Starring A-listers Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation), Patricia Arquette (The Act), and Christopher Walken (Deer Hunter), Severance is certainly intended to be unsettling, and the series is by no means a children's show. However, "scary" is a funny word to describe the mind-bending show.

"Severance doesn’t exactly go in a horror direction, though, and that restraint is aided by director Ben Stiller and cinematographer Jessica Lee Gagné, who gave the miniseries Escape at Dannemora such chilling, fraught tension," Vulture's Roxana Hadadi wrote of the new show. If anything, it seems as though Severance aims to spoof the often boring life of corporate office workers. In other words, Severance has all the ingredients of a dark, even creepy satire.

Unless the idea of an exaggerated bleak, cold-looking office, lobotomy-like procedures, and existentialism petrify you to the point where you have to cover your peepers, Severance doesn't serve any bone-chilling scares. But given its TV-MA rating, primarily due to language and violence, kiddos should probably stay away from Severance.