When Tramell Tillman’s smiling, happy-go-lucky (at least on the surface) Mr. Milchick makes his first formal appearance in the cryptic “Severance” pilot to escort Mark (Adam Scott) to Ms. Cobel’s (Patricia Arquette) new office, it’s hard to believe that somebody in his position could ever let doubts creep in.
But as the show continues, Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller’s workplace drama reveals additional layers to the levels of submission on the severed floor, which some of the actual Lumon employees are expected to internalize just as much with the secretive, hush-hush nature of the board. And in a cold, isolated world, Tillman infuses humor, intense energy and unspoken depth
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