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The Three S of Apple TV
See
Silo
Severance -my new favorite show. Got caught up on this one quickly.

 

[clarky]

The Three S of Apple TV
See
Silo
Severance -my new favorite show. Got caught up on this one quickly.

This theead is more active if youd like to discuss the new season.

But yeah the show is fantastic

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/severance-season-2-announced-for-january-17-2025.1672724/#post-270033476

 

[March Climber]

The Three S of Apple TV
See
Silo
Severance -my new favorite show. Got caught up on this one quickly.

I also enjoyed Sunny, Slow Horses, and Shrinking.

Apple TV shows starting with an S have been pretty good so far.

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

Great episode again. I love the milchick actor, perfect casting

 

[John Marston]

What a lovely delicious mindfuck so far.

I'm gonna PM NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt with a bunch of spoilers.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

What a lovely delicious mindfuck so far.

I'm gonna PM NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt with a bunch of spoilers.

 

[fran.fernandez]

I enjoyed the first season a lot more.

now the episodes don’t feel connected , any important event is soon forgotten.
I was waiting for season 2 for so long and now I felt sleep at the snow episode

 

[Dacvak]

Oh I didn’t know which thread we were using. That last episode was all over the place, and I really can’t tell if I mostly loved or hated it lol.

But hell…

 

[Sokka]

I enjoyed the first season a lot more.

now the episodes don’t feel connected , any important event is soon forgotten.
I was waiting for season 2 for so long and now I felt sleep at the snow episode

I enjoyed the first season much more, so far this season 2 is mixed for me.

I agree on episodes not feeling connected, episode 1 to episode 2 did not feel connected and episode 3 did not feel connected to 4.

 

[od-chan]

S2 is AMAZING so far. Miss Huang is honestly the best thing on television since the Moon Landing. Some of her scenes had me legit belly laughing.

Latest episode was kinda slow, but not every episode can be 10/10, but the pacing thus far has been honestly astonishing. This is especially obvious after coming from Silo S2, which was also great, but this blows that out of the water by miles.

Also, I checked in on /tv/ to see how they're feeling about it, since reddit is as sanitized as it gets, and picked up something interesting: Apparently in the first draft of the script Helly R was 19. There's a lot more changes, but this was one of the more intriguing ones to me, since it says a lot about the author (or at least the kind of story this was intended to be) that he chose to specifically make her that young at first, but the Hollywood execs obviously didn't let this fly. Never forget what they took from you ): Didn't read the the whole thing because I'm pretty sure it will give some major hints away, for example MDR is called "The Culling Department" in it, and I'm pretty sure that's something that ultimately will very much come into play in the show. Obviously this is is nothing new, that script had been online for years.

In the same vein I refuse to read the Lexington Letters (it's like an 18page pdf on Apple Books which is like a prequel/side story to the show) but obviously they're hugely important in figuring this out as well. Maybe I'll cave this week and finally read at least that.

E: Also, I rewatched S1 right before starting S2 and that turned out to be a really good decision.

 

[od-chan]

I don't care nobody else is positng, I need to vent

Holy shit this episode was bad. This is easily the worst episode of the show, but that's actually a pretty high bar. This is an episode that actually made me SKIP. SKIP. I don't do that, EVER. I won't user spoiler tags because that episode is so retarded and they basically introduced that plotline this episode, you would be wrong in caring about spoilers. I am, honestly, offended that they have the audacity to make a full episode on Cobel. Go live out your hag fetish somewhere else, her character stopped being interesting by the end of s1. I could write a short essay with all the things wrong about this. Starting with how this is basically cheap filler (cheap as in, hastly thrown together in terms of the plot) since everyone is waiting to see how the real story progresses, or how Severance really should learn from what happened to The Bear and don't inhale their own farts in too deply, because that might just backfire. Oh my lord all these long gratuitous nonsense shots of some fucking town. This episode reminded me of Silo, and how one character there appealed to someone to PLEASE STOP TALKING IN FUCKING MYSTERIES.

I get the show is a mystery, it's all mystery. What you don't do is invent some new bullshit to appease some antique lovers, pad out your episode count and have the audacity to present this as an actual episode in the body of this show. "sHe pUlLeD tHe pLuG hErS-" HOLY SHIT SHUT THE FUCK UP I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU YOUR NOT A PART OF THIS SHOW YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR 10 MINUTES, I'VE HATED YOU FOR ALL OF THEM (not in the good way like you hate Drummond or whoever) PLEASE STOP TALKING AND JUST LET THIS EPISODE END. OH, SHE THREW THE MAGIC PLOT DEVICE INTO THE FIRE SHE WAS STANDING RIGHT BEFORE, these are truly masterminds working on this higly intelectual show.

Honestly, fuck this episode. Last episode was also what you could consider filler, but that was at least connected to the actual story people give a shit about (and I liked it, a lot). This episode really makes me question the people who run this show.

 

[March Climber]

I am, honestly, offended that they have the audacity to make a full episode on Cobel.

I actually appreciate this spoiler so that I can keep my expectations in check. I fully understand the deflating feeling when everything is building up and suddenly a show veers into a separate plotline or flashback. Anime does it quite a bit.

