Last year, Variety and the rest of the PMC brands moved to a beautiful new building on Olympic Boulevard right off Sawtelle. This is the kind of fancy office — complete with a gym, pickleball courts and a barbecue station — that real estate agents like to call a “campus.” The name of our building: Lumen.

If you’re chuckling, I know that’s because you’re a fan of Apple TV+’s “ Severance ,” where the creepy Lumon Industries has its own large, mysterious campus. And like that Lumon, our Lumen is meant to keep employees fulfilled — and never really wanting to leave. If that’s not coincidental enough, try this on: “Severance” producers Fifth Season also recently moved into Lumen. You can’t write this stuff!

Or can you? I decided to invite “Severance” creator Dan Erickson to visit Lumen fi

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