Apple TV+’s Severance has become a major streaming success, according to the article, after initially attracting limited attention when it launched. The workplace sci-fi thriller has since entered wider popular culture through its unsettling premise and growing audience interest, making it one of the platform’s most prominent series.

Created by Dan Erickson and executive produced by Ben Stiller, the series follows Mark Scout, played by Adam Scott, and other employees at Lumon Industries, where workers’ memories are surgically split between their professional and personal lives. As Mark uncovers increasingly disturbing information about the company, the separation between his two lives begins to break down; the cast also includes Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette and Dichen Lachman.