Severance

[Google.com]

Eh... 6/10

 

[Quijibo69]

Eh... 6/10

Season 1 >>> Season 2 The problem with season 2 is it lost steam halfway through the season with the Emma stuff that I felt neutral about.

 

[Pedophobe]

For a show about Very Big Ideas it's just so insubstantial.

 

[BiggestKai]

Where the hell was this ~8 episodes ago
Like I liked it but it makes the rest of the season look like waste of time.

 

[HelpingNoone]

I'm out for next season; what a waste of time. Setting up reintegration for 10 episodes, then just using the elevators in the finale.

I didn't hate it as much as Nathan Fielder's The Curse though so there is that...

 

[Hitman One]

I thought it was good, maybe 8/10. Fuck you, Mr Milchick. I knew my boy Dylan would come through when it mattered. Would be fine if they just ended it for good here tbh.

 

[PositiveMonk]

statue in the cabin got me

Marching band makes no fucking sense to me whatsoever. Why do they need to be severed? Severance isn't some secret medical procedure, the world knows it exists. You can just have a normal non-severed marching band come to the floor for this celebration. Do they sever the janitors too? This doesn't seem cost effective.

 

[BiggestKai]

statue in the cabin got me

Marching band makes no fucking sense to me whatsoever. Why do they need to be severed? Severance isn't some secret medical procedure, the world knows it exists. You can just have a normal non-severed marching band come to the floor for this celebration. Do they sever the janitors too? This doesn't seem cost effective.

It's just eyecandy, the previous season had the jazz sequence so this also needed to have it's own gif-able musical sequence.

 

[Jizzrag]

The video conversation between the Marks were good. The condescending way oMark talked about his innies feelings about «Heleny» really showed that oMark does not think of him as a person.

Poor Gemma though, first getting rescued by her husband, then watch him choose someone else. The fat man’s accidental death was great lol.

I liked the ending, looking forward to S3

 

[Google.com]

Season 1 >>> Season 2 The problem with season 2 is it lost steam halfway through the season with the Emma stuff that I felt neutral about.

My problem wasn't just the pacing, for the last couple episodes we barely see anything on the severed floor which was like half the point of the show. Also, Milchick is the biggest fucking idiot ever to the point it doesn't even make sense how stupid he is, his decisions make no sense unless he was trying to purposely sabotage the company which he doesn't seem to be.

 

[Sand]

I’m just glad they didn’t pull the “finish Cold Harbor and cut to black” or “reach the testing floor and cut to black” shit that I was expecting. That’s a positive, I guess.

I will say I’m having a good laugh at the retards who had all these elaborate theories about what Cold Harbor was and turned out it was just Gemma taking apart a crib.

However, we absolutely did not need ten episodes to reach this point. So much of this season was pointless.

 

[ProfDongs]

It was much better than the majority of the season, but I don't think that's saying much since most of it was filler. The entire reintegration plot line went nowhere and was only used to build intrigue without any pay off. I don't have high hopes for another season doing something interesting.

 

[BiggestKai]

I'd like to say I won't be watching but like the battered wife I am I have to see how it ends. We have to go back.

 

[Brutality]

I'd personally rank that episode an 8/10 at the absolute highest. The argument between innie and outie Mark at the start made for an interesting thought experiment imo and the matching band experience at the end of cold harbor was a funny little gimmick. I was totally right about my theory I had after season 1 being that the data was Gemma's memories (even though I didn't know how the other 3 could have the same reactions to the data since they didn't know her)

I don't like the ending, even though with the show's massive popularity i could see it coming. A thought i had was that it was Helena that was running away with mark at the end but apparently the actress confirmed that it was Helly.

I'll give season 3 a shot but if it's revealed that Gemma is just immediately recaptured I will stop watching immediately. To have the entire season build up to that moment only for it to not even matter would be the ultimate fuck you for everyone that got invested.

Overall I'd give season 2 a 7.5/10, there were too many filler episodes but the episodes that mattered were excellent

 

[Google.com]

Season 3 is definitely going to be about some sort of innie rebellion.

 

[Hitman One]

The video conversation between the Marks were good. The condescending way oMark talked about his innies feelings about «Heleny» really showed that oMark does not think of him as a person.

Poor Gemma though, first getting rescued by her husband, then watch him choose someone else. The fat man’s accidental death was great lol.

I liked the ending, looking forward to S3View attachment 7119112

Adam Scott was absolutely brilliant. They gave him a lot to work with but he killed it. The camcorder conversation was a highlight. Mark and Gemma reuniting was as touching as it was heartbreaking and so was his delivery of "yeah, but I wanna live with you" to Helly when he's refining the last of Cold Harbor.

I really didn't think he had the range but I was totally wrong.

 

[Mackerel Fish Stew]

All I could think about watching the last few minutes, where the fuck are they running to? What is the plan, live off goat meat and vending machine fruit leather?

 

[HelpingNoone]

I definitely agree the finale was one of the better episodes. But, thats because most of the other episodes were lackluster.

I feel like we won't get answers to most of the plot lines at this point. And if we do it will be surface level, like the goats, which turns out to be some weird killing ritual just because. Marching band? Just weird, don't ask questions.

It feels more like a generic "fuck capatlism/it's weird" story rather than something tightly weaved. Or maybe "I just don't get it" like the mass audience cope.

 

[Terror Sandwich]

I liked season 2, it's significantly weaker than 1, but still enjoyable.
The biggest problem was the pacing, it was all over the fucking place. A better editor could have made it much better.
I liked the Cobel episode, but it was way too short, while also feeling a bit too dragged on. Maybe having some Severed floor shenanningans spliced through the episode could have made it a lot better

I'm very disappointed that the reintegration went literally nowhere, the only thing lead to was Mark and Cobel working together, but it could have been done another way.
Also, another plot point that went nowhere was Mark's Bother in Law writing a book for the innies at Lumon, I don't see how it can be relevant in S3 after this ending.
The gay subplot was also mostly pointless.

Season 3 will clearly be about the conflict between Innie and Outie.
Unless the writers go full retarded, Lumon will probably get fucked early in the season, now that Gemma is out, and the story will be about how society deals with the Innies wanting to have their own lives.

Edit:
Just adding after thinking some more: I don't think they will ever have a satisfying solution to the innie vs outie conflict that they have just introduced.
Reintegration is clearly not the solution, Mark S. made it clear this episode, and I don't think the writers would make it the "correct" answer, even though I personally think it's the best solution.
The only other alternative I can think is continuing to split their lives, where each one lives for 12h or so. But that also sounds nightmarish in a sense.

 

[The Repeated Meme]

All I could think about watching the last few minutes, where the fuck are they running to? What is the plan, live off goat meat and vending machine fruit leather?

That's a good point. Guess you'll have to wait until season 3 to find out!