Yes, You Can Visit the Actual Lumon Building from ‘Severance’

Have you ever felt drawn somewhere on the globe without fully understanding why? Like inside your soul, you have a need to go to that place to completely satisfy yourself.

Well, your outie might be remembering something your innie tucked deep away.

And if you have no idea what an innie or an outie is, you’ve come to the wrong place because this is an article about Severance.

Severance is an AppleTV show about severing your work brain and outside brain so that you lead two distinct lives. It was created by Dan Erickson and produced by Ben Stiller. Stiller also directs many of the episodes.

In the show, the characters work at a company called Lumon. While the company itself is fictional, the locations they use to shoot it exist in real life.

And people keep visiting and taking photos in the parking lot.

‘Severance’ CREDIT: Apple

The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex is located in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and doubles for all the exterior shots of the show. They make use of its lobby as well.

‘Severance’CREDIT: Apple

Developer Ralph Zucker runs the building now and spoke about the increase in foot traffic for people to see the building. He did an interview with Curbed where he said, “I have heard that we have a lot more people coming in and taking pictures of themselves in the space.” Zucker continued, We have a whole team that works on social media, and they’re inundated.”

Of course, people really work in that building every day. so if you’re going to make the trek, make sure to be respectful to the people and the places.

“We always understood that people would realize that this was not, you know, real life,” Zucker added. “Although Severance portrays the headquarters as this empty devoid-of-life space, in reality, we’re literally teeming with life.”

So if you go there, leave the real workers alone, but feel free to try to satiate the part of your brain that feels connected to the place by taking some pics outside.

I think this is also a great lesson for our readers about finding practical locations even for exteriors. It really helps boost the reality of the show and can make things feel eerily familiar.

Let me know what you think in the comments.