{"id":12002,"date":"2022-08-10T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/10\/apple-wont-even-tell-ben-stiller-how-many-of-you-are-watching-severance\/"},"modified":"2022-08-10T14:38:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:38:18","slug":"apple-wont-even-tell-ben-stiller-how-many-of-you-are-watching-severance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/10\/apple-wont-even-tell-ben-stiller-how-many-of-you-are-watching-severance\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple won\u2019t even tell Ben Stiller how many of you are watching Severance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23298275\/apple-severance-ben-stiller-ratings-viewers-emmys<\/a>
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There\u2019s no doubt that Severance <\/em>is a hit \u2014 the show\u2019s first season made our best entertainment of 2022 list<\/a> even as it \u201cpaints the darkest possible portrait of how megacorporations think about and treat their employees.\u201d For a real-life example of that treatment, all you have to ask is what happens<\/a> when the people who make Severance <\/em>ask Apple how big of a hit it really is.<\/p>\n

In a bit of frustration that will feel familiar to anyone who has tried to figure out what Apple means when touting the performance of its custom ARM processors<\/a>, it turns out that even Ben Stiller, the executive producer and director of Severance<\/em>, couldn\u2019t get hold of detailed data on how many people are watching. Here\u2019s what he said in an interview with Decider<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t tell you the numbers. It\u2019s really weird. So, you get these graphs and charts, like I said, that have like peaks and valleys. But you don\u2019t know what the baseline is. I guess could be like, based on 100 people or could be like, 200 million people. We don\u2019t know. They basically say, \u2018Yeah, this is doing well.\u2019 You\u2019re trying to interpret what they\u2019re saying.\u201d<\/p>\n