Adam Scott in "Severance," now streaming on Apple TV .

If you somehow haven’t got around to watching it yet, you may not know that Severance, an Apple TV original is a dystopian TV series which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated.

While this premise may seem a little far-fetched, on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the first season of Severance has an approval rating of 97% and the second season sits at a very impressive 96% approval rating.

Perhaps the reason that it is resonating with audiences and critics alike is that actually, it’s not as far-fetched as you may think...

“Split-brain” surgery has been around since the 1940s

This surgery, also known as ‘Corpus callosotomy’ was initially introduced in the 1940s to treat people with epilepsy and try to minimise the impact of seizures on patients.

Great Ormond Street Hospital explains the procedure, saying: “A corpus callosotomy is an operation which divides the corpus........

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