Severance

Adam Scott has been great, in the finale he was excellent portraying the 2 personalities, gotta say Britt Lower has been great too.

Milchick is also great, man's got some moves too :)
 
i enjoyed the finale for season 2 milchick and his moves always crack me up. will be interesting to see where they go now with this.
 
Adam Scott should be up for an award after his performance in the finale, Milchek brought some humour to level the episode out, him running out of the room after speaking to Dylan was way funnier than it should have been.

Hopefully in s3 we'll get to see more of the other 'files' that Gemma had to deal with.


Half expected innie Mark to not go with Gemma after his talk with outie Mark at the start of the episode, wonder were they'll end up as it's not like they can escape Lumon.


Ben Stiller has said we'll not have to wait 3 years for s3 as it's already been written.
 
I thought the S2 finale was wonderful, had a great mix of tension, weirdness, frivolity and dark humour. Great acting all round.

The elevator scene with Drummond was an amazingly clever twist and I loved the way they handled the conversation between Mark's innie and outie selfs.

The ending throws up all manner of questions for S3 given that innies and outies inhabit the same physical body. Culpability for acts committed? What happens if innies don't / won't leave the severance floor? What's Cobel's ultimate gameplay and will Milchick turn? :)

Fantastic stuff.
 
Stu999 said:
Yeah, I found it a bit of a slog all the way up to E5 ish to be honest. I’d just try to stick it out as best you can. There is a good payoff for it and S2 is not along the same lines.
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I just jumped straight to the last 10mins Ep10, S2....it is kind of how I expect it to go but like 10hrs earlier.....makes me wonder how much padding and long camera shots are in this show! Weird thing is I don't feel like I ruined it but rather saved myself 18hrs of waiting lol
 
Raymond Lin said:
I just jumped straight to the last 10mins Ep10, S2....it is kind of how I expect it to go but like 10hrs earlier.....makes me wonder how much padding and long camera shots are in this show! Weird thing is I don't feel like I ruined it but rather saved myself 18hrs of waiting lol
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Nooo the ending to S1 was such a good pay off.

Delayed gratification Raymond, you can do it.
 
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I still like the concept and the moral questions are interesting. There were a few very good episodes this season but they weren't all great.

But there is an awful lot of plot contrivance and too many things it makes you think are significance when they aren't.

Like the big band. I get it; everyone loved dancing milchek in the disco bit in season 1. But that just felt absurdly contrived for a million reasons. For example, they have 50 -100 marching band players (who are supposedly innies as Helly was rallying them to help at the end) but not one security guard....! All very silly.

Still far too many unexplained ot points that I imagine will get forgotten/never explained too.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
Narh, I feel like I got 18hrs of my life back right now lol
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Some of the backstory episodes were a bit slow for sure. I felt they could have rolled 2 or 3 episodes in the middle of S2 into just one and achieved the same storytelling. But the acting is enjoyable enough to just about carry the padding.

Jono8 said:
Like the big band. I get it; everyone loved dancing milchek in the disco bit in season 1. But that just felt absurdly contrived for a million reasons. For example, they have 50 -100 marching band players (who are supposedly innies as Helly was rallying them to help at the end) but not one security guard....! All very silly.
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It's just meant to be very silly, the producers have admitted that certain things went in simply because it amused them. But there's a perhaps a loose point concerning how exactly do you entertain and reward innies who have no concept of what entertainment actually is in the outie world? But then a lot of what goes on in the outie world is just plain weird too, like Ricken's social gatherings, so I think it's just the producers / writers wanting to mess with peoples heads, just because they can. Which is fine, too much TV these days just plays it safe with the tropes.
 
Cern said:
It's just meant to be very silly, the producers have admitted that certain things went in simply because it amused them. But there's a perhaps a loose point concerning how exactly do you entertain and reward innies who have no concept of what entertainment actually is in the outie world? But then a lot of what goes on in the outie world is just plain weird too, like Ricken's social gatherings, so I think it's just the producers / writers wanting to mess with peoples heads, just because they can. Which is fine, too much TV these days just plays it safe with the tropes.
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Yeh but there is a fine line between boring tropes and doing something so weird/bizarre that it actually detracts from the immersion of the world/story you are trying to absorb your audience into.

To me, that scene was worse than any reused trope or convention because it was so immensely transparent that the creators just went "lol how about a dancing milchek scene but turned up to 11 with a 60 piece marching band! The fans will love it!". The season 1 scene worked as it was bizarre but still grounded in the world they created/believable. This scene was just silly because they pulled masses of musicians out of nowhere to participate with no explanation.
 
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