Severance

u need to atleast get to the crust kino

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First season of Severance is good until it fell part tonally and turned into a weird goofy mess. My friend was talking about how she cried on s2e8 then said the s2 finale was great because it was goofy and the show has 'always been goofy'. So if it follows the retardation of a woman that should give you a hint.

Dario

It's only good when Helly is onscreen

I WONDER HOW WELL HER BLOOD SHOWS UNDER THAT LIGHT

Pic related was fun at least

The only reason to keep watching is if you like the characters when they're in the office. Mark is the only one you see outside of work in the first season, mostly, and he's a boring asshole
You'd expect profound observations about identity vs memory, but it never comes. Not so far anyway.
If you want a more thoughtful show with similar themes, try Maniac.
If you like Helly so far, Man Seeking Woman is a surreal comedy show starring the same actress.

Ep 4 is based in part (office stuff) and unbearably cringe in the other part (out of office stuff)
That might be the time to decide if you want to press on

It's a clever concept served poorly by amateurish writing, propped up by great production values and mostly great acting.
I don't think the writers are good enough to serve the concept.

You'd expect profound observations about identity vs memory, but it never comes.

Except it does, they even have it spelled out for you in Episode 5 but I guess when you spend most of your time staring at your phone or outright skip episodes it goes right over your head. They should've repeated it 5000 times for subhuman trash like you.

Emma Stone deserves to have her larynx crushed with a brick

it's not Anon Babble's job to convince you to watch a show you weird asshole, either stick with it or don't

It's not that there aren't any observations on it, they just aren't really profound ones. The show could be a lot deeper than it is.
I still like the show fwiw, I just wish they had the balls to heavily lean into the psychological aspect. It's there, but it's mostly surface level.

It’s fine but Ben Wyatt from Parks and Rec can’t carry a show. He takes me right out of every scene.

I agree with the lack of profundity. It's a pity. They've kind of gone all in on a pretty dull "two people in one body" interpretation, though Helly seems to be viewing it differently. I do still like the show and we'll see what they can do next season

This could have been another Season 1 of Westworld, but it lacks ambition.

It makes more sense if you watch the episodes the way they chronologically happen in universe

watch a 10 minute video recap on YouTube
the show has an interesting premise but it has the most boring and snooze inducing pacing I've experienced in a long time

then do the same with season 2 so you can chat about it with your friends and/or coworkers

What did you think of the story so far?

Makes me think of Dollhouse or The Prisoner

I liked the spec version where Helly was a severed child worker and Mark was the new guy

Looks Albanian

He claimed to be Italian but I don't trust him

tvwriting.co.uk/tv_scripts/2021/Drama/Severance_1x01_-_Mister.pdf

Helly, 19, has been severed since she was 16, in charge of the group because she's worked there the longest

Irving, 65, low functioning autistic giant, the most talented of the refiners. Helly looks after him.

Dylan, 40, vaguely diseased looking, despite a sense of swagger

Mark, 35, disoriented new hire, former college professor, unaware that he is fleeing despair over his wife having divorced him

Harmony Cobel, 40, prim and motherly, in charge of all severed workers. Lives on the outskirts of town with her strange, frail daughter. Experiments on severed animals. Takes a special interest in Mark. She reports to a voice at the end of a dark corridor, deep inside the office building.

Frank Milchick, manager of the refiners, cheerful yet intimidating. Eager to please Ms Cobel but never succeeding

Petey, Mark's predecessor. Something happened, and he's gone. Helly helped him leave somehow.

Devon, Mark's sister, and her self-help author husband Ricken, exactly like in the show.

vaguely diseased looking, despite a sense of swagger

So they kept that as well, huh

If you're one of those 'nothing happens' type people, the show's driving plot does not actually start until episode 7 of 9, then continues into season 2, where it suddenly goes on pause for episodes 7 and 8, though you should watch episode 7 anyway but you won't as you have the attention span of a child.

Both seasons are dog shit reddit-core. You're just so desperate for a mystery you'll watch this shit but it will never go anywhere. You will just sink time learning little bits of dweeby "lore" about ugly ass old actors playing unlikeable characters in another boring, Jewish made setting and production.

35 year old with a 19 year old

ERRRMM police???

Zoom zooms are retarded.

Irving, 65, low functioning autistic giant, the most talented of the refiners. Helly looks after him.

Here's a viewing guide

Season 1 is good
Season 2 also has stuff (Cobel episode aside) but moves at an unreasonably sluggish pace which I think is why people don't like it as much

Yeah it was only very mildly good. It was just about good enough to make me not drop it.
It shows how garbage the tv and movie industry is today that this is what passes as one of the best shows on tv : something only barely watchable.
However even then i skipped past boring scenes like the ones with the two old faggots and played most scenes on 2x speed except for the good scenes.

the finale of season 1 was pretty good but they can't really top that and season 2 mainly just feels like they're treading water and don't have anywhere else to go

*Also has good stuff
Lol
Anyway people that need to be told how to watch a 19 episode show are faggots

Mr Milkshake!

