In case you didn't make it The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott Part of your weekly plan that you're missing out on Severance pay Easter eggs that might change your perception of some of the series' most memorable moments. After revealing this Apple didn't want Adam Scott in the show, and that the Original pilot script While Helly R and Mark S's origin stories were swapped, executive producer/director Stiller now explains how the famous dance sequence in the first season surprised more than just the audience.
In the seventh episode of the first season, aptly titled “Defiant Jazz,” Helly (Britt Lower) and the team at Macrodata Refinment receive what supervisor Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman) called “The Music Dance Experience” as a reward for achieving a provides a completion benchmark for work we don't yet know about. What followed is one of the most indelible sequences in the show's short history: the normally stoic Milchick dances under Technicolor lighting as if he's been transported back to the '70s, with Quaaludes controlling his limbs. The undisguised joy and exuberant dancing was shocking in a place where handshaking only occurred upon formal request. It also shocked the people who made the show.
“We had a choreographer come in, but basically Tramell just went and said, 'I have a few ideas.' I have some thoughts.' Then they just showed me this dance that he came up with,” Stiller says jokingly.
Lumon workstations are typically monotonous, mundane, and only feature four interconnected cubicles. Stopping this silliness seven episodes into the season added a slightly chilling lightness that makes the bleakness of the characters' everyday lives more apparent. That's because every detail in the show seems to be carefully arranged, right down to the lights used in the scene, which Stiller hoped wouldn't “destroy the reality” of the show.
The surprise on the Innies' faces when the lights started changing colors highlighted the strangeness of the scenario and was quite real. “We didn’t know the lights were going to change until we shot the scene,” Scott reveals.
There are only two episodes left for the podcast to break down. They will also share news about the new season of Severance pay as each episode airs. Let's hope we get some answers about these damn goats at some point.
