The buildup was just right considering a second season is coming next year.
Why should they rush things and blow their load after just a few episodes when revealing the mysteries and building up tension slowly works much better?
>slow
It literally isn't though. This is coming from someone who thinks Succession is boring and slow, so I probably have the Tiktok brain, but this show never felt slow or boring to me.
It wasn't nonsense. It was clearly satirizing the way that companies "reward" their employees with meaningless gestures like pizza parties instead of improving their lives in a meaningful way (like by raising their wages). The entire show is about how workers are treated like robots instead of people.
its just what the company decided on for entertainment. seems like they can't reference the outside world at all so all their left with is some interpretive dance thing. you can't show them sometthing with meaning or it might inspire them to revolt i'd imagine
It's a spoof but a very realistic one about working a menial cubicle job. It's like going several years without raises or reviews being given out, then upper management will treat the employees to a pizza "party," which means there will be Little Caesars and some 2 liters of soda in the breakroom from 12-2pm >t. former call center manager
The innies can never have their sexual desires fulfilled because this would look bad to the outies (there's even a newspaper article about that IIRC?). But a titillating sex show would be okay, because ultimately there's no way for an outie to figure out it happened.
Lumen leverages the innie's unfulfilled sexual desires to get them to be more productive. Simple as.
It's just face blindness combined with not having real life negative experience associated with their appearance like you would with those you grew up around.
A big ass is less evolved and an indication that your ancestors started walking upright more recently. Wide birthing hips are what you should be attracted to.
First I thought she had some secret plan to infiltrate the company to safe her dead/lost husband or whatever family member it was. It might have been her mother because I remember her contradiction herself at one point saying her mom was a devout Christian at one point and a militant atheist at another.
After that little altar scene I honestly have no idea what the frick her deal is. After s1 she just seems like a crazy corporate climber who worships the company as an actual religion.
Their outie died (brain dead), but the severance chip saved their lives.
Milcheck isn't ready yet and has to stay at the office full time.
But Kobels is an old model and closer to her original outie. Her deal is she wants to see if love can transcend severance. Because if it does, then her feelings are justified for what she's done in the name of Kier, because of Charlotte (whom ever that is)
I like ben stiller stuff but I refuse to watch anything with adam scott. He sucks so hard that even being in something for a few brief seconds immediately ruins the entire show/film. Whose fricking son is he?
I enjoyed it a lot, but one issue I had with this show is the lack of true disobedience by the workers. Since they're coerced to their job, what keeps them from just saying "I refuse to work"? What keeps them from refusing to be put in a torture room, and violently resisting if they try to put them there by force? They were slaves, and actual slavery requires the use or threat of violence to prevent disobedience, but in the show that's never addressed. Is it just that the only people who would volunteer for severance were already broken, so they had no will to resist whatever they were told, and that's why the woman was more resistant?
I also struggled with the idea that after her innie tried to kill her she'd give it control of their body again with some vague threat about torturing her if she didn't obey. What an absurdly reckless thing to do. People with a history of suicide attempts very frequently repeat it and succeed. Especially since she's dead anyway once the outie "retires" her after years of thankless drudgery. I had a hard time swallowing that. If the innie kills herself you die too, so why give her that power?
It's not explicitly stated but some of them like it, most have given up, only Helly is super crazed still.
I think, based on Mark saying how he tried to kill the interviewer or whatever his first year, he was like her but gave up.
I got the impression that the innies are pretty much children who still need the right upbringing and are essentially being schooled.
All they have are instincts and the subconsciousness of their outies that allows them to function like human beings.
People don't know they are slaves when it is their entire existence, see everyone in reality right now.
This is the worst time in humanity's existence to be alive in all ways and people dedicate the most hours to survival.
>This is the worst time in humanity's existence to be alive in all ways
when I was a kid a dental X-Ray found that I had a cyst in my jaw around one of my wisdom teeth that had to be surgically removed. If I had lived in a time without modern medicine it would have gone undiscovered until it eventually became infected, then made me septic and killed me. I would have died as a child of "fever" which was very common before modern medicine. How was that better?
congrats, now you can be productive for a full 50 years.
>This is the worst time in humanity's existence to be alive in all ways
when I was a kid a dental X-Ray found that I had a cyst in my jaw around one of my wisdom teeth that had to be surgically removed. If I had lived in a time without modern medicine it would have gone undiscovered until it eventually became infected, then made me septic and killed me. I would have died as a child of "fever" which was very common before modern medicine. How was that better?
>mom likes the actors in this >we watch tv shows together sometimes >try to show her this >she's totally lost >can't understand that there are two sets of the same characters >can't follow that we're being told stories forward and backwards >gets none of the humor >none of the symbolism >none of the references to America's history (Ford, offshoot modern religions in America like Unitarianism, Adventists, etc) >she's never worked in an office so even the corporate America lambasting went over her head
Feels bad.
