it is, in fact, what happens a lot as the copy that Ricken (Michael Chernus) leaves on his brother-in-law Mark’s doorstep shuffles from one person to the next. ![]()
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