From Industry to Severance, The Dropout to WeCrashed, a wave of workplace television in 2022 wrung drama out of jobs and our fraught attachments to them
, among others) all had the trappings of good television. A juicy story with proven interest, a loose parable of late-stage capitalism and illusory wealth, the baseline hook of judging an A-list actor’s transformation into a recognizable weirdo. But they were, for the most part, missing something vital. They conjured the offices of a just-past era with varying success .
More successful were The Bear and Severance, two of the most acclaimed new series of the year, both about fictional workplaces. In Severance, it’s Lumon Industries, a mysterious corporation able to perform a brain surgery that allows employees to fully separate their work selves from the rest of their consciousness. The employees in the Macrodata Refinement Division cannot know why their outer selves confined them to eight hours a day of smooth-brain office life .
Industry, like The Bear, is one of the few genuinely sexy shows on TV, though it delivers on actual sex and keeps its attractions entirely contained to the invisible ledgers of Pierpoint & Co. Every hookup, flirtation or charged look is a transaction of power, every emotional connection a potential bargaining chip.
If there is one uniting theme of workplace television in 2022, it’s that none of the characters in any of these shows would consider work-life balance to be a practical or relevant concept. The Bear’s staff is dedicated and sincere but tunnel-visioned, the bankers of Industry still employed by nature of their willingness to sacrifice. The founders of Silicon Valley unicorns were delusional to the point of ruin.
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