How ‘Severance’ perfected its creepy, beautiful visual language

When we first meet Helly R., the indefatigable heroine of “Severance,” she’s splayed on a conference table in a windowless room carpeted in putrid shades of green. She awakens, for the first time, as an “innie” — someone who’s elected to sever their brain so that they can perform their work duties as a person separate from who they are out of the office — an extreme means of achieving work-life balance.