It's presented as an office but it's an allegory for schooling, with almost non-existant commentary on pharmacology which otherwise would have been the dominant theme.
the employees can never have sex they only work. waffle party is just a code word for sex party its not that deep. there's male and female dancers present and presumably you can frick them. company probably steals the cum and makes clones or to keep Kiers alive longer or uses it in the severance devices
This is literally the worst Hugh budget dross I've ever seen.
Filler, filler, filler.
Every single episode is just a rip off of black mirror - roof, bam, kiff. The twist: sometimes the black mirror shite is set underground or set in a freezing cold town beside a river ...
Nevermind, it's just some tie-in promotional thing, not an actual book.
Starts with some in universe email from 'Daria' to 'Jim', and then contains a copy of the 'Employee Handbook'.
Couldnt get through it, too boring and slow
The buildup was just right considering a second season is coming next year.
Why should they rush things and blow their load after just a few episodes when revealing the mysteries and building up tension slowly works much better?
Why complete a coherent thought when we could
>slow
It literally isn't though. This is coming from someone who thinks Succession is boring and slow, so I probably have the Tiktok brain, but this show never felt slow or boring to me.
You're right about Succession though anon. Give yourself more credit
This is the kind of poster that should be permanently banned.
>we need someone to play the douchebag
I like it. Definitely watching S2. Loved the dance scene.
I bet you got hard when the old homosexuals were slurping each others tongues, licking each others tonsils.
>Sup, homosexuals?
What was the waffle party about? You get to watch people in costumes do this weird sex dance? What was that about?
Lynchian nonsense and I love every second of it.
It wasn't nonsense. It was clearly satirizing the way that companies "reward" their employees with meaningless gestures like pizza parties instead of improving their lives in a meaningful way (like by raising their wages). The entire show is about how workers are treated like robots instead of people.
its just what the company decided on for entertainment. seems like they can't reference the outside world at all so all their left with is some interpretive dance thing. you can't show them sometthing with meaning or it might inspire them to revolt i'd imagine
It's a spoof but a very realistic one about working a menial cubicle job. It's like going several years without raises or reviews being given out, then upper management will treat the employees to a pizza "party," which means there will be Little Caesars and some 2 liters of soda in the breakroom from 12-2pm
>t. former call center manager
The innies can never have their sexual desires fulfilled because this would look bad to the outies (there's even a newspaper article about that IIRC?). But a titillating sex show would be okay, because ultimately there's no way for an outie to figure out it happened.
Lumen leverages the innie's unfulfilled sexual desires to get them to be more productive. Simple as.
Don't you get tired spamming this boring homosexual slop?
I just finished watching it though.
jus finished it saturday
very kino show, cant wait for s2
sex with Helly
a cute
Mark will tweak the frick out when his memories merge and he suddenly loves two women.
he wouldn't be able to love a chinawoman after meeting helly
Please post the webm
You know the one
Your Outie is a kind person
Hngggg take all my cummies mommy
I really wish I didn't have Asian fever because it's such a stereotypical thing, but I just find Asian women so unbelievably hot.
Sometimes something is stereotypical to enjoy because it's objectively good compared to alternatives
It's just face blindness combined with not having real life negative experience associated with their appearance like you would with those you grew up around.
You and half of Cinemaphile it seems like.
she's a fox if anything, this has been established.
Learn the lore newb!
She is old and has resting b***h face. No thanks.
you're a homosexual so it doesn't really mean much
Wanna do a straight-off? I bet I'd win.
they only way you could win would be to frick a guy to prove you hated it, which is gay. so wanting to win that contest makes you gay
I have sex with females. You have sex with noone. That makes you more gay. Nothing personal kiddo.
someone post the ass pic
no man can resist
Quite. https://youtu.be/xP7EvEMMUDo
Also, Helly.
Why do I like tight asses like this more than round ghetto booty?
>why do I prefer women who care about their health and fitness
Jeez anon. I dunno
Because you are white.
Congrats you are white
Hello my Aryan brother
A big ass is less evolved and an indication that your ancestors started walking upright more recently. Wide birthing hips are what you should be attracted to.
>None of the workers tried to rape Helly.
This show is so unrealistic.
What the frick is wrong with this b***h?
First I thought she had some secret plan to infiltrate the company to safe her dead/lost husband or whatever family member it was. It might have been her mother because I remember her contradiction herself at one point saying her mom was a devout Christian at one point and a militant atheist at another.
After that little altar scene I honestly have no idea what the frick her deal is. After s1 she just seems like a crazy corporate climber who worships the company as an actual religion.
At the same time she shows some actual care for Mark like an obsessed mother.
