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#Severance Intro - #Succession Style
(All Hail Lumon! and All Hail Waystar Royco!)@DanErixon @BenStiller @mradamscott @PattyArquette pic.twitter.com/g5ysbT4j2l

— Priyansh Kumar Jha (@innate_mediocre) June 27, 2022

Great show, gonna ask for a waffle party for my birthday next year for sure.

Just finished the finale….wow! Anxiety for 41 minutes just watching that.

Stick it out. My wife had the same reaction, but the last couple of episodes convinced her to go back and rewatch with me. It's a slow burn that ramps up exponentially.

Just finished, phenomenal.

Severance received 14 Emmy nominations: https://www.emmys.com/shows/severance

Four of them were for the season finale. Scott, Turturro, Walken, and Arquette all received acting nominations.

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Its pretty good, but maybe not so much for me. I like cool concepts but this is a bit slow and a bit of a reach. The first few episodes were way too slow imo. My wife completely bailed but i'll stick it out, if only for the strange tension it brings, and maybe a thing for a redhead.

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FYI, this was our household. My wife bailed early but I stuck it out because I kept hearing about it and knew there had to be a big payoff. She watched the last 3-4 episodes with me and is back in. The first half of the season is just building characters. The last episode we were both trying to guess what was going to happen next.

I bet there's a lot of people that are going to bail early. It's pretty slow to start, IMO, but when it gets going it doesn't stop.

Thisguy1 said:

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cbr said:

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Its pretty good, but maybe not so much for me. I like cool concepts but this is a bit slow and a bit of a reach. The first few episodes were way too slow imo. My wife completely bailed but i'll stick it out, if only for the strange tension it brings, and maybe a thing for a redhead.

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FYI, this was our household. My wife bailed early but I stuck it out because I kept hearing about it and knew there had to be a big payoff. She watched the last 3-4 episodes with me and is back in. The first half of the season is just building characters. The last episode we were both trying to guess what was going to happen next.

I bet there's a lot of people that are going to bail early. It's pretty slow to start, IMO, but when it gets going it doesn't stop.

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I was one of the early bailouts. Watched two episodes and forgot about it.

Mentioned it to my wife who thought it sounded crazy and wanted to try it. Rewatching the first episode, I was completely hooked

So, I've been avoiding this thread for a while even though I posted the OP - finally got through our Disney backlog and switched over. Boy, what a fantastic show.

Definitely has some of the best vibes from Lost. However, Lost was always analogous to a Ponzi scheme for me. Somehow, the solving one mystery by borrowing from another mystery left the impression they could never deliver on the final element of the story (and they didn't). I can't put my finger on it, but somehow Severance has managed to better satisfy some intrigue and reward its viewers with answers while meanwhile creating new intrigue. I've got a lot more confidence that the storytellers can ultimately reconcile most, if not all, of the loose ends.

Agree with a lot of the sentiment on the discussion. The visuals are excellent. Tramell Tillman's acting chops as Mr. Milchick's are superior - his ability to go from all smiles to stone cold and back are ridiculous. I also think they've hit the sweet spot in the real vs over-the-top feeling of a big corporate environment - very relatable for many office workers. My one criticism - Irving's OTC experience seemed mostly pointless. Definitely not as measured as Helly's and Mark's.

I'm really interested to see how Mark and Helly make it back to their Innie state. You'd think Lumon wouldn't let them back in and that they're a big risk to the company at this point, and likewise, why would Mark Scout go back in? Looking forward to season 2.

OldShadeOfBlue said:

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The Milkman said:

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Also, Are we to take it that the show is set in current time? Obviously inside they are working in a very 50s/60s aesthetic but it seems like the cars and style and whatnot outie are old too

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They have flip phones. What throws me off is the tech in the company is all old analog stuff. And Mrs Selvig speaks with a trans-atlantic accent which has pretty much died out a while back for people her age. All the music outside Lumon is 80's or 90's (metallica, motorhead). I'd guess it's early 2000's.

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IMO, I think they're going for a purposefully timeless look/setting. I don't think it takes place in any specific time period, other than the "modern era," obviously, in order to disorient the audience and give it an almost dreamy quality.

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OldShadeOfBlue said:

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The Milkman said:

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Also, Are we to take it that the show is set in current time? Obviously inside they are working in a very 50s/60s aesthetic but it seems like the cars and style and whatnot outie are old too

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They have flip phones. What throws me off is the tech in the company is all old analog stuff. And Mrs Selvig speaks with a trans-atlantic accent which has pretty much died out a while back for people her age. All the music outside Lumon is 80's or 90's (metallica, motorhead). I'd guess it's early 2000's.

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IMO, I think they're going for a purposefully timeless look/setting. I don't think it takes place in any specific time period, other than the "modern era," obviously, in order to disorient the audience and give it an almost dreamy quality.

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If you go back a few pages there were a couple articles posted about the design and the approach to it, definitely intentional mixing of analog and digital elements.

rynning said:

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It's pretty cool, but it is hard to reconcile (from episode 1) that innies know some general outside information (e.g, US states) but don't know what modern technology looks like. At least they never talk about when we're around.

I wonder if it will ever be explained or it's just part of the show's unique vibe. The only thing I can think of is for Lumin to ensure no connectivity to the outside world.

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I think this is the element of the show where you're just expected to suspend disbelief. If they shut out literally all memories of the outside world when they go in, how would they even know how to speak English, or remember basic human functions and experiences, like how to use devices or what certain foods taste like? How would you know how to read or write if you had no memory whatsoever of anything you've ever read or written?

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rynning said:

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It's pretty cool, but it is hard to reconcile (from episode 1) that innies know some general outside information (e.g, US states) but don't know what modern technology looks like. At least they never talk about when we're around.

I wonder if it will ever be explained or it's just part of the show's unique vibe. The only thing I can think of is for Lumin to ensure no connectivity to the outside world.

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I think this is the element of the show where you're just expected to suspend disbelief. If they shut out literally all memories of the outside world when they go in, how would they even know how to speak English, or remember basic human functions and experiences, like how to use devices or what certain foods taste like? How would you know how to read or write if you had no memory whatsoever of anything you've ever read or written?

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People with amnesia can still talk and read and write, and have an overall understanding of a lot of things beyond their missing memories. So perhaps the technology to control memory is more selective than we can understand now, but is theoretically still possible.

WoMD said:

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Scotts Tot said:

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rynning said:

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It's pretty cool, but it is hard to reconcile (from episode 1) that innies know some general outside information (e.g, US states) but don't know what modern technology looks like. At least they never talk about when we're around.

I wonder if it will ever be explained or it's just part of the show's unique vibe. The only thing I can think of is for Lumin to ensure no connectivity to the outside world.

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I think this is the element of the show where you're just expected to suspend disbelief. If they shut out literally all memories of the outside world when they go in, how would they even know how to speak English, or remember basic human functions and experiences, like how to use devices or what certain foods taste like? How would you know how to read or write if you had no memory whatsoever of anything you've ever read or written?

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People with amnesia can still talk and read and write, and have an overall understanding of a lot of things beyond their missing memories. So perhaps the technology to control memory is more selective than we can understand now, but is theoretically still possible.

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The opening scene establishes the effects of severance. Helly knows that Delaware is a state but not where she is from. She doesn't need to know know how that works, and neither do we, really. We start the show just as confused as she is and really only ever learn what she learns.

Just finished last night.

That. Was. Awesome.

Every time you find yourself here, it’s because you chose to come back.#Severance Season 2 filming has started. pic.twitter.com/4AgEFHEgV9

— Apple TV+ (@AppleTVPlus) October 31, 2022