this is much much better than westworld could ever dream of being
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Saturday, 9 April 2022 20:08 (two years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Saturday, 9 April 2022 20:37 (two years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Uncut Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 April 2022 20:59 (two years ago) link
that blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Rajat Suresh cameo at the book reading was nice
― mh, Saturday, 9 April 2022 21:14 (two years ago) link
https://mashable.com/article/severance-opening-titles-oliver-latta
― Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 13:21 (two years ago) link
genuinely surprised at how much i loved this show. looking forward to the next season
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 April 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
never feel this way about tv
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 April 2022 15:48 (two years ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 April 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
I just realised the wellness room person is Katya "kinky" Kinski from Neighbours
― kinder, Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
Yes. Think she usually has blonde hair which might be what threw you off.
― Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
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?
― adam t. (abanana), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:56 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMzFL2sQy24
― Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:06 (two years ago) link
Meant to also post: Morbius to thread!
I'll let him speak for himself
― Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:12 (two years ago) link
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.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link
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
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 April 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
your outies are very observant
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 April 2022 01:11 (two years ago) link
Is that a line of dialogue I missed?
― Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 April 2022 01:22 (two years ago) link
Apologies for the persistent link posting but: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-feast-of-severance
― Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 April 2022 01:45 (two years ago) link
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.
― trishyb, Monday, 11 April 2022 11:24 (two years ago) link
― 龜, Monday, 11 April 2022 11:49 (two years ago) link
So they’re kind of a cargo cult?
― Anita Quatloos (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 April 2022 12:03 (two years ago) link
amazing finale
there is some wild theorizing going on on this thread lol. sorry, but nothing happened with the baby.
― na (NA), Monday, 11 April 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
i love the opening credits they look cool
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 11 April 2022 13:29 (two years ago) link
same
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 11 April 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
theme song is great too
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 11 April 2022 15:22 (two years ago) link
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!
― 龜, Monday, 11 April 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
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"
― mh, Monday, 11 April 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 11 April 2022 16:02 (two years ago) link
the woman who shared her book with mark in the last episode is my favorite character
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 11 April 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
Of course.
― Anita Quatloos (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 April 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
― 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
― 龜, Monday, 11 April 2022 16:08 (two years ago) link
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
― mh, Monday, 11 April 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
a bunch of yogi tea bottles with "your infinity in you is the reality in you" printed on them
namaste
― mh, Monday, 11 April 2022 16:27 (two years ago) link
Aap kaise hain?
― Anita Quatloos (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 April 2022 16:32 (two years ago) link
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.
― kinder, Monday, 11 April 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
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
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 11 April 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
was that season 2 of The OA? i enjoyed the first season of that but never finished s2
― na (NA), Monday, 11 April 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
When Outie Irv is looking at the map/where he lives, is the actual town called Kier? Do they live in Lumon worker housing?
You must enjoy each fact equally and not show preference. Please don't speak further, or all remaining points will be deducted and the wellness session will end.
This did remind me of the OA actually, and I think that series of the OA reminded me of the Jejune game thing...
― kinder, Monday, 11 April 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
jejune institute adaptation was jason segel's dispatches from elsewhere, pretty much entirely curdled by its self-indulgent final episode
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 11 April 2022 22:14 (two years ago) link
i seem like the kind of person who would love the oa but i still haven't seen any of it
i think mark lives in lumon worker housing; not sure about irving
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 April 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link
anyone see escape from dannemora? more stiller x arquette that i had no interest in before, but now that i'm faced with a 12 month+ severance absence, am very willing to try
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 11 April 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link
― kinder, Monday, 11 April 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
Dannemora was also excellent. Stiller is good at this.
― DJI, Monday, 11 April 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
She was also in Dollhouse, which has some similarities to Severance
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link
omg i didn’t even know that was dichen lachman the greatest actor ever
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 02:18 (two years ago) link
Love this show, and the cast is fantastic - nice mix of familiar faces and relative unknowns.
I don't think I've ever seen the actress who plays Mark's sister in anything else but she's great. reminds me of Olivia Colman a little.
yes, and maybe. there was also a newspaper article with a Kier dateline.
― Roz, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
Not sure on protocol as it's not even 24 hours since it came out but yeah, if I hadn't seen it I definitely wouldn't be reading the thread yet.
― groovypanda, Friday, April 8, 2022 2:38 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Just watched the finale, refrained from looking at this thread until now, well done eephus
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link