anyone seen SEVERANCE yet?

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.

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.