 

[Shtef]

I am done with this show, it became so convoluted and hard to follow and nothing make sense anymore.
I liked the first season it was original and mysterious, this is just milking it on the success.

 

[Sokka]

I feel like the past few episodes told us something but also told us nothing at the same time, if that makes sense. I don't really like the direction the show is going, season 1 was mysterious in some ways but it didn't go.. overboard like season 2 has been doing.

Also, I have no idea why Mark's sister would turn to Cobel for help. Why would her sister trust her after the whole baby-kidnapping thing? And why would Mark go along with it since she knows she can't be trusted due to Cobel's double identity from season 1?

 

[wondermega]

Yeah last 2 eps were definitely filler-y. ESPECIALLY episode 8, and they know it. Why commit to a 10 episode series (I am assuming it's 10) if you are just gonna do BS like this. And I get it, it's convention, they can wring out a little more money, etc. Probably few shows are safe from that. But it does really kill the momentum and takes me out of it. Anyway - I was happy with the notion that there might be only a single season of this show, and had they killed it right there, it wouldn't have been a bad thing. Obviously I am invested enough to still be here, but I really do not want them to stretch out this story and world any longer past 2 more episodes. If they end this season on a cliffhanger I am burning my TV!

 

[Roufianos]

Caught up on all episodes, I think this show is good but having a hard time understanding the hype. I'd sooner recommend Silo, Black Bird and Presumed Innocent.

 

[Hugare]

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills (or everyone else is), 'cause I think this episode was pretty cool. Pretty great world building and Cobel's development. It was important to show the extent of Lumon's influence even in small towns, far away from that main building.

And how can anyone call this filler after the major reveal you get from the papers at the end of the episode is beyond me.

I don't care nobody else is positng, I need to vent

Holy shit this episode was bad. This is easily the worst episode of the show, but that's actually a pretty high bar. This is an episode that actually made me SKIP. SKIP. I don't do that, EVER. I won't user spoiler tags because that episode is so retarded and they basically introduced that plotline this episode, you would be wrong in caring about spoilers. I am, honestly, offended that they have the audacity to make a full episode on Cobel. Go live out your hag fetish somewhere else, her character stopped being interesting by the end of s1. I could write a short essay with all the things wrong about this. Starting with how this is basically cheap filler (cheap as in, hastly thrown together in terms of the plot) since everyone is waiting to see how the real story progresses, or how Severance really should learn from what happened to The Bear and don't inhale their own farts in too deply, because that might just backfire. Oh my lord all these long gratuitous nonsense shots of some fucking town. This episode reminded me of Silo, and how one character there appealed to someone to PLEASE STOP TALKING IN FUCKING MYSTERIES.

I get the show is a mystery, it's all mystery. What you don't do is invent some new bullshit to appease some antique lovers, pad out your episode count and have the audacity to present this as an actual episode in the body of this show. "sHe pUlLeD tHe pLuG hErS-" HOLY SHIT SHUT THE FUCK UP I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU YOUR NOT A PART OF THIS SHOW YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR 10 MINUTES, I'VE HATED YOU FOR ALL OF THEM (not in the good way like you hate Drummond or whoever) PLEASE STOP TALKING AND JUST LET THIS EPISODE END. OH, SHE THREW THE MAGIC PLOT DEVICE INTO THE FIRE SHE WAS STANDING RIGHT BEFORE, these are truly masterminds working on this higly intelectual show.

Honestly, fuck this episode. Last episode was also what you could consider filler, but that was at least connected to the actual story people give a shit about (and I liked it, a lot). This episode really makes me question the people who run this show.

She didnt throw those papers into the fire. She recovered them. Pay atention, dude.

 

[Bojji]

Last episode had some nice visuals but other than that it was the worst in the series. This stuff should take maximum 1/2 of episode not the whole of it.

 

[DrFigs]

last few episodes have been pretty boring.

 

[John Marston]

last few episodes have been pretty boring.

You can make your show vague and mysterious up to a point where I as a viewer lose patience and don't care anymore.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

You can make your show vague and mysterious up to a point where I as a viewer lose patience and don't care anymore.

What's your thoughts on Season 2?

 

[John Marston]

What's your thoughts on Season 2?

Very disappointed.
Started off good then got disjointed after the outside team building activity.

That whole episode with the "Origin" story of Mark & Gemma was a waste of time.
They were happy? Whoop tee-doo

I don't enjoy shows making me feel like I'm not intelligent
I bet that's why the show creators explain what the hell happened post credits after each episode.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Very disappointed.
Started off good then got disjointed after the outside team building activity.

That whole episode with the "Origin" story of Mark & Gemma was a waste of time.
They were happy? Whoop tee-doo

I don't enjoy shows making me feel like I'm not intelligent
I bet that's why the show creators explain what the hell happened post credits after each episode.

