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Severance: Back to the sci-fi workplace where you literally sell your soul

Severance: Back to the sci-fi workplace where you literally sell your soul

! Spoiler warning for season two's opening episode ! In series two, we see how Lumon's disorientatingdezorientujący, unforgivingbezwzględny corporate culturekultura korporacyjna and its deceptivezwodniczy pleasantries affects those with power too. Floor managers Milchick and newly-demoted Harmony become victims as well as enforcers.

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Arquette, who won an Oscarzdobyła Oscara for Richard Linklater's 2014 film Boyhood, says her character is "furiouswściekły" that the corporation, in demotingdegradacja her, has failed to recogniseuznać her loyalty.

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Tillman similarly adds that whilst it is unclear whether Milchick betrayed Harmony, he bears a "heavy responsibility" on his shouldersnosi "ciężką odpowiedzialność" na swoich barkach. As her replacement, he must now both placateudobruchać the innies and please a board who "do not understand what it takes to do the jobnie rozumieją, co jest potrzebne do wykonania pracy".

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Unlike Scott, Tillman worked in corporate office roles prior to becoming an actor and landing his breakthroughprzełomowy role as company man Milchick. He says he was never as "arrogant or ambitious" as his character, but admits to occasionally being "adventurous" in navigating office politicsporuszanie się w polityce biurowej. This either worked well or, sometimes, landed himwpędziło go "flat on my faceponieść porażkę".

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Tillman equally recognises Milchick's isolatedodosobniony experience as the sole black managerial figure. Steering clear of spoilersunikając spoilerów, he says we begin to understand Milchick's experience of being "otheredtraktowany jako inny by the company he serves".

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"It really speaks to how some organisations and some corporations, in their attempt to be inclusiveinkluzywny, miss the boatprzegapić okazję," he adds.

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Arquette continues: "I feel every few years there's a new doctrinedoktryna throughout the corporate spaceprzestrzeń korporacyjna - some kind of PR switcharoozmiana strategii PR [about] how to be current and different than we were in the past.

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"I think a lot of times things do need to change, but sometimes it doesn't really feel genuineautentyczny."

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Anyone for a melonmelon party?

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Severance, season two, will streamtransmitować weekly on Apple TV from 17 January.

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