Before ‘Severance,’ Ben Stiller Made This Critically Acclaimed 89% RT True-Crime Thriller Now Leaving Netflix

Many viewers may agree that Severance has been Ben Stiller’s magnum opus as a director, but it was far from his first impressive series that he was behind. Before writer Dan Erickson arrived on the scene with the eerie and strange anti-capitalist series, Stiller helmed the limited Showtime show, Escape at Dannemora. Inspired by the true events of the upstate New York prison break, the series follows David Sweat (Paul Dano) and Richard “Hacksaw” Matt (Benicio del Toro) in their TheShawshank Redemption-esque bid to find freedom.