Discussion (warning: WITH spoilers) of the Severance tv show

lymond said:
Spoiler All I wanna be is an innie :
Yeah...kinda what a meant by "real-time" with the pacing. Well done indeed. Lotsa tension.

I did not give it much thought at the time but think you are on to something about the child-like folks. Like the black dude who found the baby was acting a bit silly saying " I found the baby" over and over....like seeking attention/recognition for his deed. And the woman sitting next to Mark was loopy. Even Rickon they way he was beating himself up over his reading.

I think the "firing" of Cobel was more a temporary punishment. She seems too connected to Lumon for them to just dispense with her so completely. Her interest in Mark is still an unanswered question for me. Ofc, she could just be inserting herself in the lives of her outties, but she seems to take particular interest in Mark for some reason.

I def think the show is a satire of the workplace/corporate environment

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Cobel/Selvig has been testing to see if the severance is complete all the way through. I don't think her house was
next to Mark's by accident.
Spoiler :

Trying little tricks like "my mother was an atheist" inside Lumon, and "my mother was a Catholic" outside with Mark.

Her apparent lapses of memory about when to put the garbage out.

The scented candle used in the wellness session with Mark and Ms Casey was another test. In this case it was not
only the sight and sound of the two people to each other, but a test of the (almost trite) "primitive" nature of the
olfactory sense.
 
Ferocitus said:
Cobel/Selvig has been testing ...
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Spoiler The Cake is a Lie :
Oh sure...no question she is testing severance stuff with Mark like with the candle thing and Ms. Casey. But it seems to me she has this weird fascination with Mark unless I'm just misreading her. I'm thinking here like almost motherly in a way, but just could be a ploy to ingratiate herself. Like when she was observing one of the sessions with Mark and Ms. Casey, seeing that there was some connections there still, she seemed at one point to be pleased by the revelation. The next minute she's like "send Ms. Casey back to testing! " But yeah, I guess Mark is just her little guinea pig. I did not pick up that religion thing initially.

Cobel also seems a bit nuts..ha

Of course, we need to know what is behind the car accident (Ms. Casey's death/kidnapping) and how Lumon pulled that off next season. And what is going on in Testing.
 
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Another mystery that was not solved.
Spoiler What caused Mark's :

red knuckles.
 
I heard or read somewhere that the writer of the finale cited 24 (2001) as an inspiration in creating the "real-time" pacing. He wanted that "ticking clock" feeling.
 
An ad for iPhone 14 has a little Severance reference thrown in. Hard to know if it means something or they're just winking at us.

 
They're just having fun. S2 is one of my most awaited events along with 1899, The Kingdom Exodus and Mike Flanagan's new Netflix series The Midnight Club.
 

Me, in my head:
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Me, in real life:
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EvaDK said:
Severance’ Season 2 will begin filming on October 03, 2022, in New York City and will also shoot in New Jersey.
The filming will take more than seven months and is currently expected to wrap up on May 12, 2023.

https://moviesr.net/p-sci-fi-thriller-series-severance-season-2-filming-schedule-revealed
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Seven months? Dang. That's like a feature film. So we won't even get season 2 a year from season 1. It seems like that show doesn't have a crap-ton of post production, so maybe we could get it in June or July? That sucks.
 
Comrade Ceasefire said:
Ben Stiller just announced that filming for season 2 will finish in April 2024.
The release will be not too long after that. (Unless a measles epidemic causes the US to shutdown.)
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I want to believe it won't be a disaster. But 2 years later, I'll be surprised if it is not.
 
S2 may not be released in 2024.
www.radiotimes.com

Severance season 2: Release date, plot, trailer, latest news

Waffle parties all round – the critically-acclaimed Apple TV+ series is coming back for more.
www.radiotimes.com

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Stiller has already offered some insight into what to expect from the second instalment back in April 2022, teasing there would be answers (and more questions) in store.


"I think it’s important for fans of the show to know that the unanswered questions do need to be answered at some point. It’s just, I think we feel this responsibility to do it in a way that is both responsible and entertaining," he told Deadline.


"Part of the fun of the show, I’ve found, is that people have so many different theories and ideas and thoughts about it, so there’s a responsibility you have, and one thing I can guarantee you is that [creator] Dan Erickson has thought about this, and thought about it a lot over many years.
He added: "We felt that there’s a balance [to aim for], because if too many questions are answered, then you don’t have a chance to really speculate and live in the world as much".


"So, we’re trying to figure out how to live in that world and figure out that balance, but the answers are there. It’s just, we want to try to mete it out in a way that feels fun and satisfying."
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When you have to say that you have specific answers, but don't present them due to fun, you are very unlikely to have any answers - or have any worth having.
Sadly all signs point towards the delays being due to the producers' heightened self-awareness of how their "answers" will be treated when they come. It's not even an assumption at this point, Stiller in so many words said that when the answers will come, the fun will be diminished. That's what happens when the reveal does not promote the story but takes away from it. Since he encourages speculation, I will speculate that not only their answers will be disappointing, but also inconsistent.

@Comrade Ceasefire and the rest of the friends here
 
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Mark aged a bit.
But the show aged like milk.

By the way, wasn't the official announcement that two episodes will be up already? There is only one.
Still, even with 1, even with part of 1, you should be able to tell what S2 is. It's exactly what you'd expect from a show that had no plan nor a meaning past "it's an allegory about life in the office".
 
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I know what you mean, but I hope they find something interesting to do.
 
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