Severance: Explore Real-Life Locations That Built Lumon's World

2. Beacon, New York – Kier, the Lumon Company Town

The quaint, eerie town of Beacon, New York, serves as the stand-in for Kier, the fictional company town where Lumon Industries maintains an unsettling grip on daily life. This historic Hudson Valley town, with its Victorian architecture, tree-lined streets, and old-world charm, provides a subtly dystopian backdrop for the story, reinforcing themes of corporate control bleeding into employees’ personal lives. Many of Beacon’s older buildings and storefronts were carefully chosen for filming, subtly suggesting that Lumon’s influence extends far beyond the office. There’s a feeling that everything is just a little too perfect, that the town itself may be part of a larger corporate ecosystem, designed to maintain the illusion of normalcy for Lumon workers outside their severed office lives. Beacon’s small-town aesthetic contrasts sharply with the cold, brutalist interiors of Lumon, but rather than serving as an escape, it instead feels equally curated and artificial. This setting underscores the unsettling idea that true freedom might not exist for those under Lumon’s watchful eye, creating an atmosphere that is both picturesque and deeply ominous.