Severance

Can't tell if Walken is just being Walken, but suspicions raised.

bolok said:

Can't tell if Walken is just being Walken, but suspicions raised.

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Absolutely suspicious.

"Hey, come over to my house while an Eagan bag man goes through your shit"

They really gave us a dinner scene with Walken, Noble and Turturro and it was amazing.

Burt def helped develop Severance.

If you are not watching this show you are doing yourself a massive disservice. This season is peak TV.

Also, what year is it? I think all the vehicles we've seen are from 80s / early-90s era.

ShakyJake said:

Also, what year is it? I think all the vehicles we've seen are from 80s / early-90s era.

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I assume it's current day Michigan. I know it wasn't filmed in Michigan but good heavens does it look like Michigan.

ShakyJake said:

Also, what year is it? I think all the vehicles we've seen are from 80s / early-90s era.

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I've been having this convo with my wife since all the cars in the Lumon lot are straight out of the 80's. The entire town is strange, its like an alternate reality, and its completly cut off from the rest of the world. You would think its the 80's but you have scenes like this

I feel like it's just an aesthetic thing to give a certain vibe.

The plot is still interesting but I was more entertained by season 1.

It's entertaining enough, but to be honest it suffers from the same thing every other mystery box type show does, and that's that it just can't help itself from introducing more and more weird shit without ever answering questions.

If this was the first show to do it, I'd probably not care. But ever since LOST it feels like I've seen dozens of shows do this and it just becomes frustrating. Mostly because I already know going into this that they'll never resolve most of my questions about what the fuck is going on.

We all like to pretend the writers are world class and everything we've seen, from the setting, to the weather, to the characters, to the history, and on and on, has been well thought out and has a purpose to tie it all together. But I've seen enough of these shows at this point that the best case scenario is some jackass behind the scenes thought putting ambiguously old vehicles into a semi-modern setting would look really cool, or that the unnatural way all of the characters in the real world interact with each other might be meaningful, but it's really just a narrative device which had no thought behind it except it being stylistic.

I'd love to be wrong, but not once has a Hollywood writer pulled it off.

What it feels like is the second season of a show already approved for a third. The story it's telling just isn't as carefully crafted as it was during it's first season. We spent the first two episodes getting everyone back where they were prior to the conclusion of season one. The S1 conclusion amounted to very little. Now we're six episodes in with four to go and the thread between episodes is thin. Stuff is happening but I don't know what we're building towards. I don't mean that in a mysterious way either. I'm expecting that everything is going to get very serious very quickly for the last two episodes before the pacing slams in to a brick wall at the start of S3 as we meander around waiting for the story to be about something again.

Its definitely an alternate future or something, you don't see a lot of religious stuff except Kier is like a super cult (Mormon) of hardcore true believers. Maps have shown that the state they are in is Kier, PE which is obviously fake. People have speculated that since Lumon was founded in 1865 the same year the civil war ended it may be an alternate future where the civil war never happened or the south won (unlikely given milkshake and nat are black and execs) or some minor deviation. Lumon is using 90s tech and cars but people have apple phones too, bluetooth, etc.

Burt 100% works for Lumon and has for decades, I thought Irv and Burt were slowly gonna get written off the show but that doesn't seem likely. Seeing John Noble show up was awesome, I was half worried we'd get some gay lemon party orgy scene with Walt from Fringe, ass watch Pulp fiction guy, and and Carmine Falcone but you know what, the 3 of them are such legendary actors that I woulda watched while crying and puking into a bucket. I'm hardened by all the surprise butthole pics, King Dong, and tranny dicks over the years at FOH.

Walken appears as a guest on this weeks Severance podcast, hosted by Stiller/Scott. I think its the only time he has ever talked on a podcast

bigolas said:

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This is better than i expected.

Given the cuteness with nicknames and timelines and John Noble being John Noble, Fields is Helena's dad right ?

Explains being very invested in whether innies have souls or not etc.

It's going to be a polarizing episode but me down on the side of not liking it.

Think the biggest takeway was that Gemma is split 3 ways. So people can be severed into more than just 1 person. Wonder if they're trying to important Kier's brain into some ones severed brain.

Kind of interesting they showed Mark/Gemma's relationship kinda on the rocks at the end right before she "died". This whole time you think he's crushed because he's so madly in love with his wife, but they seem to be just above the level of a two-ships-in-the-night relationship.