The week in TV: Severance; Marilyn Manson: Unmasked; Bump; Lucy Worsley Investigates… 1066 – review
Four-way love is in the air in the long-awaited return of Severance; the case against US shock rock star Marilyn Manson; Australia’s latest gem reaches full term; and Lucy Worsley looks King Harold in the eyeSeverance (Apple TV+)Marilyn Manson: Unmasked (Channel 4) | 4oDBump (BBC One) | iPlayerLucy Worsley Investigates… 1066 (BBC Two) | iPlayerThe return of the Apple TV+ thriller Severance after three years – it was delayed by factors including the Hollywood writers’ strikes – is a reminder that, for me, the first series took a while to “take”. In it, creator Dan Erickson devised a near-future scenario in which people choose to keep their work and home lives separate by having their brain surgically severed, the “innie” self existing only at the sinister Lumon corporation and kept in the dark about their “outie” self in the real world, and vice versa. Continue reading...
Four-way love is in the air in the long-awaited return of Severance; the case against US shock rock star Marilyn Manson; Australia’s latest gem reaches full term; and Lucy Worsley looks King Harold in the eye
Severance (Apple TV+)
Marilyn Manson: Unmasked (Channel 4) | 4oD
Bump (BBC One) | iPlayer
Lucy Worsley Investigates… 1066 (BBC Two) | iPlayer
The return of the Apple TV+ thriller Severance after three years – it was delayed by factors including the Hollywood writers’ strikes – is a reminder that, for me, the first series took a while to “take”. In it, creator Dan Erickson devised a near-future scenario in which people choose to keep their work and home lives separate by having their brain surgically severed, the “innie” self existing only at the sinister Lumon corporation and kept in the dark about their “outie” self in the real world, and vice versa. Continue reading...
