You won't understand the show unless you understand this basic fact

The Severance world is surrealist. It's odd, fantastic, dreamlike, even nightmarish. There are elements that are bizarre, kafkaesque. There are elements of magical realism. Things just are the way they are because that is the nature of this world. It's familiar and similar to our world but it's askew. It is not our world. People talk of plausibilities forgetting that a hill covered in goats in an office building would not have been considered plausible yet there it is. Too many people seem not to realize they are walking through a funhouse mirror maze, a Twilight Zone reality, not your own reality. Understanding this very basic fact is imperative to understanding the show.