Severance - TV series

[girasol]

I started to feel myself getting bored on season 1 - too much running around corridors ffs. But stuck with it. Then abandoned on episode 2 or 3 of Season 2. It's just really dull and not really original, even though it likes to think that it is. I mean, the concept itself might be original but the dialogue and the characters? meh

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The whole city, including Devon's friend who Mark dates and the audience at Petey's daighter's punk band they go and see? Yeah the cars are old and PE is not a valid US State abbreviation, but this is a fictional world that contains an all-powerful cult-corporation so IMO all that stuff is just flavour to remind us that we're in an alternate timeline/universe.

Invoking layers of simulation is lazy writing alongside "it was all a dream" - I think this show is above that.

And the claim was made that Lumon operates in 206 countries when we only have 195 in our real world. I think it is a real world, just not ours.

 

[Plumdaff]

And the claim was made that Lumon operates in 206 countries when we only have 195 in our real world. I think it is a real world, just not ours.

I also think they are a cult like organisation prone to make shit up that sounds good.

"the tallest waterfall in the world"

 

[Crispy]

And the claim was made that Lumon operates in 206 countries when we only have 195 in our real world. I think it is a real world, just not ours.

195 countries at the UN (plus Palestine and the Vatican who can look but not touch). But you can get it up to ~205 with things like Taiwan, Kosovo, North Cyprus etc. 206 is the highest cited number if you google the Q.

 

[belboid]

In the 'official' podcast they talked about filming that episode in a remote location in upstate New York that took a lot of effort. I don't think they would have done that if we were meant to think it's immersive indoors, so I'm with you. Also tons of America does look really brown and old fashioned and their cars do look old compared to European ones - I've hung out with family in rural Michigan and Illinois and it doesn't look strange to me. I buy that it's just an odd, remote, company town.

It’s set at least ten years into the future, so anything could have happened.

 

[Orang Utan]

I also think they are a cult like organisation prone to make shit up that sounds good.

"the tallest waterfall in the world"

It is the tallest waterfall in the innies’ world though.
They are as ignorant as babies, don’t forget

 

[Orang Utan]

And the claim was made that Lumon operates in 206 countries when we only have 195 in our real world. I think it is a real world, just not ours.

They might be fibbing. They fib a lot and the innies know no different.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I’m going to be bloody annoyed if the twist, when it comes, is shit.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m going to be bloody annoyed if the twist, when it comes, is shit.

i’m not sure there will be a twist, rather that a mystery will be solved

 

[Agent Sparrow]

i’m not sure there will be a twist, rather that a mystery will be solved

That too. I mean the reveal it’s all leading up to.

 

[Augie March]

I would like a spin-off series with John Turturro, Christopher Walken and John Noble please. Perhaps as a modern day Man About The House where they get into farcical situations and hilarious misunderstandings.

 

[Orang Utan]

I would like a spin-off series with John Turturro, Christopher Walken and John Noble please. Perhaps as a modern day Man About The House where they get into farcical situations and hilarious misunderstandings.

You’d have to call it Thrupple.

 

[keybored]

You’d have to call it Thrupple.

Ménage à Cinq

 

[Augie March]

Lumen About The House

 

[kalidarkone]

In the 'official' podcast they talked about filming that episode in a remote location in upstate New York that took a lot of effort. I don't think they would have done that if we were meant to think it's immersive indoors, so I'm with you. Also tons of America does look really brown and old fashioned and their cars do look old compared to European ones - I've hung out with family in rural Michigan and Illinois and it doesn't look strange to me. I buy that it's just an odd, remote, company town.

It looked really fake to me. But that's just my perception.

 

[bcuster]

Has the newer episode run in your time zqne yet?

 

[T & P]

Has the newer episode run in your time zqne yet?

Yes but haven’t seen it yet. How did you like it(spoiler free please)?

 

[bcuster]

Yes but haven’t seen it yet. How did you like it(spoiler free please)?

I'm 6 hours behind you. I'm watching later tonight!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

When do they come out?

 

[T & P]

When do they come out?

Out on Fridays.

 

[bcuster]

Why doesn't Helena Eagan recognize Mark? Is she lying?

 

[belboid]

Yes

 

[Orang Utan]

Why doesn't Helena Eagan recognize Mark? Is she lying?

She does. She even asks if he’s Mark Scout. And it wasn’t a chance meeting. She’s rather cruelly fucking with him. She know’s his wife’s name too and deliberately got it wrong to needle him.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

She does. She even asks if he’s Mark Scout. And it wasn’t a chance meeting. She’s rather cruelly fucking with him. She know’s his wife’s name too and deliberately got it wrong to needle him.

I’m not sure if she’s cruelly doing it, at least not intentionally. Selfishly certainly. She’s had complex feelings about him ever since seeing her innie kiss him. I imagine it’s lonely at the top.

 

[Plumdaff]

I’m not sure if she’s cruelly doing it, at least not intentionally. Selfishly certainly. She’s had complex feelings about him ever since seeing her innie kiss him. I imagine it’s lonely at the top.

This. She's slept with him, although outie Mark doesn't know. OK, she was pretending to be Helly, but her feelings are at least ambiguous.

I thought that scene was great. There was an odd, fucked up chemistry between them.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

This. She's slept with him, although outie Mark doesn't know. OK, she was pretending to be Helly, but her feelings are at least ambiguous.

I thought that scene was great. There was an odd, fucked up chemistry between them.

And which brings up further questions about how the different types of memory work. Is there something implicit, on whatever tenuous level, about face recognition? Can you feel familiar with someone’s face without being able to consciously recognise them? Memento would suggest not - it’s just acting because you feel it’s socially expected.

Having said that and going back to prior conversations about types of memory, are there any indications that innies can learn something that becomes automatic and which their outies then do, and vice versa since the severance procedure? I’m not sure there has been - all transferred skills and knowledge seems to have been from pre severance.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m not sure if she’s cruelly doing it, at least not intentionally. Selfishly certainly. She’s had complex feelings about him ever since seeing her innie kiss him. I imagine it’s lonely at the top.

I disagree, she is totally fucking with him

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I disagree, she is totally fucking with him

I mean, she doesn’t come across as particularly psychologically adjusted, or at least as having much ability to mentalise (for fucked up family reasons). So she could be thinking she’s fucking with him whilst not being aware of having lurve motives; or be well aware of them but only knowing how to pull pigtails.

 

[souljacker]

Her outie has already shagged him so she's either into him or she's prepared to do anything for the company. She's also completely subservient to her father. I think he's pulling the strings and she does whatever he or the board ask, which currently is 'fuck with his outie as much as possible'. I don't really get why though. What if decides to not come in to work and therefore doesn't complete the refining?

I have no idea what is going on with Dylan G and meeting his wife though. She seems to be in on something but I can't see what.

One thing this season needs is more Ricken and his mates.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I have no idea what is going on with Dylan G and meeting his wife though. She seems to be in on something but I can't see what.

I just think she likes him more than his outie. Whether Lumon realised that would happen is the question.