Blink -182 told the truth when he sang “the work is useless, I know.” The standard office settings in the white caller jobs working is a drag: fluorescent lighting, business casual clothes, sitting on the office chair for eight hours. This is something that is Apple TV+ Series Separation Understands deeply. The series also knows that sometimes, office intoxication can be improved with a little treatment – and what is better treatment than food?
In the show, now in its second season, employees are “deputed” to work in the city’s corporate overlord lumones, a mysterious company that is run by the omnipotent Egan family and the late founder Keer. This process divides people into two consciousnesses – people who work in the office and work in the real -world outs. For those who have not really touched the grass, food is a major encouragement. In the subtrenian office hall, there are vending machines with special snacks. Workers and teams who kill their quota can earn food parties.
Dan Ericheson, Manufacturer and Executive Maker SeparationDrawing his experiences working in corporate settings for the show. “I always thought that it was interesting to eat food – which is such a basic human need – used to encourage productivity,” they say. “There is something especially nefarious about it.” He remembers two minds about office food. On one hand, it is “Hey, come, you are making the blessings complicated, you cannot win me so easily.” On the other hand, “I really want that pizza.” Separation The duality takes emotions and enhances them into scenes that are more clearly unnecessary.
In the latest episode titled “Trojan Horse”, (Note: Season 2 Spiiler) Food is used as an attempt to please the macro data refining team, which is on the forced retirement of its collaborative Iving B (John Turtho) Unhappy and angry. , At a full funeral for Ini Worker, supervisor Miss Huang plays a carved role Black beauty watermelon The bust of Irving, which, was made of a real watermelon, was sour by the show’s props Master Catherine Miller. “Its blood-red interior, it almost looks as if it is made of meat,” says Ericson. “It made me too upset for me. This is so, Irving has gone and now we are eating it. The whole thing is harassing something, which I thought is being presented well with strange corporate pleasures. ,
While this is the first time the watermelon appears in the office, melons are actually omnipresent. Lumon’s office parties, productivity awards to retirement parties, always centers on melons – those omnipresent, often unwanted fruit plates. Ericson was inspired by the spread of fruits in his office jobs. “The most common thing was that there were many melons,” they say. “Green Forest, which has always been the most tasty for me, as you are eating air.” ,Bojack Horseman Agree he,
Important, none of the food Separation Looks delicious. But even though they are unexpected, these unstable “awards” get results. “For these characters who are in this island world, where they have no access to any food, except that it is provided by the company, it becomes almost a pavlovian thing where you cannot help but it can May be inspired, “Ericson explains.
Ericson sees something especially disturbing about fruit gifts. ,[With] How bad it is, this is a strange feeling of pressure to eat it, ”he says. He remembers that he was sent some fruit for his birthday, and when he is grateful to the present, he worried him: “The clock is standing, you better get it on it or it is spoiled.” Going to do.”
In the show, Lumon Supervisor Seth Milchik (Tramel Tilman) told the pineapple basket to “escape” for the real world for his priors (telling the outs ). Nevertheless it is a symbol of fruit – hospitality – purely philanthropist. “You have been given a task because it is not easy to break in pineapple,” says Ericson. When Milchic leaves those gifts, “he is giving a task, and it is thorny and uncomfortable, but people are grateful to it.”
And the behavior of lumones can be taken away quickly as they are handed over, underlining the company’s control over the short pleas available to the workers. During the outdoor retreat in season 2 episode “Wose Hall”, the team is presented with a comfortable camp fire S’Mores setup. During the evening, the team starts laughing at a story, Milchic has intended to take them seriously, and the dessert is thrown into the fire as a punishment. “Marshmallow is for the team players,” Milchik said during the scene. “They don’t just hand them out.”
Here too, the food looks unstable. The pile of confection has the face of Lumon founder Keer. “It is truly branded,” says Ericson.
At the end, Separation There is a show about humanity in the capitalist world and how to do people you want. And what is better equipment than food? “Food talks strange to us,” Ericson says. “It simply does.”
Food is necessary for people to survive, and it is a lumon swing carrot (to throw into a vegetable metaphor with fruit). But even when these workers are happily rewarded with satanic eggs and tasteless melons, they are being reminded of who is providing this so -called behavior: praise.
