The pop-up began when a large glass box appeared in Grand Central's Vanderbilt Hall, containing a replica of the four-seated desk from Lumon's Macrodata Refinement department. Hired actors playing Lumon employees sat at their desks, doing Lumon things (by which I mean, sorting numbers while not having a clue what said numbers mean).

This is all happening ahead of the release of the second season of Severance, which is premiering on January 17 on Apple TV+. In the psychological thriller starring Adam Scott, John Turturro and Patricia Arquette, a company implants chips inside its employees' brains that basically split their personalities into at-work and outside-of-work ones.

John Turturro made an appearance in Zegna's fall/winter 2025 runway show during Milan Men's Fashion Week. See the surprising moment!

In the podcast's Jan. 15 episode, during which Stiller, Scott, and Turturro discussed Severance Season 1, episode 8, "What's for Dinner?," Turturro mentioned that the series had a "Kubrickian approach" to it.

Adam Scott, Britt Lower and Zach Cherry all appeared as their 'Severance' characters for the pop-art. Ben Stiller was on hand for pictures.

Severence Season 2’s infamous viral cast stunt at Grand Central Terminal seemed like any other pop-up, but turns out it is series canon.