Author Topic: Severance (Read 4727 times)

phinix · « **on:** Fri, 17 January 2025, 19:31:33 »

WOW!

Just watched 1st episode of 2nd season. This is really good show, one of my favourites.

phinix · « **Reply #1 on:** Fri, 17 January 2025, 19:34:34 »

If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it!

If you are intrigued by those computers and those keyboards - those ones are nice replicas of old computer - Data General 6053 terminal, or Dasher D2.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #2 on:** Fri, 17 January 2025, 20:12:10 »

I saw Season 1 - creepy AF!

But I will have to find out what happens, after that extremely compelling cliffhanger.

Now that I have had a few years to binge on multiple "back issues" that I never caught the first time 'round, having to wait a week between "fixes" seems so so 20th century.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #3 on:** Fri, 17 January 2025, 20:17:39 »

This is basically real life. Modern corporate work culture is exactly as represented in the show.

They pay you a salary, what's not said up-front is we're then also signed up to the blind allegiance towards the imperialist structure.

If my company makes bombs for israel so they can genocide the palestinians, so be it. I have to feed my kids, who will also sell their souls into the same machine. To work for the company or country, is then identical to removing pieces of yourself, your virtues, your empathy, your capacity for love.

Exactly like the show.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #4 on:** Sat, 18 January 2025, 08:21:42 »

Just watched episode 1, already compelling. Oooof they're going to drag this out and have us tumbling all week for new epis.

phinix · « **Reply #5 on:** Sat, 18 January 2025, 09:40:21 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 18 January 2025, 08:21:42

Just watched episode 1, already compelling. Oooof they're going to drag this out and have us tumbling all week for new epis.

Yep, f**ing apple tv...

TomahawkLabs · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 18 January 2025, 11:09:04 »

Personally I like it. It allows for the tension to build. For the watchers to engage in conversation and theories, before giving us another drip of dopamine. I think binging TV series removes a lot of that suspense building and community. Also, a single 1 hour episode fits into my nightly schedule very well.

iri · « **Reply #7 on:** Tue, 28 January 2025, 06:54:59 »

I made 3 attempts to watch Severance and it didn't catch me at all.

TomahawkLabs · « **Reply #8 on:** Tue, 28 January 2025, 07:08:24 »

Quote from: iri on Tue, 28 January 2025, 06:54:59

I made 3 attempts to watch Severance and it didn't catch me at all.

You live in a part of the world that respects workers, so I wouldn't expect you to get it lol.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #9 on:** Tue, 28 January 2025, 10:13:39 »

Quote from: iri on Tue, 28 January 2025, 06:54:59

I made 3 attempts to watch Severance and it didn't catch me at all.

It is a very slow burn and deliberately off-putting.

Sniping · « **Reply #10 on:** Tue, 28 January 2025, 16:47:18 »

honestly thought season 1 wasn't bad, but never really loved it while watching it. I started a few weeks ago with this recap

and now with the new episodes releasing, I'm really digging the last two episodes that've been coming. I'm definitely more engaged than I was when working through season 1.

phinix · « **Reply #11 on:** Tue, 28 January 2025, 16:56:42 »

For me personally, it is one of the best stories, love it.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #12 on:** Wed, 29 January 2025, 21:28:08 »

Man, I keep hearing good things about this show and Shrinking.

Quote from: iri on Tue, 28 January 2025, 06:54:59

I made 3 attempts to watch Severance and it didn't catch me at all.

That's me with Bojack Horseman. On paper it's everything I like in a comedy, but every time I try to watch it I find it boring, and pretentious.

phinix · « **Reply #13 on:** Thu, 30 January 2025, 03:09:06 »

Quote from: noisyturtle on Wed, 29 January 2025, 21:28:08

Man, I keep hearing good things about this show and Shrinking.

Quote from: iri on Tue, 28 January 2025, 06:54:59
I made 3 attempts to watch Severance and it didn't catch me at all.

That's me with Bojack Horseman. On paper it's everything I like in a comedy, but every time I try to watch it I find it boring, and pretentious.

Shrinking is a good comedy show, people with real life problems, sometimes it annoys me cause they show how people do not communicate between each other and this is main reason for many issues, but it is very common in movies. It is a "light watch", you can do that when you sit down after work in the evening with coffee and cake kinda thing

Severance - I loved it from the beginning, I can imagine why some people dont like it - it was slowly showing the whole office environment in first season and it slowly unravelling whole truth and problem behind the whole company. It could be off putting at times, but thing is everything else is so drawing you towards and keep you thinking what is really going on there, that it makes very interesting. Plus I really like the cinematography, way they filmed it, scenery, props, actual people they picked for those roles, it all build an amazing story:)

boku · « **Reply #14 on:** Thu, 06 February 2025, 15:01:30 »

Love everything about this show. Super excited for tonight's episode

I also love the fact that they reached out to SP directly for the keysets featured in the show

tp4tissue · « **Reply #15 on:** Fri, 28 March 2025, 13:34:37 »

Just finished S2,

Realistically, there's no way Mark would've chosen Helly over Gemma.

It's like saying, someone would choose 4790k over 7800x3d if they cost the same, that's ludicrous. They used it to knowingly generate outrage as part of the plot.

And this is the game, the TV-System is designed to manipulate the audience to further capture attention.

It's a show manipulating the audience, about manipulating audiences.

