Homecoming

The sterile cubicles and coded memories of Severance find a chilling parallel in the clinical corridors of Homecoming, Amazon Prime’s unnerving dive into corporate memory manipulation. Instead of office workers getting their brains split in two, you’ve got Julia Roberts playing a caseworker at a facility that helps soldiers “adjust” back to civilian life. The plot twist is that the place is secretly drugging them to erase their memories so they can be redeployed without all that pesky PTSD. It’s super subtle at first, but you start picking up on the weirdness in certain moments—like when Walter (Stephan James), one of the soldiers, realizes his memories don’t quite add up anymore.

This will unquestionably give you Severance vibes, especially given how the characters slowly start questioning the system around them. And just like Lumon in Severance, the Geist Group hides all this shady stuff behind clean visuals and corporate lingo. Homecoming doesn’t have memory-splitting elevators, but the way it messes with identity and free will? Same energy. It begs the question: How much of yourself can you lose before you stop being you? That is very much in that Severance wheelhouse.