Severance addresses America's "huge" work-life balance problem, production designer says

Severance's production designer, Jeremy Hindle,  says the show explores the issues with America's work-life balance.

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00:00It was interesting because I wanted the show to be timeless.

00:04I didn't want anyone to really know where it was and when it was.

00:08Especially underground, you know, in MDR, the main set,

00:12we wanted the technology to really be quite confusing.

00:16It's all functional, but if any was to escape to the outside world

00:20and could describe it, it would make no sense.

00:22Like, my son doesn't know what a trackball is.

00:24My daughter, they don't know what this tech is.

00:26But now it's kind of funny, now they're all fascinated,

00:28and now they all want these damn keyboards.

00:30And it's kind of fun.

00:32It was also to make it really playful.

00:36There was a movie Playtime that I loved from the 60s

00:38and I kind of threw that at Ben.

00:40Like, what if we just make the show playful

00:42along with this really interesting story that Dan wrote,

00:46which is really about the work-life balance,

00:48which is a huge problem right now.

00:50Like, how do you go to work and go home?

00:52And because of this damn iPhone we all have, or technology,

00:56it's 24 hours a day.

00:57It was like, how do we make this fun

00:59to also talk about something that's really important?

01:01How to set boundaries?

01:03Thank you, I think.

01:04I'll call to talk