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

8. Red Hook Grain Terminal – Brooklyn, New York (Surreal Warehouse Sequences)

The Red Hook Grain Terminal, an abandoned industrial complex in Brooklyn, serves as one of Severance’s most visually surreal and psychologically unsettling locations. This massive concrete structure, once a bustling part of New York’s shipping industry, has long been left to decay, creating a space that feels both forgotten and oddly frozen in time—the perfect parallel to Lumon’s own twisted, outdated corporate environment. With its towering silos, darkened hallways, and crumbling infrastructure, the Red Hook Grain Terminal becomes a physical manifestation of corporate neglect and abandonment. It enhances the show’s themes of lost humanity, psychological imprisonment, and the eerie remnants of a bygone era, where workers were once treated as expendable parts of a machine—a fate the employees at Lumon know all too well. The warehouse’s empty vastness and echoing silence give it an almost dreamlike, otherworldly quality. Within Severance, the space is filmed with soft lighting and slow, disorienting camera movements, making it feel detached from reality—as though the characters are walking through a half-forgotten memory, rather than a physical location. The juxtaposition of industrial decay and the cold sterility of Lumon’s corporate world makes the Red Hook Grain Terminal feel timeless and inescapable, reinforcing the show’s haunting vision of an oppressive, all-consuming workplace.