Wasn't it made clear her outie is teh boss lady and her inner is the one thats the neighbor?
she's not severed
Kobel and Milcheck are the same as Ms Casey.
Their outie died (brain dead), but the severance chip saved their lives.
Milcheck isn't ready yet and has to stay at the office full time.
But Kobels is an old model and closer to her original outie. Her deal is she wants to see if love can transcend severance. Because if it does, then her feelings are justified for what she's done in the name of Kier, because of Charlotte (whom ever that is)
>Milcheck isn't ready yet and has to stay at the office full time.
except that time he left the office and started the whole downward spiral?
mommy
>Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
tfw hug available on request
I wanna take my outtie into her innie
Back to your containment board.
cope
>february 18th 2022
feels like the first season was half a decade ago
I like ben stiller stuff but I refuse to watch anything with adam scott. He sucks so hard that even being in something for a few brief seconds immediately ruins the entire show/film. Whose fricking son is he?
That's a strong reaction, I don't feel that way at all.
The guy can't even speak properly, he has some kind of speech impediment that makes him sound like a flaming homosexual doing adam sandler baby talk.
i gasped twice during the first season
I enjoyed it a lot, but one issue I had with this show is the lack of true disobedience by the workers. Since they're coerced to their job, what keeps them from just saying "I refuse to work"? What keeps them from refusing to be put in a torture room, and violently resisting if they try to put them there by force? They were slaves, and actual slavery requires the use or threat of violence to prevent disobedience, but in the show that's never addressed. Is it just that the only people who would volunteer for severance were already broken, so they had no will to resist whatever they were told, and that's why the woman was more resistant?
I also struggled with the idea that after her innie tried to kill her she'd give it control of their body again with some vague threat about torturing her if she didn't obey. What an absurdly reckless thing to do. People with a history of suicide attempts very frequently repeat it and succeed. Especially since she's dead anyway once the outie "retires" her after years of thankless drudgery. I had a hard time swallowing that. If the innie kills herself you die too, so why give her that power?
It's not explicitly stated but some of them like it, most have given up, only Helly is super crazed still.
I think, based on Mark saying how he tried to kill the interviewer or whatever his first year, he was like her but gave up.
I got the impression that the innies are pretty much children who still need the right upbringing and are essentially being schooled.
All they have are instincts and the subconsciousness of their outies that allows them to function like human beings.
People don't know they are slaves when it is their entire existence, see everyone in reality right now.
This is the worst time in humanity's existence to be alive in all ways and people dedicate the most hours to survival.
You need to lay off the pipe, kiddo. You have no idea how privileged you are to even have indoor plumbing.
congrats, now you can be productive for a full 50 years.
How hellish, clearly it's better to fricking die you stupid moronic moron.
>This is the worst time in humanity's existence to be alive in all ways
when I was a kid a dental X-Ray found that I had a cyst in my jaw around one of my wisdom teeth that had to be surgically removed. If I had lived in a time without modern medicine it would have gone undiscovered until it eventually became infected, then made me septic and killed me. I would have died as a child of "fever" which was very common before modern medicine. How was that better?
Was the cultish stuff about the company founder something that merely existed inside that company, or was it meant to be something society wide?
Within the company
>mom likes the actors in this
>we watch tv shows together sometimes
>try to show her this
>she's totally lost
>can't understand that there are two sets of the same characters
>can't follow that we're being told stories forward and backwards
>gets none of the humor
>none of the symbolism
>none of the references to America's history (Ford, offshoot modern religions in America like Unitarianism, Adventists, etc)
>she's never worked in an office so even the corporate America lambasting went over her head
Feels bad.
Your mom seems like the kind of girl who would let me pee in her.
Is your mom stupid?
It's presented as an office but it's an allegory for schooling, with almost non-existant commentary on pharmacology which otherwise would have been the dominant theme.
>shows where nothing will live up to the first season
The only thing I didn't get was the weird orgy pancake scene. I feel like I got Lynched.
the employees can never have sex they only work. waffle party is just a code word for sex party its not that deep. there's male and female dancers present and presumably you can frick them. company probably steals the cum and makes clones or to keep Kiers alive longer or uses it in the severance devices
>tfw Kier will never tell you he loves you
just fricking kill me already
If the tech were avail would you sever yourself?
Have any of the creators credited The Stanley Parable for inspiration in interviews?
This is literally the worst Hugh budget dross I've ever seen.
Filler, filler, filler.
Every single episode is just a rip off of black mirror - roof, bam, kiff. The twist: sometimes the black mirror shite is set underground or set in a freezing cold town beside a river ...
Amazing 10/10
Wasn't there supposed to be a book or something related to the show?
Has anyone read it?
Nevermind, it's just some tie-in promotional thing, not an actual book.
Starts with some in universe email from 'Daria' to 'Jim', and then contains a copy of the 'Employee Handbook'.