Well this show is fucking great. I thought you faggots said the golden age of television was over LOL.
>>216950666You clearly haven’t watched season 2
There's a significant drop in quality in season 2 however the s2 finale is genuinely one of the best pieces of television I've ever seen
>>216950666S1 was kino, season 2 was abysmal dogsit. Season 2 also confirms there is no overarching preplanned vision for the story, its just doing random shit like lost
>>216950726what random shit?
Mark drinking cum
>>216950666I need to watch my favorite YouTube reactors watch this nowThanks op
>>216950725>>216950698As someone who liked S1 and was looking forward to S2, the moment S2E01 started I already wanted to drop it. The whole episode was the writers jerking themselves off and fellating their shitty "community" (i.e., reddit). It was so quippy and gay it might as well have had a laugh track. I did not watch past S02E01. An awful end to what could have been a decent show
>>216951004its worth watching for the ending. its also a perfectly good ending to the whole series imo
>>216950698Season 2 is so much better. 1 looks like a boring work drama in comparison.
>>216950726>season 2 was abysmalNah. It was just very uneven.>no overarching preplanned vision for the storyIt answered literally every outstanding question from season 1, including the big main mystery box draw of finding out what Lumon were doing and why. If anything, they should have dragged things out longer like Lost did. Now literally the only draw the show has left is who's going to win the Mark Bowl.
i don't like who mark became he was so much more compelling in the first season
>>216951583A wild contrarian appears
>>216951682u talking about innie or outtie mark?
>>216950726I think they had a vision. They had to. Season 1 was just too deep. I think something happened in all those years in between seasons. I heard there was some fighting between the original writers over the direction of the show. Clearly it was the wrong one that won.
>>216951687I haven’t looked at any opinions beyond the critics and this thread (and I don’t even know which season they liked better on aggregate). So you’re wrong, no contrarianism.
You clearly haven't seen The Chair Company, everything that Severance wants to be.
>>216951682My only complaint with an otherwise nearly perfect first season was Mark killing Graner with the annoying scientist lady. It didn't make any sense. Why would his Outie be OK with sending his id card to his Innie, since it would implicate him in the murder. And they never followed up with the consequences of that at all.
>>216951901What's it about?
>>216951113Yeah s3 will just go even nowhere more fast then the first two seasons I have zero hope for it like stranger things it should not have gone past the first season
>>216951947Nothing wrong with that. He wanted to follow up on what Petey had been telling him. The real season 1 plothole is Helena returning to work knowing her innie wanted to kill her. There just isn’t a good explanation for why she would do that and they don’t even try to come up with one.
>>216952075Severance would have been such a missed opportunity with only one season. They just… leave? So boring.
>>216952075No, they just lost the vision of season 1. It was a good show. Multi year breaks between seasons are too long to keep a creative vision going. After multiple years of "development" and planning and meeting, focus testing, etc, it went from a passion project to just let's get the slop out and follow a mystery box formula.
>>216952151Season 1 had mystery boxes too. Did you even watch it?
>>216952120Helena was loyal to her father in season 1 and she needed to return to complete her piece on how great life as a severed worker was. It's only in season 2 that she shows any signs of dissent when her father condemns her and she starts dripping for Mark.
>>216952120>Nothing wrong with thatIf his innie got caught with the card (and he did) it would implicate him in the murder. Outie Mark wouldn't risk something like that.
>>216952170It did, but it wasn't formulaic at that point. I think there were multiple influences going on in season 1, but the creative vision and deep story one was dominant. The mystery box slop part was secondary and kept in check. Somehow during the long break it seems the power dynamic shifted.
>>216952120>There just isn’t a good explanation for why she would do thatShe was a true believer obviously. The severance has some occult religious significance to them. That was explained in the bathroom scene.
>>216951740both>>216951947his portrayal just felt off to me. i blame it on the writing.
>>216950666S02 solves all mysteties and ties everything up which is refreshing and commendable for a series. I think S03 will be enough, not least bc it's a show that takes too long to be released
>>216952457What are the numbers?
>>216952188>>216952277Yeah but she also clearly believes in self-preservation. It’s one thing not to believe in the finger threat, but waking up hanging in an elevator is action, not a threat.