What is it now Helly?

Mark is sexualizing me again

harsh but fair.

skipping content for must-watch episodes

viewing guide

What the fuck?
Do you have ADHD like a braindead TikTok addicted zoomer who can’t pay attention for more than a few minutes?

Watch the episodes in order like every normal human being would and if you don’t like it then drop it. What the fuck is wrong with you?

She's already seen what he's packing

This but for Severance

It gets good after 5 seasons, I swear

There’s only two seasons so far.
If it doesn’t wake your interest after the first few episodes then don’t bother and fuck off.

What was this bitch's problem

Is there a Korean remake? I tend to find Korean versions of TV shows more interesting

The show was actually based off a Chinese book. If you want to know the ending just wiki it.

Imagine a Korean version of Miss Casey

With them all being bugs already, would she have to be double-bug?

Mark, 35

The actor for Mark is 51.

Helly, 19

And that actress is 39.
I guess young people suck at acting so TV shows and movies end up hiring way older actors most of the time.

Helly in the show is probably meant to be 30. They scrapped the teen-Helly thing

She'd have to be white and blonde

its pure midwit slop (i havent watched it)

Helly is supposed to be 30, Mark is probably 42

Cowards.

I was surprised at how old the Mark actor was. Not because he looked young but because I didn't expect a show about office workers to have the main character be a 50 year old guy, although I guess in the show he's supposed to be 40.
Kind of reassuring since I'm 38 and don't like seeing TV shows where the main characters are increasingly younger than I am.

I can't believe Mark would groom a young naive little 30 year old, someone outta call him out.

That's why Drummond kicked his ass in the finale

The season 2 ending would have caused a lot lots seethe, that's for sure

Yeah I mean it would make more sense if they were both around the same age. But Adam Scott is pretty much perfect in his role

Is it weird that initially I didn’t find her that attractive, kinda a normal looking woman, but after two seasons she’s pretty much 9/10?

Bitches on Twin Peaks war way too hot

I know what you mean. Still photos don't convey it. Something about her expressiveness makes her so appealing, and she becomes so familiar

Adam Scott from Parks and Recs would be better

Real and truthpilled.

Do you like her personality

Oh yeah he would be perfect

Turturro is great though

This

Apparently Milchick improvised the run on the first take which is why the shot is too high to actually follow him running

She’s like a force of nature, pretty much how strong women characters should be written. Very active, and taking initiative, with a good sense of humor, but without being an antipathetic asshole or Mary Sue.

played most scenes on 2x speed

You're shovelling food into your gullet

She was perfectly cast as an "office wife" what you describe is pretty much exactly this phenomena

Have you seen early 90s Lara Flynn Boyle?

viewing guide

I concur, she really is a good SFC.
Reghabi is a terrible character with zero depth and minimal impact on the plot. (Reintegration returned to his home planet)
Cobel is so one-note that her mysterious backstory and "layers" come off as uninteresting. She may be tough and doesnt take shit but Helly feels like a more fully realized character.

Agreed with everything.

Here you go OP

One of the best moments in the season is outie Helena Egan trying to rizz Mark.

Reghabi was fine as a character before... something happened.
They changed the script, most likely turning Cobel into a deus ex machina character that resolves necessary plot issues.

But in doing that they dropped reintegration as an ongoing process, of which Reghabi was a part.
But she was probably a member of a group or at least there were other operators, which is how outie Irving was doing his reintegration (that's how he knew about the elevator, had a list of severed people, knew enough to do research)
She was, however, a mega bitch. Some black women are just like that I guess. I wasn't sure how they were expecting it to come across at first, but eventually Mark and Devon both treated her like the untrustworthy nutcase she was. So she's not a "terrible character" she's a terrible person who was an unlikely character that could have paid off, had they followed through.

Do you think it was setup as if Reghabi invented the severance procedure which is how she knows so much about it but it was changed for season 2 so that Cobel could come back into the plot

This is just a list of all the episodes

No shit, sherlock

When does it get good? What are the must-watch episodes? Is there a viewing guide somewhere?

Bro, it's simple. If you didn't like it don't watch it. Fucking zoomers, I swear.

Tbf anons burn thru these generals like tissues. You can't keep it all in one thread.

Because it makes no sense to skip episodes, maybe except of 208 where you only need the last 10 minutes

No I think it was setup that "who invented severance" is a stupid non-issue, but that Reghabi was a member of a group of dissident Lumon scientists and she was just one of a group at Lumon so has an incomplete understanding.

A sensible answer for who invented it is that it was a team of Japanese or whatever researchers who proved the concept then Lumon bought the technology and implemented it via a huge department.
Lumon is a company wealthy enough to build entire towns, bribe politicians and control the media. They wouldn't have gotten that much wealth in the few years severance has existed, so they're obviously a huge multinational corp with a thousand products. For each industry they're in they'd have multiple research divisions of hundreds of people each, to invent new types of opioids or paint thinner etc.

This is netflix slop you have to torrent.

Helly does not exist, Helena is not severed.

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