Severance was one of the most beautiful series I watched of late. Not just intriguing, but beautiful, artistically beautiful. Very happy to hear it's been renewed for a second season.
Touched on this sense of discomfort and alienation with work I have, from the kafkaesque nature and disconnect between the work they do and the result, to feeling like a different person entirely and putting on a mask to conform.
In a way, it made me want to change this about myself and let me be more me, despite all signs in my life until then pointing to that being a bad idea.
Props to the writers for making this not only an interesting and dramatic story, but also a bit subversive to corporate work environments.
This show being an Apple TV show is kind of spicy. Dissociating people mind from job and personal life is laterally something I wouldn’t be surprised Apple would do (if it was possible ofc).
I worry about the long gap between season 1 and season 2. A lot of shows have really suffered with such long gaps, especially ones that are as serialized as this one is.
First season was like April '22. Second season production is interrupted by the strike, and I don’t think that’s going to be resolved soon. I’m pretty sure it will be at least two years before we see season 2, and very likely even longer than that. Even if the people involved read my post right now, decided to end the strike right now, just because I said I was worried about this show, started up production again this very afternoon, it’d still be a stretch to see season 2 airing by April of next year. September '24 is more realistic and even that depends on the strike not going that much longer. If it goes to '25, I think it will kill Severance’s momentum.
I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed severance. It was just so fresh and creative. I especially enjoyed the worker solidarity themes throughout.
This show is probably by far my favorite thing on Apple TV. I figured I’d give it a chance and ended up watching all of it. I literally couldn’t stop other than needing to sleep because I had work the next day
Silo was satisfying the itch for a while but now that that’s done it’s back to pain waiting until possibly 2025 even for severance S2
I watched Severance by mistake, thinking I was watching Succession, which meant I was totally disoriented for the first few episodes as I waited for Brian Cox to turn up. It was glorious. Can totally recommend.
This show was unexpectedly incredible. We got Apple TV for Ted Lasso and gave this show a chance. I am so glad we did because we ended up binging the entirety of this show before even continuing with Ted Lasso
Apple TV+ has had some great shows within the last year. Severance and Silo are towards the top of my recent “best watches” list. For non-SciFi Platonic and Hijack have also been really good.
The pacing and info reveals is soooooo much better in the books. And if you’re paying attention you can put stuff together before any of the characters do because you’re getting multiple viewpoints.
I literally couldn’t put the books down and finished all three in a week. The author is apparently writing more. But none of them end on cliffhangers. Like, there’s stuff I want to know, but I had a feeling season 1 is going to have a cliffhanger and season 2 may take years.
Agree. The quality reminds me of the first seasons of Black Mirror (which instead has lost quality with time in my opinion) on Netflix. Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out.
@pglpm such an amazing show and community around it. I could easily get lost in the episodes without feeling the need to theorize too much, but also find detailed and thoughtful community ideas on what might be going on. It reminds me of early Westworld seasons but somehow more grounded. I’m not going to sweat about season 2, I’ll take it as it comes and hoping it’s a fun one.
Really brilliant show. I got hooked on it immediately and watched the whole thing inside of two days. I am a bit worried about how they'll follow it up as I got the sense from reading behind the scenes details that season one was meant to be much more of a closed story and that it was the producers that suggested the ending should be a bit more open ended. I'm trying to take it for what it is and not buy into any of the mystery boxes they're setting up for later seasons.
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