The computers on the show are functional, so when Mark and Helly are moving pixelated numbers around on a screen, that’s something the performers are doing on set. “When you see us, we really are refining numbers,” Adam Scott, who plays Mark and serves as a producer on the show, tells The Verge. “There is actually a way to do it.”

The return of the acclaimed drama, airing on Apple TV Plus from Friday January 17, focuses once again on Mark ( Parks and Recreation's Adam Scott) who, like many employees at Lumon, has chosen to have his work life surgically severed from his home life.

TV shows of 2022, if not the best. It gave audiences a chilling look into a world where employees can undergo “severance” which separates their work lives and personal lives. The work personality is an “innie” and its opposite an “outie.