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Severance

The Lack

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Patricia Arquette's Seference

Patricia Arquette plays a character called Harmony Cobell, who is a kind of manager. She's fully signed up to the kind of Kia ideology, which is a strange version of Marxism and self-help. And it's very imagistically communistic, very productive, kind of fantasy. So there's one aspect, you know, the cult of work in the kind of 19th century way. But she also plays a very maternal figure in the outside world. It flits unbelievably well, I think, between this kind of incredibly harsh, domineering kind of work persona - but has her own issues with bosses.

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