Sniping · « **Reply #16 on:** Sat, 29 March 2025, 03:23:31 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Fri, 28 March 2025, 13:34:37

Just finished S2,

Realistically, there's no way Mark would've chosen Helly over Gemma.

It's like saying, someone would choose 4790k over 7800x3d if they cost the same, that's ludicrous. They used it to knowingly generate outrage as part of the plot.

And this is the game, the TV-System is designed to manipulate the audience to further capture attention.

It's a show manipulating the audience, about manipulating audiences.

It was innie Mark who chose Helly over Gemma

tp4tissue · « **Reply #17 on:** Sat, 29 March 2025, 10:02:18 »

Quote from: Sniping on Sat, 29 March 2025, 03:23:31

It was innie Mark who chose Helly over Gemma

Innie Mark would not choose Helly. This violates every natural law.

The discrepancy is purposeful. They did this to trigger the audience.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #18 on:** Sat, 29 March 2025, 10:16:11 »

I have not seen Season 2, but Mark and Helly bonded in a mother-infant sort of way when she was "born" on the conference room table.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #19 on:** Sat, 29 March 2025, 17:18:19 »

Season 2 is where Severence lost me. It just felt like needlessly inflating a story that could have already been wrapped up and told in one season. I was done with the show by episode 3 of season 2, I just cannot put any more time into these rapidly diminishing returns.

First season had me hooked though, and was a great watch up until the final episode

fohat.digs · « **Reply #20 on:** Tue, 01 April 2025, 14:23:34 »

off-topic

fohat.digs · « **Reply #21 on:** Sun, 06 April 2025, 20:57:27 »

OK, now I just finished this thing. Exhausting and frustrating. I haven't slept well for several nights.

No questions answered. Makes no sense. Ben Stiller is a sadist.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #22 on:** Mon, 07 April 2025, 02:23:03 »

Some people watch it a second time. TBH, Tp4 doesn't think it's that complicated. The product IS severance, the goal being slave drones, complete control of personality and perception for any situational work. Gemma being split multiple ways.

This show would've been more compelling BEFORE AI, Now, it's like, yea humans suck, why would you want them doing anything.

Surefoot · « **Reply #23 on:** Mon, 07 April 2025, 04:58:13 »

Quote from: fohat.digs on Sun, 06 April 2025, 20:57:27

OK, now I just finished this thing. Exhausting and frustrating. I haven't slept well for several nights.

No questions answered. Makes no sense. Ben Stiller is a sadist.

It does answer a few questions but then opens a few others

And yeah I could see Ben Stiller grinning ear to ear while filming that ending. End credits are a perfect recreation of 70's movies credits by the way.
For me it stands on its own but I like open endings so YMMV.
(edit) https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BolivianArmyEnding or more precisely https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BolivianArmyCliffhanger for the corresponding ending trope. Done to the letter

do links show through spoilers ?

phinix · « **Reply #24 on:** Mon, 07 April 2025, 06:13:54 »

Quote from: Surefoot on Mon, 07 April 2025, 04:58:13

Quote from: fohat.digs on Sun, 06 April 2025, 20:57:27
OK, now I just finished this thing. Exhausting and frustrating. I haven't slept well for several nights.

No questions answered. Makes no sense. Ben Stiller is a sadist.
It does answer a few questions but then opens a few others And yeah I could see Ben Stiller grinning ear to ear while filming that ending. End credits are a perfect recreation of 70's movies credits by the way.
For me it stands on its own but I like open endings so YMMV.
(edit) https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BolivianArmyEnding or more precisely https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BolivianArmyCliffhanger for the corresponding ending trope. Done to the letter
do links show through spoilers ?

Oh, I'm happy someone else noticed it and appreciated it

I love the way they did the end credits - music, fantastic animations, those lines, text and "old school filter", love it

I watched it 3 times - only the credits

fohat.digs · « **Reply #25 on:** Mon, 07 April 2025, 08:47:33 »

I did watch the credits this morning and they were good. Last night I was so glad for it to be over that I did not watch them.

Hard to imagine where they will go next season. If they clone physical bodies I will be disgusted - that would be the cheapest plot device imaginable.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #26 on:** Mon, 07 April 2025, 19:10:42 »

Quote from: fohat.digs on Mon, 07 April 2025, 08:47:33

I did watch the credits this morning and they were good. Last night I was so glad for it to be over that I did not watch them.

Hard to imagine where they will go next season. If they clone physical bodies I will be disgusted - that would be the cheapest plot device imaginable.

There was never even supposed to be a 2nd season. It only got picked up due to popularity, and the writers had nothing planned.

Surefoot · « **Reply #27 on:** Mon, 07 April 2025, 19:23:11 »

Dan Erickson had it all back in 2016 I believe. Not in the gritty nitty details but the overall story, and endpoint:
https://torontosun.com/entertainment/television/severance-creator-has-whole-series-mapped-out-theres-a-plan-for-where-its-all-going
https://watchinamerica.com/news/severance-creator-masterplan-show/
I was curious about the writer since I found a lot of parallels with Control (the video game by Remedy) and it turns out both had the same source of inspiration (Backrooms, SCP, etc.). Ben Stiller brought the scenario back to more solid grounds and centered it on the critic of corporate life.
And it's quite obvious that the end of S1 is a cliff hanger.

JackQn · « **Reply #28 on:** Mon, 07 April 2025, 19:49:18 »

I watched it with my GF; TBH, it was so good. Highly recommended.

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