>>216951982A chair company
>>216952243I don’t find it that way at all. I’m they’re there obviously but just as much as the first season, such as Ms. Casey going down to the testing floor and Irving’s paintings (which are also of the testing floor). Would the season have been worse without these mysteries? No. I’m surprised no one has mentioned season 2’s almost fatal plothole of Devon trusting Cobel for no reason.
>>216952913Not him but they’re data from Casey’s brain used to create new personas for her. It doesn’t make any sense (why not just give each new persona the same blank personality every time?) and it doesn’t need to, and explaining it further would probably ruin it the same way midichlorians ruined the force for some people.
Dylan G is fat and gross
>>216952974Yea that fucked me up Devon calls Cobel out of nowhere
>>216953209Not a woke character though. Instead of making him some gigachad pussy slayer on the outside, he’s the fat unemployable loser you would expect someone who looks like this to be.
>>216951901ugly and loud
>>216953228Nah you are
>>216953225I got over it because it was an interesting turn but it’s so nakedly illogical. >hey I know you used to hold my baby while lying to me about your identity but please help my brother break into the company you’ve been with for 50 years
>>216953262That is irrelevant.
>>216950666I don't know alot of normies from Twitter love that show. LOLZ
>>216953036They literally explain it in the s2 finale and the lead up to it. They are creating a general use severance chip that can isolate and block off all painful / traumatic memories and ONLY those memories. Speculation: The unused office space and workstations on the severed floor are going to be turned into an MDR megacenter for tailor-making chips to be sold to paying customers. At least that was the plan until Mark fucked yo their prototype.
>>216953209He’s the only one who would make working there tolerable. Does his job but doesn’t drink the kool aid and has a sense of humor.
>>216951901that reddit tier "comedian" pisses me off at a base level and I avoid anything he's in.
>>216952929She was raised in a cult from birth and is clearly scared of her father. She agreed to undergo experimental brain surgery just to take the severed job instead of simply faking it (which she's clearly capable of in season 2), so her dedication to the cause should be apparent. Only the power of Mark's giant schlong causes her to question the brainwashing.
>>216954203You really think no one would have mentioned the fact that she didn’t get the surgery to her father? Agreeing to get severed is not the same as agreeing to die.
>>216953526I think I missed that actually but nonetheless it doesn’t explain what the numbers have to do with it, at least not in a way that makes sense.
>>216954496>>216953526In fact are you sure that’s what happened? I remember in the finale they said no one would have to experience pain, not remember it. That’s the point of the birthing cabins - it’s not about removing the memory of giving birth, it’s about not experiencing it at all. Unless you’re saying you can flip a switch on the new chip to switch to an innie at any time. If so I definitely missed that.
>>216950666season 2 was alright, but felt too pretentious.I'm smarter than the writers, and this is how I would have gone about it >no 95 hour artsy episodes about harmony's backstory>instead focus entirely on the gang inside the office getting more and more rebellious within the office, with backsets now and then>explore more and more of the office, make diplomacy with the other departments and slowly introduce more characters and personalities>instead of showing harmony's backstory, just feed us bits of pieces, leave it ambiguous whether something really happened or is just a rumor among the departmentsI have no ideas about the outside-office stuff though. Maybe they could still show Harmony's story, but without so much pretentious artsy shit and without it taking up 99% of each episode somehow. the show's premise and execution is exciting because we have no idea about what is going on in the office, and they keep introducing weird and fascinating bits of lore and practices in there that are equally understandable and inconceivable, so that's what they should have focused on.
>>216954791I’m not going to pretend Cobel’s episode was a masterpiece but it was farther for 95 hours than literally any other episodes in the show, with only a 37 minute runtime.
>>216954791As long as Harmony doesn't get anymore flashbacks, I think her story was a good additionAt least for me, it answered most of the whats and why's of the severance chip
>>216950666>golden age of television was overit is. having one decent show doesn't make it a golden age
Well, /tv/?
>>216950725>the s2 finale is genuinely one of the best pieces of television I've ever seenliterally kys
>>216951113I can't watch past S2E01. S2 writing just turned every setting oddity and character quirk into a meme or in-joke. All that was missing was characters looking at the camera and winking. At least shows that get to this point after years of success earned the right to suck themselves off.
