Just finished it, it was pretty kino, what did Cinemaphile think of it?
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Severance thread
Just finished it, it was pretty kino, what did Cinemaphile think of it?
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Kino but i hope for more office shengians next season
WE SERVE KIER, YOU CHILD!
The religious stuff feels a bit forced, maybe. The aesthetic kind of clashes the wrong way with the retro 50s/60s style. I guess it's kind of inspired by Scientology.
religious stuff is kino
Which temper is which in that picture?
jester is obviously frolic. goat is obviously malice. veiled woman is woe, old crone in dread.
close-up. they appear in the waffle party
I hadn't realised it was all of them, thought it was just the goat - need to rewatch
>they bring sausage to my waffle party
Ah shit you're right
Of all of the four tempers demonstrated in this post, I think my favorite is woe.
>The aesthetic kind of clashes the wrong way with the retro 50s/60s style
I strongly disagree, I thought it fit perfectly into the aesthetic of this giant shady megacorp ran by a cult
The religious stuff is like the crux of the alternate universe. Their family obviously has some mormon/scientology style design for global conversion and subjugation of the planet under their apocalyptic cult. The family's ambitions to have their Keir religion adopted via severance all over the world is the central conflict.
heres the daily shill thread
the black guy is hilarious
I want to know how they'll continue season two. They just had an innie going on stage and yelling about how the company tortures innies in front of a crowd of journalists and elites, doesn't seem like it's something they can cover up.
I don't understand why he was so desperate to gain the author guy's favour, they're all equally shallow and moronic.
Are we sure there were legitimate journalists? Seemed like a private function.
Also he didn't want the author's approval, he wanted the community's approval. That's why he was privately trying to denigrate the author and his wife's decision to bring the baby out in public during the reading (lol).
>Are we sure there were legitimate journalists? Seemed like a private function.
Wasn't the whole party suppose to be one big proof that being an innie is fufilling and great? I would assume that they would invite a lot of people who are still on the fence about severance.
>Seemed like a private function
It was. And Helly's speech will likely be suppressed in S2. We might even see outie Helena go into damage control and become an antagonist.
I think PR spin is the likely scenario, we really don't have any evidence that modern society in Severance has any serious investigative journalism or functional government regulations. I assume the fact that Helly is the lynch pin to some sort of major congressional agenda will be the leverage that the gang uses to not be straight up purged and tortured forever, but who knows.
unfortunately I think most of them will be fired and banned from the office, especially Helly now that her photoshoots are done, which means less office kino and more outie/Devon garbage. I hope they find a way to bring them back into the office. Mark certainly won't go back now that he told Devon the truth. Irving was too stupid to write anything down so he might go back. And Dylan might be held prisoner there.
They definitely have to go back underground lol. Its already been established that the company will fake people's deaths to trap them in the severed complex, surely something like that is going to go down.
Helly has to keep being a severed worker for damage control. If they come up with an excuse for her outburst, its going to be contingent on protecting the media narrative that severance is a positive for the people involved.
>Helly has to keep being a severed worker for damage control.
Outie Helena can just pretend to be innie Helly. It's too big a risk for her and with too low to gain. She already got the surgery and got the pictures, really nothing else for her to do as an innie. It was always a publicity stunt.
This, I also don't want them to spend like 4 eps just getting back to the office.
With any luck in S2E1, Harmony follows through on her promise, abducts Irv and Mark, then they're used as leverage to get Helly to comply.
Having outie Helly as an antagonist would also make things very interesting
Outie Helena seems like will do anything to further the Lumon goal. She doesn't need to be threatened by Cobel to do so.
truly awful character
Innie helly I mean - outie will help ensure she stays there but innie will need to be forced to comply
She's just a plot device for Mark to act dysfunctional around. She doesn't really have a purpose anymore so I doubt she will be around much longer.
Mark will go back because now he knows his wife is there.
>I don't understand why he was so desperate to gain the author guy's favour, they're all equally shallow and moronic.
because he's even more shallow and moronic
How did Joseph Gordon Levitt get away with blackface in this day and age?
Being introduced to these over the top characters the way we were in this scene had me thinking that it was all fake. That they were all Lumon people continuing the experiment outside, like Selvig.
Absolute, indiluted kino
I'm praying they don't pull a Westworld and make the second series garbage that diverts from the original premise
Great, even though I thought the excessive amount of cliffhangers at the end of the finale was kind of bullshit. I am hoping next season they get a little more interesting with the number of fronts that characters are running. The records in John Turturro's house seem to imply that a single human being can have multiple severed personalities over the course of a lifetime, if not simultaneously.
