anyone seen SEVERANCE yet?

the tuturro outie scenes were great. i totally get why a guy like him would want to completely dissociate from the mindless day job that pays for his artistic fulfillment.

Have any of you read THE LEXINGTON LETTER yet?

Some of you should be able to read here: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewBook?id=1613220757

HI DERE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsMD8taQ1qA
#onethread

that was fuckin tense

Like an MDE on steroids

Nice interview with Zach Cherry/Dylan here, contains spoilers for Ep9.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77YwQqgd9Mk

I feel like the line about pregnancy in this EP might be the biggest clue as to the motivations of Lumon yet.

I didn't know about this thread! That episode was maybe the best episode of TV I've ever seen.

Welcome, daniel s! We are so happy to have you with us, it's a great thing you are doing by coming here.

Not looking forward to the withdrawal symptoms.

Guess I'll just have to break out the coffee cozies.

Jesus christ, Patricia, stop clicking the thread about the programme you haven't watched yet!

Why hello, Mrs. Selvig.

https://www.vulture.com/article/how-severance-filmed-defiant-jazz-dance-sequence.html

“We wanted more and more stylistic juxtaposition: something that seems really, really nice and beautiful next to something that’s horrifying and scary,” Erickson says. (His other group-bonding idea of a “touch tank,” similar to the Halloween haunted-house gags, included bowls of spaghetti masquerading as brains but was put aside after “there was so much confusion over what the hell I was talking about.”)

I wonder how one would dance to 'Spooky Ambient'?

'Effusive Ska' would have been fun. Love to have seen Irv skanking to the beat, or all of them (minus Dylan, of course) doing the Madness 'Nutty Boy' train.

I think there is an example of Hootin' Tootin' Country at the beginning of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTNGg0Tj5Aw

Guess during the downtime we can do a POLL if we really want.

BTW I do agree with some of the upthread discussion about Ricken being maybe a bit too cartoonish for the show, but I did get a nice chuckle out of "linguists believe the word camaraderie derives from the Latin word 'camera', meaning 'a device for taking pictures'."

Also liked the way his self-hating self-consciousness after his reading delayed Mark that much more from telling his story.

He definitely felt more likable on this last episode, some crazy lines from that Rebeck (sp) girl too.

Rebeck stuff was another great distraction/delaying tactic.

all of the 'outies' are way too cartoonish/uncanny (e.g. the dinner party where they discuss WWI) - not sure if that hurts or helps the show

Yeah, the Ricken coterie seemed very odd, almost like 'The Serial/Marin County' era hippies but in the present day and darker.

Also, I see people commenting in a way that suggests the appearance of a mobile phone is some sort of slip, but I can't figure out why.

the funny but odd line "I found her, it was me" or something, from the friend who found the baby, like immediately wanting the recognition. Was kinda funny but not something a real person would say?

So "revolving" is copying Get Out, right? Using innies as new bodies?

i’ve seen the argument that ricken (rick n?) and his coterie are all severed or otherwise somehow ‘new’ and therefore inexperienced, which is why they act like weird children.

Starting to think that maybe there was some kind of baby swap, or better yet some kind of DIY chipping

I think it's possible that some women have been severed w/o their knowledge.
Fave part of last ep: Ms. Cobel's Wild Ride

also, the guy who was "i found it, me me me me me" is definitely not the kind of thing a normal adult human would say out loud, but tbh i think we all know people who have this subconscious compulsion to seek approval and gratitude, even undeserved.

Finale was incredible. So fucking tense. IRL gasp when Mark said "Mrs Cobel" at the party (although half expected).

And poor Irving 🙁

yep. When mark said that I paused the tv and spent 5 minutes pontification about how amazing and powerful that was and how much more impact it had than a million marvel movies or whatever. I know I'm fun to watch tv with.

do we have to keep hiding text? Don't threads like this usually assume you're caught up?

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.

i think maybe give it a full day at least?

I just don't look at threads until I'm caught up.

Maybe some of us are just slightly embarrassed by our hypotheses and want to hide them behind hidden tags to preserve a sense of decorum.

Almost put that behind tags just to mess.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/severance-finale-ben-stiller-interview-1330692/

are there irl office lights that turn off/on by sweeping across the room?

i keep wanting to push dylan’s glasses back up

are there irl office lights that turn off/on by sweeping across the room?

i loved that the pictures at the egan ball were all pictures taken by milchick with his lil' leica. black and white too!

Those are discussed here: https://www.vulture.com/article/severance-finale-britt-lower-helly-interview.html

The weird childish friends and Ricken I think are all just wackos for comic relief, but it would be fun if their personalities had some greater plot significance, why not.

Yes, exactly.

I’m excited that Irving placed his outie to come face to face with outie Burt, who obviously has some outie history with him. So that’ll be a fun scene. Wonder what we’ll learn

gaaaah this finale has me shook

when Helly says WE ARE PRISONERS my brain completely flipped i was like jesus christ they are prisoners … like I kind of knew but hearing it out loud just changed the whole show?

I legit did not think they were going to let her get more than two words out before she ran out of time!

I also want like, a 30 minute version of the intro. I thinks it’s so great. Visuals and the music both.