Throw a Music Dance Expertise for Adam Scott, he can predict the long run – form of.
A principle goes viral amongst “Severance” followers that Adam Scott’s “Parks and Recreation” character, Ben Wyatt, “predicted” the present hit sci-fi drama that Scott now stars in years later.
In a viral publish, one fan meme account identified that within the 2014 “Parks and Recreation” episode “Farmer’s Market,” Ben suggests to his spouse, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) that they chorus from speaking about work outdoors of the workplace.
“Maybe it would be good to keep our home life and our work life separate. Like we only talk about work stuff when we’re at city hall, like a firewall system,” he says.
The episode aired in 2014, however followers are noticing that it’s eerily near the premise of “Severance.”
One Reddit consumer shared the clip and captioned it, “Adam Scott’s character coming up with the idea of ‘Severance’ a decade ago.’”
“Stiller and Erickson are trolling the heck out of us all,” one Reddit consumer joked, referring to Ben Stiller, who exec produces the present and directs many episodes, and creator Dan Erickson.
“Dan Erickson STOLE HIS IDEA,” one other fan joked concerning the “Severance” creator.
Presently airing Season 2 (new episodes out Fridays on AppleTV+), “Severance” is a sci-fi thriller following staff at a mysterious biotech firm known as Lumon.
Mark (Scott), Helly (Britt Decrease), Dylan (Zach Cherry) and Irving (John Turturro) are all “severed,” which implies they’ve chips of their brains separating their “home” selves from their “work” selves. Outdoors of the workplace, they haven’t any reminiscences of what they do at work, and vice versa.
The present has layers of mysteries about what Lumon is actually doing.
Speaking to The Submit in January earlier than Season 2 premiered, Scott 51, stated “I know essentially the answers” to most of the plot questions.
However whilst wild fan theories fly round, viewers gained’t discover Scott visiting the Reddit boards.
“I’ve heard some of them,” he stated. “But I don’t jump in and really explore them myself.”
“Parks and Recreation” can also be a present about staff in an workplace, nevertheless it’s a comedy fairly than a sci-fi thriller field present.
As “Severance” followers identified, in “Parks and Recreation,” Ben additionally makes a claymation challenge that reveals a claymation man sitting up in mattress – a visible that additionally seems within the “Severance” Emmy successful opening credit score sequence.
“Ben Wyatt finally did it!” one other fan joked on Reddit, referring to the claymation.
In January, Cherry advised The Submit concerning the present’s mysteries, “We certainly know some things. And sometimes I’ll watch the show and go, ‘I didn’t even know that that was what we were doing!’”
Turturro, whose character Irving is in love with Burt (performed by Christopher Walken), advised The Submit, “Chris [Walken] has asked me at times like, ‘What the hell is going on here?’”
Tuturro added, “And I just go, ‘Listen — we’re into each other. Just say your lines to me, and I’ll say my lines to you.’ And sometimes he gets confused with the whole thing.”
