A Severance-inspired interactive episode about a corporate "sitter" program — mandatory AI pair programming taken to its dystopian extreme.
The Sitter is the second standalone episode in the presentation series, styled as a Severance-inspired corporate training module. The premise: your company has introduced a mandatory "Sitter" — an AI pair programmer that watches everything you do, in real-time, permanently.
It's framed as an onboarding video for new employees. The tone is aggressively corporate-positive — think Lumon Industries orientation material. "Your Sitter is here to help. Your Sitter cares about quality. Your Sitter never sleeps." The dissonance between the cheerful messaging and the surveillance reality is the point.
The characters are generated with Gemini Imagen 4.0 — photorealistic portraits with that slightly-too-perfect corporate headshot quality. The lead character Zoe Chen starts enthusiastic about the program and gradually realizes what it means. The visual style shifts from warm corporate colours to cold, desaturated tones as the reality sets in.
Like "Everyone Hates Jan," this is built to be presented live. The slides advance with narration, ambient audio creates atmosphere, and the audience experiences the tonal shift in real-time. It's a Trojan horse — they think they're watching a presentation about AI tools, and they end up in a Black Mirror episode.