Severance - TV series

[danny la rouge]

It’s the best show on telly, you nutters.
And certainly the most thought-provoking

No, at the moment that’s Slow Horses.

 

[Orang Utan]

No, at the moment that’s Slow Horses.

That’s second best.

 

[furluxor]

It’s the best show on telly, you nutters.
And certainly the most thought-provoking

you might very well be right
see telly is the problem, lowers your standards

(ed: fixing word order)

 

[souljacker]

Silo is also up there as 'best show around at the moment' and it's also on AppleTV+. Whilst Netflix seems intent on serving up really bad quality Sky shows like Brassic and whatever that spy thing is with the dim one from friends.

 

[Orang Utan]

you might very well be right
see telly is the problem, lowers your standards

(ed: fixing word order)

I don’t watch it much, I am very discerning and have exquisite taste

 

[Orang Utan]

‘Slow’ is an annoying adjective IMO. Slow isn’t necessarily a bad thing, yet it’s used pejoratively when talking about telly especially

 

[danny la rouge]

Silo is also up there as 'best show around at the moment' and it's also on AppleTV+. Whilst Netflix seems intent on serving up really bad quality Sky shows like Brassic and whatever that spy thing is with the dim one from friends.

I like Silo very much. It’s one of my favourites.

 

[belboid]

No, at the moment that’s Slow Horses.

tight between the two. SH may squeak it because it has held up over several series. But it doesn't have John Turturro and his wonderful face.

 

[belboid]

Silo is also up there as 'best show around at the moment' and it's also on AppleTV+. Whilst Netflix seems intent on serving up really bad quality Sky shows like Brassic and whatever that spy thing is with the dim one from friends.

Silo is certainly enjoyable, but it does show up its YA roots too much. And Harriet Walter is surprisingly annoying in it.

 

[Orang Utan]

Silo is certainly enjoyable, but it does show up its YA roots too much. And Harriet Walter is surprisingly annoying in it.

It doesn’t have YA roots.

 

[Silas Loom]

It was originally self-published fiction which was popular with YAs.

 

[souljacker]

Silo is certainly enjoyable, but it does show up its YA roots too much. And Harriet Walter is surprisingly annoying in it.

She really is. An actor of her ability must be able to do a better American accent than that.

 

[Orang Utan]

It was originally self-published fiction which was popular with YAs.

Not a YA book though. The protagonists are adults and it’s sci-fi with many egregious Fallout (video game) steals but not marketed or classified as YA.

 

[Orang Utan]

I am proper nerding out on this.
Have just finished rewatching S1 and listening to the recap podcast Streaming Things. Now full of ideas. I don’t usually speculate when watching anything as I prefer to soak it up, but this time I’m doing the opposite and have oodles of crackpot notions that I shall keep to myself.
and I’ve just found out there’s an official Severance podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott, so I’m going to watch S1 again for the third time. I never rewatch things normally!
Such a rich show full of mysteries and delights

 

[nagapie]

no, I meant all the channels.
Leagues ahead of any of those domestic dramas or police thrillers that the Beeb churn out.

Why don't I like it? I have no problem with things that move slowly normally. Maybe I should try again.

 

[nagapie]

I like Silo very much. It’s one of my favourites.

Hmmm, should I try it? Have avoided thus far because sci fi.

 

[danny la rouge]

Hmmm, should I try it? Have avoided thus far because sci fi.

Ah, well I like sci fi, so bear that in mind.

 

[lazythursday]

Apple has made the best and most original sci fi TV for years now - Silo, Severance, Foundation - can't think of anything else that comes close. All other platforms just want to milk existing franchises like Marvel, Star Wars / Trek etc.

 

[shifting gears]

Apple has made the best and most original sci fi TV for years now - Silo, Severance, Foundation - can't think of anything else that comes close. All other platforms just want to milk existing franchises like Marvel, Star Wars / Trek etc.

Have to largely agree, and with a Neuromancer series in development it looks set to continue. Prime probably deserves a nod for the likes of The Peripheral (annoyingly cancelled) and Fallout, too.

 

[Orang Utan]

Apple has made the best and most original sci fi TV for years now - Silo, Severance, Foundation - can't think of anything else that comes close. All other platforms just want to milk existing franchises like Marvel, Star Wars / Trek etc.

Is Foundation any good then? It looks terribly dreary. Not the most exciting source material either

 

[lazythursday]

Is Foundation any good then? It looks terribly dreary. Not the most exciting source material either

First season is hit and miss, but gets into it's stride in season two. I loved the books, but it takes huge liberties with them, it's definitely not for the Asimov purists.

 

[Brainaddict]

Is Foundation any good then? It looks terribly dreary. Not the most exciting source material either

I found it painfully awful to watch but some people seem to like it.

 

[Chz]

Not a YA book though. The protagonists are adults and it’s sci-fi with many egregious Fallout (video game) steals but not marketed or classified as YA.

It reads like it though. Which may be because it's self-published, but may also have been the intent. Plenty of YA stuff involves adults as main characters.

That being said, I'm not denigrating it by calling it that. There's excellent YA stuff, I just categorise it as "concept over writing". Wool is a great concept, the writing is... middling to poor.

Not sure how they managed to make the adaptation boring as fuck though.

 

[danny la rouge]

Not sure how they managed to make the adaptation boring as fuck though.

I like it. I don’t think it’s boring at all. It’s kept me waiting for each episode. Unlike Severance, which didn’t even keep me interested until the end of the first episode.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

This second series of Silo has been very slow, kept afloat by an interesting cast of actors. The most recent episode sped things up a lot, which is a problem with lots of modern tv shows....they tease everything then rush to bring in all together in the final two episodes. All that said, I've still enjoyed it.

 

[Orang Utan]

If they follow the books, season 3 and 4 are going to be full of incident

 

[belboid]

It's not boring, but it has been largely predicable. Including most of E9, especially the rubbish Harriet Walters' part. The very ending did take me by surprise, which was nice. I was assuming that we were much further along, bookwise, that the last part would be split into two seasons, like GoT etc. But it seems we're only at the end of the first one. Which should make it rather faster paced.

 

[belboid]

I am proper nerding out on this.
Have just finished rewatching S1 and listening to the recap podcast Streaming Things. Now full of ideas. I don’t usually speculate when watching anything as I prefer to soak it up, but this time I’m doing the opposite and have oodles of crackpot notions that I shall keep to myself.
and I’ve just found out there’s an official Severance podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott, so I’m going to watch S1 again for the third time. I never rewatch things normally!
Such a rich show full of mysteries and delights

bloody hell, I just looked at available podcasts. There are 52 episodes of the Severed one. Dont think I can quite be arsed with all that.

 

[danny la rouge]

If they follow the books, season 3 and 4 are going to be full of incident

I am not familiar with the books. I first became aware of Silo when the first season appeared on the menu on Apple TV+.

 

[bcuster]

My daughter recommended and I watched S1, E1 & E2.
Very hard to follow, but I liked it
Reminds me of of the "Lost" series
I'm glag there's a thread on Urban to discuss