Praise Kier! If you’ve watched Severance, you’ve seen Innie Mark become obsessed with his Outie’s brother-in-law’s self-help book, The You You Are, so much so that it becomes the spark that inspires the Innies to break out at the end of season one.
If you want more of Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD’s pablum, Apple has got you covered: You can now read the first eight chapters of the book for free!
You can download an excerpt of the book—or the audiobook!—by following the link here.
Here’s the book’s blurb, for your enjoyment:
In his quinquennial tome, Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD guides You on a brave journey of self-learnedness. Fertile with mind-engorging insights, The You You Are is an invitation to merge with your true “You,” and expel from your essence the dead-eyed conventionalism that has defined your life since infancy.
I highly recommend the audiobook version of The You You Are; it’s about an hour long and it’s read by Ricken himself (actor Michael Chernus) and delivered with the insipid gravitas that you’d expect. What a joy.
The cover of The You You Are is also a delight, sporting a serious-looking Ricken and giving a nod to two of his other works: My Own Petard and Life of an American Gadfly, both of which, I’m sure, are life-changing reads.
Season two of Severance is now streaming on Apple TV+. You can catch Reactor’s spoiler-full recaps of the series here.
