Severance is highly regarded as a detail-oriented series.

Explanation: In Good News About Hell, the show introduces Judd, a security guard who sits outside the elevator to the Severed Floor, with a retro-styled flip clock right above his desk. The same composition of his desk is shown twice during episode one, the first time when Mark is heading in^[1] and another when he is leaving.^[2] In the second instance where the clock is showing 05:25, it appears to be slightly tilted upward on its right side.

Explanation: Severed employees’ entrances and exits are staggered, as revealed in the first and second episodes.^[3][4] As Mark enters the Main Lobby, he is greeted by the receptionist, also known as Florence, who then makes a call before allowing him to proceed to the Severed Access area. During this time, there are a few camera cuts between the receptionist and Mark, and upon close examination of the frames, as the GIF above shows, the time elapsed seems to be much longer than intended.

It is possible that this was done on purpose to illustrate a severed person’s damaged perception of time. However, comparing the time Mark leaves his car after glancing at his wristwatch to when he arrives at the Severed Floor shows that only four minutes have passed, lending credence to the idea that this may have been a continuity error.

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Explanation: (1) In the first image, Guam(GU) in the list of US states is missing a space before the opening parenthesis;^[5] (2) in the second image, “training manual” is misspelled as training nanual;^[6] (3) In the third image, the note to the trainer should read, “The trainee is disoriented and will want to know your identity. Do not disclose this. Disregard their question.^[7]

There are also various examples of comma misuse or omission

Explanation: In the text next to Sevy, there is an extra article (the) in the second sentence: We know you may be curious about the what the numbers mean.^[8]

Explanation: This excerpt from The You You Are’s ninth chapter, titled “The Quitting Bell,” uses question marks in the wrong way. In the second paragraph, the following sentence does not require a question mark at the end: Imagine, for instance, if our tragic concessions worker awoke one day, and instead of coming in for his shift, simply said “No?” It should end with a period. In the next sentence, a question mark is well needed; however, the placement of it is incorrect. According to American style guides, such as The Associated Press Stylebook or The Chicago Manual of Style, the question mark and exclamation point go within the quotation marks only when they apply to the quoted matter. They are placed outside when they apply to the whole sentence. The sentence should read, What if, when someone asked him for Lalabees, his answer was a firm and confident “no”?

Petey’s map is shown up-close a few times, once when Mark discovers it for the first time^[11] and at another point in a later episode when he is looking at it in a bathroom stall.^[12] Comparing the two closely reveals that they are not the same, as shown in the GIF image above.