'Severance' Was Partially Inspired by This Twisted Episode of 'Black Mirror'
Severance creator Dan Erickson has revealed that the Black Mirror episode "White Christmas" partially inspired the Apple TV+ series.
Severance and Black Mirror are kindred series in many ways. Both of them look at how technology could improve our lives, but also subvert our notion of humanity when taken to the extreme. The severance chip, for example, releases people from the burden of work, at the cost of enslaving parts of them that they never knew they had. This premise in itself could be an episode of Black Mirror, but, thankfully, Severance creator Dan Erickson managed to get a whole series out of it — which is not to say that there isn't much of the Netflix anthology series in the AppleTV+ drama. There's quite a lot, in fact, and Erickson himself has admitted to how influential Black Mirror was when developing Severance.