I'd also like to see the lumon religion's role in general society elaborated on more. Its clear that some of the kooky tenets they proselytize on the severance floor are public knowledge in general society, but i'd like to know what extent their utopian apocalyptic beliefs are known to the public and where they derive from in the history of the universe.
Overall, great show. Hope they don't take too long with s2
>The records in John Turturro's house seem to imply that a single human being can have multiple severed personalities over the course of a lifetime, if not simultaneously.
I didn't spot that, what do you mean?
The finale really felt like the plan should've started somewhere in that episode, they had too much time and had to pad the tension way out.
I don't think they had to pad things out, but if the show has an actual plan maybe to conclude s1 with the cliffhangers they wanted they had to cut the 10th episode you might expect of in a season and pad the 9th out with some fake ticking clock.
The board would like you to speak first, Cinemaphile
It took me a while to get used to Turturro in this, I couldn't figure out what kind of accent he was trying to do.
>what kind of accent
like an eager thespian accent. similarly weird accent to Cobel's outie (Mrs. Selvig).
>first ep
>"Ah, there's a man who's at peace!"
>new person called HELLy
So Mark is dead then
He's not dead, he goes home everyday.
I saw the first two episodes on a plane ride. It seemed ok
Ok now I’m convinced apple shills are here and are desperate. Good show tho
I'm an industrial designer, I loved the series because it sort of subliminally reinforces the importance of good product and set design. The series wouldn't be nearly as compelling in a generic cubicle farm, or a contemporary silicon valley office, the anachronistic and mid-century designs make it memorable and elevate the feel of the series as a whole, even though they have no direct bearing on the plot.
>I'm an industrial designer
Has anything about the show made you reconsider the ethics of what you do? Just because they chose a retrofuturistic style doesn't negate the fact that the objective of corporate interior design is behavioral modification with the intent of undermining the worker's sense of privacy and agency to organize outside the supervision of their employer.
No, they'll put you in a cage no matter what, it might as well be a good looking cage.
So you've designing the most a e s t h e t i c ~~*open office floor plan*~~ in the business I suppose?
I really hope she never returns
What is it with this show and using people with extremely distinct faces
Her character sucks though. We get it, Mark is awkward and depressed because his wife died, we don't need to see more excruciating dates
With this scene I knew I would watch the whole thing. The music, set and the actress were so sedating.
This thread needs more Helly.
poast bruv
Unfortunately I don’t have anything to post.
Then why did you say it wtf
It was a thinly veiled request.
It was a long and padded black mirror episode, nothing happens that couldn't be explored in 1 or 2 episodes.
Damn apple is desperate for content.
is black mirror good or poz reddit shit?
Black Mirror is hack garbage
I think the alternative history shit that it alludes to could not have been fit with the most black mirrorish elements of the show into only 2 episodes. I'm guessing you didn't watch and r just shitposting or you only watched 3 episodes and dropped it.
I think Irving is the most interesting character so far. How does he know what the elevator hallway thing look like? Do you think he knew about the overtime contingency and set up his house so his innie would find shit out? Why does the innie have an English accent when the outie is obviously a patriot?
My guess is that Irving's implant is breaking down due to his age and 3 years at Lumon (maybe the tech degrades after a couple of years)
Possibly he had lucid moments before, hence the anti-severance fliers, but his innie doesn't remember them or something
What about Burt's seven years?
The elevator in the black hallway probably has something to do with it. I'm guessing that it does something to the innie to reset them, and Irving has been there much longer than two years
>Stanley Parable
The black hallway elevator goes to the research floor. Its for people who don't ever leave.
But Irving clearly has knowledge of it
I'm guessing that its possible people who are having their innies blanked and replaced with new innies also go down there, as it is for 'extended' stays. Alternatively, Irving may have had an unsevered roll on the research floor and he is trying to pass knowledge of it on to his innie self for unstated reasons.
The paperwork in his home clearly indicates that he thinks some lumon workers are being disappeared and given knew identities under assumed names to separate them from their above ground lives. Specifically the multiple people with different names aged 58 that he had circled on the employee roster which he annotated as being presumably 'same person???'
Isn't the overtime contingency a think where they wake your innie up outside of severance hours?
My theory is that Irving's outtie has figured out that sleep deprivation to the point of experiencing micro-sleep during severance allows knowledge of the inner world to be passed to the outer world, and he is trying to gather information that way. It also seems from the documents he has in his house that he is trying to track down people who have been disappeared via aliases.
bruh the door he's painting over and over doesn't have any relevance to anything in the severed office. it looks like he's been painting that door over and over for longer than he's been severed
Its literally where mark's azn wife's innie goes to cease existing. They mention at some point that 'part-timers' like her come from the research floor.
Gave me comfy Stanley Parable vibes. I'll watch season 2.