I haven’t watched severance yet because if it does to me what Lost did to me I will just feel so much resentment at the end and I hate those kinds of shows.
It's a mystery box and Jason recently explained on TT why we have a love-hate relationship with these kinds of shows. It might be best for you to stay away from Severance until the show ends in case. I'm currently also watching "From" which is another one of these.
I’ve watched the first season and it’s really good…none of the Lost syndrome to it.
Haven’t touched the second season as yet so not sure how that one goes…
But Lost season 1 was also good. The problem was they set up a mystery with no thought as to what the answer to that mystery was, and just span it out season after season. Severance isn't really a mystery, tho it has mysterious elements.
S2 is progressing well. Severance is not characterised by the ad hoc narrative shifts of Lost, as far as I can tell. Ben Stiller has said that the conclusion is already established. I don’t think this would have been the case with Lost. It just meandered from the start - annoying!
Sometimes, I think that is why I usually dont start any series until they start talking about a remake … or at least until I know there is no danger of a new season.
Nah, have faith ya'll. Season one delivered with the promise for a complete story. It's coming full circle. We've been waiting for Patricia Arquette's character's story since S1E1 -- she's always been a key character. The mystery is unfolding -- that is why we're seeing more of the external world
I particularly loved how we saw why Harmony Cobel's character always seemed to speak with a strange cadence and word choice -- a bit eccentric. And then you meet her cult home and are like, "Oh shit, everybody talks that way where she's from."
Severance actually has tangible storylines that track toward resolution. Lost was lazy from the jump because there were infinite loopholes that never required explaining.
Sure, but again that’s the result studio meddling, not lazy writing. Damon Lindelof and his team did absolutely everything they could with what they were given. The studio notes/restrictions on that show were beyond ridiculous
Studio meddling doesn’t create the premise of the show. They wrote the ultimate mystery box show outside of traditional story structure. In the end people got what they signed up for.
The shows premise was literally created by the head of ABC. And he hired a team of writers to make it happen. They did the absolute best anyone could especially when the notes kept getting dumber and dumber
Yes. The mystery elements are very intriguing and well-written, but the emotional and allegorical aspects are the core of the story. If we're making Lindelof comparisons, it's more Leftovers than Lost
I could see that. But tbf, I think a lot of the meandering plot of Lost was due to the writers strike back then. I really hope that’s not how Severance will be!
Episode seven kind of proved that they know where they’re going. If you remember s1e3, Petey says, “there’s a department they don’t tell us about, one where you don’t get to leave”
My concern with watching Severance is that I'm six episodes in and I'm bored out of my mind and don't give a fuck about any of the characters, but I'm still watching it and BY CHRIST there had better be a payoff. If someone could tell me if I don't like it yet then I'm never going to like it, please
Agree with others that if you’re not hooked by now, it’s not for you. I loved it from ep1 but know people who took until end ep2 to get into it. But 6? I think says it’s not for you.
I think it's the best new show streaming — I don't get the Lost comparisons; it's thorough, not meandering storytelling — but if it's not for you, then it's not.
FWIW - Stiller & co say it's working toward a definitive ending, no pad just to milk it.
Thanks mate. No shade for people that are into it - and I get why they are - my failure to engage is down to personal taste. I don't get the Lost comparison either - but that show shat me ten minutes in. I couldn't get past one episode.
I'll probs finish this, it's not terrible and I am stubborn.
Nothing new has really grabbed me lately. Season 1 of Killing Eve was perfection, and it ruined me. Quite enjoyed Shrinking although overly sentimental. Not new, but Mr Inbetween is next level excellent, if you haven't seen it - do.
Open to recommendations!
I see so many people on here love this show and I don't see the appeal at all like what kind of f***** up evil s*** are you doing where they have to take away your memory of doing it.
Today that was me too. A very important set of characters and background for the overall plot come out of nowhere. Cobel is now the main character of the plot.
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Haven’t touched the second season as yet so not sure how that one goes…
It can feel a bit slow. But it always feels that it's heading in one direction.
Unlike LOST which kept adding random subplot along with TONS of pointless flashbacks to pad itself.
It plays with the narrative and audience perceptions a bit, but it's coherent.
I didn't make it through the first episode.
And you are spot on with your assessment of this great show
I think it's the best new show streaming — I don't get the Lost comparisons; it's thorough, not meandering storytelling — but if it's not for you, then it's not.
FWIW - Stiller & co say it's working toward a definitive ending, no pad just to milk it.
I'll probs finish this, it's not terrible and I am stubborn.
Open to recommendations!