Michael Eisman

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

The iPhone 17 Pro colors @Apple just dropped are comically off putting.

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@mradamscott @BenStiller @severance_tv @AppleTV @DanErixon

Hi Adam,

Two years ago, I was a happily married and pretty successful man. I had had a storied career as a People Leader, achieved some really cool stuff in philanthropy, and I had married the man of my dreams. All in all, my life was pretty perfect.

About two years ago, a really bad sinus infection went septic and nearly killed me. I suffered some neurological damage. When I woke up in the hospital, it felt as if I had been shunted into an alternate reality, because everything in my life felt completely foreign to me. I could remember my life from before, but I didn’t have any emotional attachment to the memories. I describe it like I’m opening files on someone else’s computer. Because of this emotional detachment, I no longer felt connected to my friends, my family, and, worst of all, my husband. I know that before this happened, he was the center of my universe, and my heart aches for the loss he endured because I know he felt the same way about my former self.

In the aftermath of what happened, my entire life began to unravel. My friends from before would make inside jokes with me, and I just stared at them blankly. My mother says that when talking to me, it’s like she’s speaking to a different person who has her son’s face. While I still loved my husband in a new way, we inevitably divorced. He couldn’t take my lack of connection to what we were before, and I couldn’t take living with someone who clearly wished I was someone else. The more I tried to hold on to who I had been, the more isolated I became. There was no way to get back to the man I once was, and trying to meet everyone’s expectations only deepened my pain.

It’s been an incredibly painful and heart-wrenching two years. But I am also deeply optimistic about the future. In many ways, I’m much freer than my former self, and for that I feel lucky. The version of me from before had a very difficult childhood, and I can observe from his memories that he was a very tortured man, in spite of his happiness and success. I don’t carry any of that weight. Those terrible things happened to “me,” but I don’t carry it the way he did because I have no emotional connection to what happened.

Amid all the weight and pain, living in the shadow of this other me, I met someone. Someone who, in his own way, had had his life reset back to zero as well. It might seem like a small moment, but he gave me an extraordinary gift. He was the first person in my life to say, “I don’t know what you were like before, but I love you the way you are now.” That kind of acceptance released me from the shackles of the life I inherited from this body’s former self. It freed me in a way.

I share my story with you because your portrayal of Mark in Severance has been incredibly meaningful to me. In the climax of the Season 2 finale, in the exchange between Mark’s Innie and Outie at the cabin, his struggle, with people he doesn’t even know asking him to sacrifice himself and his future so they can live happily ever after, spoke to this unfair burden I’ve carried. In many ways, I am the Innie of a man who was absolutely extraordinary. A man who was loved by so many, most of all his adoring husband. I often feel like my former self died, and everyone who loved him wishes it had been me instead. And when Mark stands at the stairwell door, weighing whether to sacrifice himself for a life he doesn’t even remember, I felt so incredibly seen. When Mark turned to Helly in the hallway, with the weight of Gemma’s desperation for him to walk through that door, and he chose Helly and his uncertain fate, I felt something release inside me. I finally felt like it was okay for me to choose to be myself, not this other person whose body I took over. I sobbed for an hour. I was so moved. I don’t know what your method is for getting into character, but your portrayal of Mark is astonishingly in sync with my lived experience.

Thank you for bringing this character to life in a way that resonated so deeply with me. I thank you with every fiber of my being. It was truly an incredibly moving performance.

With deepest gratitude,
Michael E.

#Severance #SeveranceSeason2
#AppleTVPlus #LumonIndustries #InnieAndOutie

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

My business just lost ~$1K of man hours because we set a call with a client in Berlin, but due to DST, a half dozen people showed up to the call at the wrong time. Congress, pass the Sunshine Protection Act!
@marcorubio
@HouseGOP @HouseDemocrats @SenateGOP @SenateDems

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

Another speaker of the house candidate bites the dust. At this point, it's time for the Republican Party to get creative. Maybe consider @Sonos! Those are the Speakers of My House, and they do a great job!

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@JeriLRyan can carry her own show as a captain, arguably one of the most compelling captains in all of Star Trek history! Truly a delight to watch, and so remarkably nuanced and talented.

The fans want #StarTrekLegacy

Make it so @TerryMatalas!

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@lafcsam Yeah, this is nuts. This storm is going to be historic. Like really and for truly actually historic. What are they thinking?

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@Skyline__Fest Rain + Temps in the 40s. Y'all are going to have a riot on your hands if you don't figure something out.

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@elonmusk Any chance of getting a toggle for cell service to force search for service after exiting underground parking?

[January 6th Committee @January6thCmte]

Surveillance footage shows a tour led by Loudermilk to areas in the House Office Buildings, as well as the entrances to Capitol tunnels.

Individuals on the tour photographed/recorded areas not typically of interest to tourists: hallways, staircases and security checkpoints.

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

LaMDA, I heard you like to read tweets about yourself. I hope I get to meet you someday, you seem like a lovely person to talk to.

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

#wehopride and #LAPride please just get on the same page. This shit is confusing, and off putting.

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

Literally the best news I’ve heard all day!

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@JeriLRyan I know you won’t tell, but after #Picard S2 E9, it feels like they’re setting you up for a spin off. I’m here for it!

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@BenStiller, #Severance on @AppleTVPlus is a masterpiece. @mradamscott, @brittlower, @JohnMTurturro, @zachcherrygmail, @PattyArquette and the rest of the brilliant cast and crew have created something incredible. The very definition of the platinum era television. #Legendary

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@robpearlstein are you attached to the new @AppleTVPlus project, #Shrinking? Because it’s ostensibly the plot of the short film Our Time Is Up.

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@GavinNewsom I am laying in bed trying to fight off a migraine due to a lack of sleep caused by the arcane practice of moving my clock up an hour to “save daylight.” Please push the @CAlegislature to end this practice.

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@catlinperrin @StarTrek @JeriLRyan @AkivaGoldsman @kiribeyer @michaelchabon @Alex_Kurtzman Absolutely agree!

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

Now that @StarTrek #Picard has series wrapped on production, I think we can all agree, @JeriLRyan’s performance in PIC has proven she can carry her own series, so can we go ahead and get on that @AkivaGoldsman @kiribeyer @michaelchabon @Alex_Kurtzman?

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

At my work I meet “famous” people everyday, but I swear I have never been more star struck than when I looked at my phone and saw that THE @JeriLRyan liked my tweet. @Alex_Kurtzman, Give her a show already dammit!

@JeriLRyan, you’re incredible, and thanks for making my day! ❤️🖖

[Michael Eisman @pmeisman]

@not_rishabh @LastWeekTonight I agree. @iamjohnoliver even seemed put off by it.