I've been keeping up to date on Season 2 and I might drop the show. It's a bad sign for me when I just am on the phone whenever I watch a episode. That Mark and Gemma backstory I also found super boring. Lot of people were raving about that episode and I just found it bad. This season has been a slog and looks like they are dragging stuff on

 

[John Marston]

I've been keeping up to date on Season 2 and I might drop the show. It's a bad sign for me when I just am on the phone whenever I watch a episode. That Mark and Gemma backstory I also found super boring. Lot of people were raving about that episode and I just found it bad. This season has been a slog and looks like they are dragging stuff on

When listening to the post credits commentary you can tell they love the smell of their own farts.

 

[missiles]

Done with this as well. It's either boring/depressing/confusing with no payoff. I'm tired of waiting for the big reveal that ties everything together when every episode is a disjointed mess.

Like Jez said to Mark in Peep Show "We could be watching Heat"

I'm out and don't care how it ends.

 

[Dacvak]

I don't enjoy shows making me feel like I'm not intelligent
I bet that's why the show creators explain what the hell happened post credits after each episode.

They do? Are they worth watching? Cause the show is so very intentionally obscuring to the point of frustration.

They’re trying so hard to get us to care about the Lumon’s origin and the Eagans in general, but they haven’t actually told us enough to get me to care. The plot line with Cobel has a small nugget of intrigue, but I doubt it’s gonna pay off. And there’s only like… a couple more episodes left. The wait for Season 2 was so freaking long, and if it doesn’t start getting better, there’s no way I’ll care enough to wait that long for a season 3.

 

[reinking]

When listening to the post credits commentary you can tell they love the smell of their own farts.

I too love the smell of their farts. I am really enjoying this season.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Done with this as well. It's either boring/depressing/confusing with no payoff. I'm tired of waiting for the big reveal that ties everything together when every episode is a disjointed mess.

Like Jez said to Mark in Peep Show "We could be watching Heat"

I'm out and don't care how it ends.

Not listening! I'll still watch it when it's finished!

And From!!

...I love punishment!

 

[Nonehxc]

First season was a masterpiece.

I'll reserve my judgement till the end, but right now, I'm totally in my compadre John Marston Juan's camp.

You can't keep teasing all the little mysteries that compose the BIG MISTERY in every fucking chapter like they're the fucking best shit then when they seem they're gonna reveal fucking something of that little mistery morsel, they go all obscure and mysterious again.

Maybe 9 and 10 will be a rollercoaster but right now they're milking every single side of it for little to no payout.

 

[John Marston]

First season was a masterpiece.

I hope we don't get another Westworld; great 1st season then off the rails with multiple shits hitting a lot of fans.

 

[Nonehxc]

I hope we don't get another Westworld; great 1st season then off the rails with multiple shits hitting a lot of fans.

I hope too, but I think we will be like ahh fuck off. They will give us some short BIG REVELATION and the nastiest cliffhanger ever. Something that should have been shown in just an episode, but they decided hey lets make a season of it and be hipster smort.

Westworld, I have a very soft and moist spot for it. It played a lot of my keys regarding to fiction, cinema, music and books with that cast and characters and all that awesome and fun happening every episode and I was clinking merrily throughout it like the happiest Tack Piano in any Saloon

 

[Vyse]

I hope we don't get another Westworld; great 1st season then off the rails with multiple shits hitting a lot of fans.

My concern as well. Cold Harbor was a bit of a head scratcher for me. Thought the last episode was pretty good. Really hope they don’t go off the rails.

 

[John Marston]

Thought the last episode was pretty good.

I instantly recognized James Le Gros which is weird because I mostly remember him from 90's indie movies

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

Perchance...I shall watch this group of moving pictures you call "The Severance".

Yes, I think I just may.

 

[fran.fernandez]

Aff. Saw ep 9.

It’s good but just felling like a waste of time now.

 

[FireFly]

First season was a masterpiece.

I'll reserve my judgement till the end, but right now, I'm totally in my compadre John Marston Juan's camp.

You can't keep teasing all the little mysteries that compose the BIG MISTERY in every fucking chapter like they're the fucking best shit then when they seem they're gonna reveal fucking something of that little mistery morsel, they go all obscure and mysterious again.

Maybe 9 and 10 will be a rollercoaster but right now they're milking every single side of it for little to no payout.

They revealed quite a lot in episode 7. Spoiler about big reveal:

Spoiler

There are strong hints that Lumon is developing a device to allow people to dissociate from suffering by having an innie for each potentially traumatic experience. Gemma is the test subject for this process, with each room attempting to "contain" the suffering in that room's innie, and the final test ("Cold Harbor") seeming to involve Gemma's innie experiencing or learning of her own death. In this week's episode it is made clear that Gemma really will be dying when Cold Harbor is completed.

 

[Nonehxc]

Perchance...I shall watch this group of moving pictures you call "The Severance".

Yes, I think I just may.

Praise Kier.

 

[EverydayBeast]

There was criticism for the marks girlfriend episode miss casey, at one point I was lost. The former manager episode and the origins of the company episode in particular let us know what went on.

Now all the things in the last episode, dillions actions, Halley e or d, Irving of course from a season 1 perspective was good.

 

[mitch1971]

Has the full season aired yet?

 

[Nonehxc]

Has the full season aired yet?

Should be one more next week.