
The sci-fi thriller “Severance” is about an enigmatic, cultlike company and its “severed” employees, whose brains have been surgically divided into an “innie” work consciousness and an “outie” home one. The show itself has a kind of bifurcated existencepapainoelpg, becoming Apple TV+’s most popular series ever while inspiring fans in the non-TV world to spin fanciful theories — some of which have been borne out — and otherwise wallow in its imagery and mysteries.
One of the most colorful examples of this happened on Friday at the venue Assembly, in Kingston, N.Y., as the series closed out its second season. The owners of two area restaurants that served as filming locations in the series, Phoenicia Diner and Eng’s, a Chinese restaurant in downtown Kingston, co-hosted a watch party there for the season finale; it included costumes, dance-offs, themed snacks and other “Severance”-related festivities.
An unsevered photographer was inside to document all the choreography and merriment for The New York Times. Please try to enjoy each photo equally, and not show preference for any over the others.
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But the first two days of a formal hearing by a Coast Guard panel into the disaster, which began Monday, have raised basic questions about that grim conclusion and taken detailed testimony that supports an unsensational finding.
“They took materials that came into my possession approximately 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department,” Mr. Donlon said in a news release issued by the department shortly after 11 p.m. “This is not a department matterpapainoelpg, and the department will not be commenting.”