Severance was very compelling, and there's this overwhelming unease you feel that pervades everything, including the bizarre visuals of the credits. The final episode made me so stressed my watch...
Severance was very compelling, and there's this overwhelming unease you feel that pervades everything, including the bizarre visuals of the credits. The final episode made me so stressed my watch asked me if I wanted to do a breathing exercise.
Severance is great. They create an interesting, pretty awful, world for their characters and let them do interesting things within it. My frustrations are that, similar to Lost, it can feel a bit...
Severance is great. They create an interesting, pretty awful, world for their characters and let them do interesting things within it.
My frustrations are that, similar to Lost, it can feel a bit disengaging because it's all a bit random. The show is saying "Here's this thing! Look, isn't it weird! I wonder what's going on here?" and my response is "well, yeah, but now you've shown me are we going to get a 45 minute exploration of that and how characters respond to it, or are you just going to ignore it forever?"
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There's a bit where an innie communicates with her outie because she's miserable at work, and the outie doesn't care. And the show mostly just leaves it there. And I don't know if that's good because they trust the audience to get it, or if it's bad because they could have had a deeper, subtle, exploration of it using the different characters they've created to show the wider aspects of it.
I don't think these are huge problems, but I don't know if people are going to be satisfied with another Lost / XFiles setup where the lore ends up being a confused mess because it's all just surface level "oh woah, look, kooky weird situation right? wonder what we're implying with this logo on a folder in a room where the character shouldn't be"
I sound like I didn't enjoy it, but I did! I liked it a lot! I'm impressed at AppleTV. I like the cast, I think they're doing good work. Visually it looks great too.
Spoiler Do you mean with Helly? The finale (well, context clues as well, but the finale spells it out) goes back into it. Helly's outie doesn't care about her, because she's the heiress to Lumon...
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Do you mean with Helly? The finale (well, context clues as well, but the finale spells it out) goes back into it. Helly's outie doesn't care about her, because she's the heiress to Lumon and implied to be a cold blooded, ambitious person. Her severing herself is a publicity stunt, so her outie is absolutely not letting her out. It's also why the thing happens in the first or second episode where she keeps getting thrown back in. She runs out of the severed floor, but outside Helly just runs back in.
Yeah, I felt that was a pretty satisfying explanation. SpoilersHelly's outie just doesn't think of her as a person who is allowed to have separate desires from her. This type of thinking is...
Yeah, I felt that was a pretty satisfying explanation.
SpoilersHelly's outie just doesn't think of her as a person who is allowed to have separate desires from her. This type of thinking is encouraged by Limon, but even if it wasn't, as heir to the company she is incentivized to. If she considered any of the innies to be actual people rather than extensions of outies, she'd have to confront what she's a part of.
I was also worried about the plot being Calvinballed but I read a few interviews with the writer and he apparently knows exactly what is going on and has a plan which can be adapted to however...
I was also worried about the plot being Calvinballed but I read a few interviews with the writer and he apparently knows exactly what is going on and has a plan which can be adapted to however many seasons Apple want to give him. I think people learned from how badly Lost fumbled things. Some people at least. Damon Lindelof certainly didn't because he's done it again on other projects (not least Prometheus as mentioned in the link). But I am going to need answers about those goats if nothing else.
Severance was easily one of the best TV series of this year and I can't wait for more. The final episode was so tense and I like that they didn't just wrap everything up in an easy bow, but still managed enough resolution to make it satisfactory. Not to mention that visually it was just.. chef's kiss. So beautifully designed and filmed.
Fun fact: the macrodata refinement terminals were fully functional
Severance was very compelling, and there's this overwhelming unease you feel that pervades everything, including the bizarre visuals of the credits. The final episode made me so stressed my watch asked me if I wanted to do a breathing exercise.
It was great.
Severance is great. They create an interesting, pretty awful, world for their characters and let them do interesting things within it.
My frustrations are that, similar to Lost, it can feel a bit disengaging because it's all a bit random. The show is saying "Here's this thing! Look, isn't it weird! I wonder what's going on here?" and my response is "well, yeah, but now you've shown me are we going to get a 45 minute exploration of that and how characters respond to it, or are you just going to ignore it forever?"
Spoiler
There's a bit where an innie communicates with her outie because she's miserable at work, and the outie doesn't care. And the show mostly just leaves it there. And I don't know if that's good because they trust the audience to get it, or if it's bad because they could have had a deeper, subtle, exploration of it using the different characters they've created to show the wider aspects of it.I don't think these are huge problems, but I don't know if people are going to be satisfied with another Lost / XFiles setup where the lore ends up being a confused mess because it's all just surface level "oh woah, look, kooky weird situation right? wonder what we're implying with this logo on a folder in a room where the character shouldn't be"
I sound like I didn't enjoy it, but I did! I liked it a lot! I'm impressed at AppleTV. I like the cast, I think they're doing good work. Visually it looks great too.
Spoiler
Do you mean with Helly? The finale (well, context clues as well, but the finale spells it out) goes back into it. Helly's outie doesn't care about her, because she's the heiress to Lumon and implied to be a cold blooded, ambitious person. Her severing herself is a publicity stunt, so her outie is absolutely not letting her out. It's also why the thing happens in the first or second episode where she keeps getting thrown back in. She runs out of the severed floor, but outside Helly just runs back in.Yeah, I felt that was a pretty satisfying explanation.
Spoilers
Helly's outie just doesn't think of her as a person who is allowed to have separate desires from her. This type of thinking is encouraged by Limon, but even if it wasn't, as heir to the company she is incentivized to. If she considered any of the innies to be actual people rather than extensions of outies, she'd have to confront what she's a part of.I was also worried about the plot being Calvinballed but I read a few interviews with the writer and he apparently knows exactly what is going on and has a plan which can be adapted to however many seasons Apple want to give him. I think people learned from how badly Lost fumbled things. Some people at least. Damon Lindelof certainly didn't because he's done it again on other projects (not least Prometheus as mentioned in the link). But I am going to need answers about those goats if nothing else.
Severance was easily one of the best TV series of this year and I can't wait for more. The final episode was so tense and I like that they didn't just wrap everything up in an easy bow, but still managed enough resolution to make it satisfactory. Not to mention that visually it was just.. chef's kiss. So beautifully designed and filmed.
Fun fact: the macrodata refinement terminals were fully functional
What a great premise, I'm super intrigued and this has jumped onto the top of my to-watch list!