anyone seen SEVERANCE yet?

Another good article with Tramell Tillman. Lol at them actually getting lost in the hallways on set

Exclusive Interview: "Severance" actor @TramellTillman talks about working with his A-list co-stars, the physical preparation it took him for the role and much more 🤩#Severance streams on @AppleTVPlus with new episodes every Friday! @PattyArquette https://t.co/rawTr6PZ0f

— Looper (@looper) April 1, 2022

Thanks. Think I read about Patricia Arquette getting lost in the hallways before but at this point I can't keep track of how many of these I have read. But this one was a worthy addition.

the fact that Ms Cobel lives next to Mark, that there was some comment about how mark and his wife didn't recognize each other etc, makes me think the whole thing is an experiment? Like nobody is doing anything down there other than being tested to see if it works? Like putting them in front of people they know in the real world, or giving them a similar job to their history etc, just trying to confirm that it's safe so that people like the politicians wife can do it and not be concerned?

That was my theory too. Except for the fact the higher ups did seem to be concerned about them making quotas.

I want to know what those cards were about the Optics and Design dept were making!

We have a year or two to speculate so the sky's the limiit.

Feel like it is possible that both are true. It's an experiment and the numbers mean something. The Lexington Letter seems to say something about the latter.

Don't think this article has been linked yet: https://www.vulture.com/article/severance-office-design-explained.html.

LIke that one so much can't bring myself to summarize or find a pull quote.

This sounds like hyperbole but I think this might be the best show so far of this decade,

I haven't watched all the shows therefore I can't really speak to that so I will have to take the rest of you who say that at your word.

I loved season 1, but I get Westworld vibes, which make me wary.

Part of me wishes it would just stop right there and we never find out any more.

Yeah, we were saying the same thing. It's a pretty satisfying ending all on its own. You can make assumptions about what happens next without spoiling any of the mysteries or having to explode any fan theories.
As always, I worry about people getting too deeply into it and then being disappointed.

i like the sadness of it as much as the weird eerie thriller vibe & quirky office stuff

Everything about it is just so goddamn perfect in execution - the acting, casting, set design, script. Also, after sitting through those ten awful Oscar nominated films, I found this series especially inspired.

Everybody otm.

I loved the Prisoner vibe the map gave off.

The season isn’t really over for me until the rest of the Redds watch it so I am sort of keeping some of my reaction in reserve and behind IRL hidden tags.

For some silly reason I thought last week's show was the season finale so last night felt like Christmas to me.

You must have missed the discussion upthread where somebody (me) thought it was an eight episode season and was corrected.

I think Wiki had is listed as an eight episode season, too.

It's my favorite season of TV since Russian Doll (which I see is coming back this month).

this is much much better than westworld could ever dream of being

One thing that may have have been a storytelling misstep imo is that they showed the audience the main Eagan in the flesh (unless there's a twist incoming). But otherwise going from super shadowy faceless-do-they/do-they-not-exist "the board", where we finally get a audible "yes" out of the speaker (gasp) to a full scene with the mysterious head Eagan was a little abrupt.

Yeah, but he seemed so weird and artificial that maybe he is not quite alive in the normal sense. There is plenty of speculation out there on the intranetz.

that blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Rajat Suresh cameo at the book reading was nice

https://mashable.com/article/severance-opening-titles-oliver-latta

genuinely surprised at how much i loved this show. looking forward to the next season

never feel this way about tv

everyone in the severed world getting their minds blown by that bullshit con artist's book (which, of course, occasionally trips and collides into something resembling truth) is maybe my favorite little thing about this show

I just realised the wellness room person is Katya "kinky" Kinski from Neighbours

Yes. Think she usually has blonde hair which might be what threw you off.

The reverence for the only book they have feels like something I've read before, but I can't remember what. Maybe the cod latin words in the closet in The Handmaid's Tale?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzFL2sQy24

Meant to also post: Morbius to thread!

I'll let him speak for himself

They leaned more and more into presenting things this way over the course of the season, but a nice touch when we saw Irving with the "Manual" (I think probably the time he smashed the deviled egg in it), it was printed in columns like a bible.

one thing i found v stressful was that the manual seemed like it was very convoluted & illogical, like sometimes you’d have to flip through many pages/chapters just to find a logical next step in a sequence. fuuuuuck that lmao that would be a) hell and b) a nightmare

your outies are very observant

Is that a line of dialogue I missed?

Apologies for the persistent link posting but: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-feast-of-severance

I do absolutely love the show, but I do not like the opening credits. I find them very DO YOU SEE? and the animation style reminds me of beloved children's programme Morph, but without the charm. Maybe they'll grow on me. I mean, obviously I get the hilarity of them mirroring "could a depressed person do this?" but I feel they're actually not a great ad for the show itself, because the show is a lot subtler than that.

The reverence for the only book they have feels like something I've read before, but I can't remember what. Maybe the cod latin words in the closet in The Handmaid's Tale?

So they’re kind of a cargo cult?

amazing finale

there is some wild theorizing going on on this thread lol. sorry, but nothing happened with the baby.

i love the opening credits they look cool

same

theme song is great too

re: ricken's book, I have thought before it'd be kind of funny if aristotle, plato, aristophanes etc. were really like, the jordan peterson and dane cook of their times. and all the works of the good thinkers didn't survive. we were left with just the dregs!

I don't think Ricken is a con man necessarily, I think he really believes what he's peddling. Definitely wants to succeed and have a following, but he's way too doofy for it to be a calculated thing

the line that keeps returning to me was the lady who was sharing her book mumbling "I think I need to change my name again"