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Academics Talk About the Chair: Season One
Professor Inga Muberne and her twin sister Anitra Nottingham are obsessed with Severance. The dystopian sci-fi series is set in an alternative now where workers can opt to have their work self and their home self psychologically split. To make the same sounding voice thing a little less weird, we've invited a current or former workmate along for each episode. We'll also zoom in on the office politics in Severance and connect it to our own histories of workplace dramas. Because we're obsessed with the only academic character in the show Rickin, we have a section called Rickin Watch - his doings for that episode. And finally we wallow in the beauty of the show