anyone seen SEVERANCE yet?

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"

龜 otm

I don't think Ricken is a con man necessarily, I think he really believes what he's peddling

oh yeah for sure, my description is a reflection of how if i knew someone like that irl i would wanna strangle them daily

the woman who shared her book with mark in the last episode is my favorite character

Of course.

So they’re kind of a cargo cult?

― Anita Quatloos (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, April 11, 2022 8:03 AM (four hours ago)

yeah, but instead of a coke bottle it's a bunch of yogi tea bottles with "your infinity in you is the reality in you" printed on them

Brad also otm

I can watch this show and accept these people are looking for something in their lives and they've got this legitimate or forced naivete that draws them to Ricken and his book

but if I was around them daily, I would probably go insane

Mark's sister being able to kind of smile and nod or roll her eyes a little when her husband gets all goofy makes me think she's got an amazing mental filter that just lets her concentrate on having this kind but doofy husband while ignoring all the trappings of his writing. She's got the intentional conscious severance the Lumon corporation would kill for

a bunch of yogi tea bottles with "your infinity in you is the reality in you" printed on them

namaste

Aap kaise hain?

I just binged this.
It's like someone made a show out of everything I love, except maybe they got Adam Scott's face a little bit wrong. (I'm convinced they're doing something there, it's messing with me).

The LUMON stuff is like the best bits of the Dharma Initiative and also this interactive alt-reality game thing that was on in San Francisco ages ago called the Jejune Institute.

BTW if you want to try MDR go here: https://lumon-industries.com/

Patricia Arquette is just so watchable, she's great, kind of weird that the last thing I saw her in was Gypsy-Rose's mother DeeDee in 'The Act' who was spaced out a lot of the time. When she whips out the little drill at the funeral to get the chip, omg.

That last episode, where they were supposed to be doing THE MISSION to TELL EVERYONE and yet Mark kept getting delayed by everything, like some neverending dream / The Unconsoled.

I kind of wanted them to test the pattern-recognition software/whatever it is even more - do their clothes not have care labels etc? - if they were banned then presumably the outies know about not being able to send messages between selves? - I thought Helly would scar herself with a message (not that it would really have helped in her case). That time she tried to smash through the window I didn't immediately get that she was trying to force her outie to look at the paper she'd written on.

this interactive alt-reality game thing that was on in San Francisco ages ago called the Jejune Institute.

they actually made an awful show out of this

was that season 2 of The OA? i enjoyed the first season of that but never finished s2