Severance just produced a 39 minute episode of which the first 12 minutes are just a person driving to a place to ask someone else to drive to another place and then they arrive at the second place and she asks for a ride to third place
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Lol I asked (you can ask in grand jury) “why are we indicting this first guy, maybe he was just some guy?” the DA lady goes “FUCK” and then gets detectives in to explain this whole org chart. “look it is a job for that guy to point to the second guy” whole thing surreal
Respect. I’m a huge Severance fan, and these past two episodes feeling LOSTy has only made me love it more lol. You can’t have the bangers with character-driven support episodes that make the pay offs execute more emotionally.
I have to say, I stopped watching Severance mid-way S1 because even though I love Lost (yes the whole thing 😂), the mystery box trope has been squeezed to death, partly killed by Abrams.
Having said all this, really want to get back into Severance because FOMO & friends I trust keep recommending it.
Hi. World’s biggest LOST fan here.I remember watching through S1 of Severance and it not fully grabbing me in the way everyone talks it about it currently until the back half of the season. Season 2 has been excellent. I think if you get to the final few episodes of S1, you’ll love it.
This makes me want to watch it even more! Reminds me of recently rewatching Twin Peaks S3 of just the vibes of a guy sweeping the floor at the Roadhouse. ❤️
You learned nothing?! Only that Cobel invented the tech Lumon is using and was raised as a child laborer in a fucking ether factory that sucked the life out of the people there and then abandoned them and she's coming back pissed. Yeah that's probably not important at all.
That episode flowed right through me, and the thing is, I lowkey kind of respect the energy of, “we’re not even going to *try* to follow up the episode that made everything before it look like hot trash”
The writers could have addressed that in under 10min, and gave us something else. Or just told us get lost. Either would have been better than the original.
write a whole blog post about this on your site or give up on getting haughty in the replies to your bad take. either attempt to make a real point or don’t
It reminded me of those old Columbo episodes where Columbo had to walk across a large room, pick up a phone, and very slowly dial a seven digit number on a rotary dial, then wait for the person to answer. Or car chases in old Magnum PI episodes where there's just endless shots of various sedans.
One of my all time faves was Wonder woman clearly in a swimming pool that I think they reused for a couple or 3 underwater action shots that were "in the ocean" or natural body of water, but you probably coudln't tell in 70s TVs and broadcast quality. :)
Severance producers wanted to have Lina Khan on to guest star. But you know Tim Cook's policy on platforming sponsors of breaking up illegal monopolies 🙅
They had to fill up the missing Lina Khan scenes with something.
IDK, the last two episodes have been by far the best of the show in terms of portraying the outside world interestingly. That was a weakness of the show until now, those segments weren’t always filmed as interestingly.
Yeah, I get that perspective. The magic of S1 was that it was about a group of characters and the intrigue around the world that they existed within. S2 has been more expansive, but feels like it’s been padded out to fill an expected number of episodes rather than feeling a story with good pacing.
Yeah, I’d that is the case, it’s disappointing, but I have faith it isn’t, I’ve heard they have an ending and set number of seasons. I think the reintegration sideplot had a danger of derailing the show, but the last two episodes were pretty tremendous imo, as was the ORTBO episode
The show had to somehow find a way to move story beyond the workplace comedy aspect to get a satisfying conclusion and I think the directorial shifts and deemphasis of Mark Scout as the main character with agency have helped with that
I love the Rorschach test nature of this post. So many people replying with anger and incredulousness about what they assume you mean without taking a moment to ask themselves or even ask you!
Anyway, this episode also featured people huffing ether.
you're not wrong, but it was a tense drive and nap with some beautiful scenery. I'll take it, but I hope it gets fully back into the main storyline with the severed floor next week (how that will shake out with what Mark is doing... no idea)
I did watch it at work. I'm a cook in a company that's not corporate. My innie is the drunk trying disrupt shit. My out is trying to keep or better vegetable prices.
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That scene wasn't about a nap. It was her breaking from grief as she explored her past and cried herself to sleep, then cut to the next scene.
It's like we're not watching the same show.
Having said all this, really want to get back into Severance because FOMO & friends I trust keep recommending it.
there was really great lighting in that 30-second cut of a person silently staring into an old abandoned room.
You learned nothing?! Only that Cobel invented the tech Lumon is using and was raised as a child laborer in a fucking ether factory that sucked the life out of the people there and then abandoned them and she's coming back pissed. Yeah that's probably not important at all.
-Star Trek: The Motion Picture
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt-tG6ufH90
They had to fill up the missing Lina Khan scenes with something.
Anyway, this episode also featured people huffing ether.
scene with Cobel?