Years ago, the Pohjois-Karjalan company Lacalvelu Ky abbreviated its name to Lumon. ‘Separation’ has made it a problem

There are several and inevitable crosses from ‘Separation‘, the current success of the labor dystopia of Apple TV+with real life. As the real physical location of that nightmare ode to corporate brutalism that are the offices of the series of the series, Lumon. Or Lumon’s own name, which he shares with some authentic business that he has had to say that they are not planting chips in anyone’s head.

Why we are obsessed with Lumon. If there is someone who has not hooked on the series of mystery and science fition of Apple TV+, its starting point is simple: a company of last purposes unknown (although they do not smell well) poses to some of its employees a total division of work and leisure: after a surgical intervention, its self that works will not remember anything about its life outside, and its self will not remember anything about work. Pure labor literalness for everyone who makes a job from 8 to 18, and that in the series is reinforced by aseptic and enigmatic visual presence of the synthetic and retro lumon offices. He is not surprising that fans have obsessed with her.

The real lumon. There is already one Real lumon which is dedicated to “getting more space to live turning terraces and wasteful balconies in inspiring and versatile glazed spaces. Lumon has more than one million satisfied customers worldwide.” Come on, a common terraces glazing company. And they are not doing badly: in 2022 193 million euros entered and have more than 1,300 employees. Its origins are in 1978 in Finland, under the name of Pohjois-Karjalan Asticvelu Ky, where they were in charge of all kinds of renovations until in 1990 they focused on glazing.

Lumon is going well. Currently, Lumon has two offices in North America, both in Canada, and work in more than twenty countries, including Spain. However, their international fame has not prevented them from having to publish on their website a kind of disclaimer in which they explain the differences between Lumon Group, the glazing, and Lumon Industries, their evil twins in Apple TV+. “We have the same name as the antagonistic corporation of one of the largest series of streaming of all time, “they say.” But there the similarities end. “

Lumon of ‘separation’ does exist. In fact, Lumon has a very specific physical presence, which was located by photography director Jessica Lee Gagné after reviewing dozens of Malls abandoned It was an abandoned office building called Bell Labs (by Bell Telephone Laboratories, the research arm of the AT&T telecommunications colossus), in Holmdel, a rural New Jersey area. Currently the center has been reformed and, of course, it has become a pilgrimage center for fans and influencers.

Lumon Superstar. We have spent weeks talking about very very finance of Apple TV+: Your waste with blockbusters like ‘Argylle‘or’ Wolfs’ has led him to paralyze his intentions to become a Major Hollywood. However, in the niche of streaming Something better: ‘Separation’ has already confirmed third seasonand ‘Ted Lasso’ Go back with a fourthwhich can convert the Apple platform into the cultured series factory par excellence.

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