On AppleTV. Anyone watching? Season 2 finale is this Friday. I’ve been binging it over last two weeks. S1 was originally aired back in 2021.
Its strange, its dystopian, its quirky. I really like it. Hoping we get some answers about what is really going with the purpose of the Severed project.
One of the best and certainly the highest concept prestige TV show I’ve ever watched. The conceit that originally drove the show - the distillation of splitting your personality for work has felt less striking as the show has progressed but I still love it - my only fear is that the writers don’t have a grand plan and aren’t going to effectively land the plane. The fact S3 is already approved hasn’t helped.
On the fun side, I know almost every location in the show aside from Bell Labs very well - here’s the gateway to the birthing cabin as the start / finish of a trail ultra!
Everything goes full stop on Friday nights until we watch that weeks episode. Then we watch New Rock Stars on YouTube for his breakdown of the show.
This show is as spectacular as any show I’ve ever watched. The first season was super quirky and fun and the second season has taken a much darker turn. Absolutely mesmerizing. It’s going to be a long wait for season 3.
There is a risk it could all fall apart if they can’t pull it all together but so far it looks like everything they’ve done has had a reason. I’ve seen the show runner comment that everything the introduce has a purpose.
We’re hooked. Very intrigued whether they can stick such a huge episode.
Started off slow but it quickly grew on me. I hate the 1 episode a week. I sometimes wait 2-3 weeks then binge them all at once.
I, my wife, her brother, her sister-in-law, and her father all worked in that building. I live ~3 miles from there, and wandered in while shooting was going on.
I’ve read a couple of pieces about the original architectural ambitions of the place. I’m not sure what iteration of it you and yours worked there for but I found it interesting that it wasn’t very successful as conceived. People used back corridors to get around apparently, and all the designated meeting places went fallow. It’s a stunning backdrop for the show though - to the point that I find it hard to believe they even conceived the show before finding the building.
Here’s some more fun locations:
Daddy Egan’s house:
A 12 year old photo of the third tallest waterfall in the world (my wife is fine)
The cliff they run along sans snow:
Cool stuff! There was only one “iteration” of the Holmdel building once all four buildings were completed a long time ago. All the offices are on the interior, with hallways on the perimeters. One could stand at the windows on the upper floors and look down at the vultures slowly soaring higher. I recall looking out at a car that took the curve near the front pond and ended up in the pond.
Funny story: after Lucent took over the building and subsequently gave over to Ericsson, the building was empty for years. Ericsson management got a phone call at one point asking why their water usage spiked to like a million gallons. Yup: nobody noticed the leak that flooded the basement.
In Severance, they’ve edited the outside views to eliminate the newer housing that surrounds it, and for some reason have edited in some hills in the background that don’t exist.
The iconic transistor water tower at night with its reflection in the front pond:
will need to give this one another chance
i watched about halfway through the first season and had the same suffocating sensation as with old episodes of The Saint, and weirdly, Groundhog Day.
Looks like they get out and about after a while . . .
Eh. Not much. I’ll happily convince you to give it another go but the ratio of show length to white corridoor doesn’t change much.
Some yes, but not really. Most of the content is still in the Basement. I think the suffocating vibe is by design.
I just started S1 a week or so ago. Amazing. I love the dystopian, dark feel punctuated with unexpected humour.
As soon as I saw John Turturro’s character, I had a feeling it was going to be good.
my guess is that they are trying to come up with a product to take pain, trauma etc away so that people don’t need to feel this in their day to day lives.
I also started it and watched a couple episode episodes and stopped.
Could be. But why all the strangeness with the macro data enhancements and what is significant about completing the Cold Harbor file. And what’s with the goat people, etc…
Maybe its just all meaningless work and activities they have people doing, and it doesn’t really mean anything. They just want to keep them busy and occupied for the product trial study time…IDK
At first I thought maybe they were going down a road that this was a simulation or something. But like others, I hope they have the story arc mapped out and can land the plane and tie up the pieces with some sense of explanation of some of it.
I did, and thank you for bringing it to attention. I have Prime and after seeing the post I was able to see the first episode. Then I took advantage for the free week on Apple TV because I was hooked. Apple TV+ - Apple TV Watched the first season. This is science fiction noir. It reminds me of “Lost” with a tincture of “Twin Peaks” and “The Office” with that dark humor. I think some people will be enamored and others not so much. I am in the enamored camp.
New Apple computer
am back in and enjoying it, thanks guys
except patricia arquette, not a fan of her work. everybody else is fantastic, esp Milchick and of course Tarturro
