Severance

Why was this show completely forgotten a week after it aired?

Another cliffhanger finale to go with a cliffhanger show so we can enjoy waiting 3 years until season 3. We'll forget the entire plot in that time. Then we can enjoy 7 episodes of cliffhangers where nothing happens until the last, decent cliffhanger.

Anon Babble doesn't talk about modern stuff unless it's a flop. if it even was a modest success there's nothing to monkey around for.

what a stupid post. the first season was talked about endlessly for years

helly toes...

Extremely weak season.
They had ideas for 4 episodes and stretched it to 8.

Ding ding ding we have a winner

they had 3 years, why didn't they just write more stuff?

They had a writer's strike and the new guys are a bunch of unimaginative yes-men.

I bet most of the audience left mid-season, like any normal human being. S2 was pure shit.

is it a new writing team? did the strike really stall the industry for like 3 years whys there nothing to watch?

thats the case, i hate how they kinda forgot Petey and anti-Lumon movement from 1rst season while they could organically expand plot based on that in second season.

what's Anon Babble verdict, who's the ultimate waifu?

season 2 was horribly written, the characters all acted extremely weird, and it was entirely fueled by convenient plot contrivances. the season just reeked of female writing with it's sudden focus on racial issues, pregnancy, female geniuses, female sexuality, and gay relationships, while completely ignoring the cool and intelligent scifi world they had built up in the first season. it was just easier to just throw weird nonsensical shit on the screen and paint it in mystery, instead of having weird shit that actually makes sense in the world they have created.

Adam Scott is written as a boring introvert. There's nothing wrong with that - I'm an introvert - but that inherently doesn't lend itself to good tv. Plus Lumon is a major corporation. Any supervisors at the major corporations I've worked for are extravert normies. It's like his character, and the entire office, was written by people who never worked in a real office. They've only worked in writers' rooms, or the office at Pitchfork or something. Not a real insurance or tech or merchandise office.

I can't get over the ORTBO episode. They built up a whole season around the innies trying to get outside and once they do, they barely even care. Killed the entire show for me.

a show about the struggles of the working man, made by the biggest nepo baby in hollywood

Without having watched it myself, I can only guess that it is of the calibre that is common post 2004-2008 grey zone. There's a REASON the catalog is almost always discussing shows older than a high schooler when it isn't flooded with shills and bots.

Think I'm kidding? Start a Farscape, SG-1, or DS9 thread. It stays up for days or bump limit, whichever happens first. Start a new Netflix original programming show discussion thread. 14 posts, 3 images. Gets stale or saged, dies to the next batch of shill posts, bot posts, or the next Farscape, SG-1, or DS9 thread.

yeah it's completely baffling how stupid that episode was. literally nothing made sense from the characters motivations to the logistics of it all. i already had my doubts about the season from the very first episode when they revealed that helly was the outie version, and the entire sequence of reghabi teleporting at the end of episode 3 was also extremely stupid. but episode really cemented that the writers had completely lost the plot.

Dumb fuck reddit nigger

I wish you and that pig were both dead

Acting - 8/10

Writing - 8/10

Cinematography - 8/10

Score / Music - 9/10

Editing & Pacing - 7.5/10

Story - 8.5/10

Directing - 9/10

Production Design - 10/10

Themes/Messages - 9/10

Rewatch Value - 5/10

Overall - 8/10
S2 was weaker overall.

It's funny, because people held up Severance as an example of why weekly releases are SO much better

look at how much discussion the show is getting

if this all released at once, then discussion and the community would dry up in a month after

but instead, what happened is that they made the show as barren as possible in order to drive weekly engagement with breadcrumbs, and the result is that the audience was given so little to go off of that there's nothing to actually discuss outside of that weekly schedule.

Like hey, if they released them in a batch, then maybe they might've actually had to make sure the whole package was engaging, instead of relying on

so okay, MAYBE next week we'll actually get some progress of the plot

I still can't believe they had that black chick basically turn to the camera and say that. I mean, holy shit: the more you think about it, the more one realizes that we basically got nothing out of S2. Most of the "reveals" didn't actually reveal much to actually speculate upon, and we have basically zero context for the significance of the events even as they happened on-screen. What's gonna happen with Gemma? What's gonna happen to the Innies? What the hell actually was Cold Harbor? There's nothing to remotely care about.

not enough material to pad out an entire second season. turns out glorified black mirror episodes don't really work in long form because the concept starts to fall apart

The Petey shit is just actually infuriating. It would've been a great moment if the fight between iMark and oMark started with the latter trying to bring up Petey in an attempt to calm him down and show that reintegration works + that innie lives were significant in the new merged personality, only to backfire spectacularly after iMark connects the dots that Petey is now dead. Would've been way better to make iMark feel like oMark doesn't actually view him as a person, that he would do something reckless with their shared lives, and that no matter what he's probably fucked. Instead, we got the weak ass shitshow we got.

remember when mark entered the office and saw the painting of all the characters on the show, and it was clear that the painting was made by some fan in real life, because it featured a bunch of characters that only made sense to the audience and not to the characters themselves. remember how fucking retarded that was?

The white lotus s3 was better stole all the attention

painting was made by some fan in real life

it was me, sorry

i may forget the show but i will never forget the huangposting

because it was a bad season of tv

S2 was just very bland. It wasn't bad but it was just too boring.

it was bad, it was very bad

S2 sucked because it went from being a quirky piss take of dumb corporate drudgery, to a wacky maincharacterville mess.
Whyd everything need to revolve around Mark? That sorta writing sucks, cos you can tell in the first season that he's only the main character insofar as we follow him. But I'm s2, the entire world revolves around him.
The other easy example is the inclusion of Mr malchik doing that weird marching band shit. You can tell they just wanted a memable moment like they had with the office party. Except cringe office parties are an actual thing (literally experienced middle aged autists dancing around to "celebrate good times" at a corporate event irl) whereas the marching band thing was justified in the most flimsy way, if at all.
Long story short, the show flanderised itself. It became about the weirdness and went way too deep into it's own lore. Also tried to link everything to everything else, explaining far too much, whilst simultaneously adding way too much random "mystery" shit.

I only like the first episode of the show. The first episode felt really Lynchian. Then they tried to explain everything and it went to shit.

My sixty-year-old mother loved the first season, but hated the second season. She couldn't quite put into words why though.

she didnt notice, but her brain did

Shit the bed with season 2. Season 1 is worth a watch though.

is it really worth watching just 1 season if you get no ending, no closure?

i recently got an iphone and it came with 3 months of Apple TV. Severance was already on my radar.

what other shows/movies are worth checking out on AppleTV

name a show that isn’t forgotten a week after a season finishes airing. That’s how it is these days.