Employee/boss status/relationship in the US

I'm just watching the Apple TV series Severance. And it's an extreme example of it, but it did make me think that so many US films and tv show this sort of dererence to authority. Like a higher job position is equal to higher status. You refer to your boss as 'Mr' or 'Mrs' whatever. And you are the lower, the subordinates.

And in the UK (in my experience) job titles don't really effect things in that way. Maybe in top corporate roles. But from what it seems, it is just a culture thing that is accepted. Is that really what it's like?

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OldBrit · 61-69, M

I'm a Brit and worked in UK all my career. But I did work 20 years for a large USA company and spent a lot of time there in a corporate environment even being seconded there for 9 months in an interim role.

OK. Mostly it was first name terms even with the CIO who I interacted with a lot. Most title deference I experienced was working in a university getting Dr vs Prof etc right when addressing many of them was important.