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Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast

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The Severance Jargon in Episode 1

This is the cold open of Episode 1. It takes a second to key in on what you're seeing. Since production designer Jeremy Hindel and series creator Dan Erickson have both referred to this imagery as being like a womb, I'm going with table as womb. cinematographer Jessica Liganye said they had to get right up to the ceiling in order to get this shot. Even without the womb imagery, directors still are like the idea of the overhead as an establishing shot. He says he uses overhead shots sparingly because they make such a big statement but this one was important.

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