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Letter: Now for Severance: The documentary

Published 12 February 2025

From Maggie Cobbett, Ripon, North Yorkshire, UK

Like Bethan Ackerley, I am completely hooked by the TV drama series Severance. People I have discussed it with are mostly horrified by the concept of workers having their brains altered so their office/home life memories are strictly partitioned, but I confess that I can see the attractions (25 January, p 30).

While trying to balance the demands of work with those of a young family, I constantly worried that time necessarily given to either would be to the detriment of the other. The ability to switch off totally from one role when in the other might have been a blessing.

Issue no. 3530 published 15 February 2025

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