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Severance season 1
Nov. 18th, 2023 11:43 pmI have watched a TV show! This happens about once every 6 months or so...
Severance is one that I've been wanting to watch for a while, knowing nothing except the basic premise, which is that it's a near-future/alt-reality/retro-futurism world in which people at work have their memories severed from their outside memories, so at work, they only remember what happens at work, and switch to their other set of memories as soon as they leave.
It has a slow start, and Orion was pretty close to noping out after the first episode. The style is Prestige TV meets 1970s filmmaking, with long sequences of following characters through their daily lives, lots of up-close shots and extended single-shot scenes and real-life-adjacent trippy weirdness. But once we got into it, we really enjoyed it a lot. Naturally there was a cliffhanger.
This is one of those twisty shows that's more fun unspoiled if you like that sort of thing.
( Spoilers, mostly discussing the development of the premise )
Severance is one that I've been wanting to watch for a while, knowing nothing except the basic premise, which is that it's a near-future/alt-reality/retro-futurism world in which people at work have their memories severed from their outside memories, so at work, they only remember what happens at work, and switch to their other set of memories as soon as they leave.
It has a slow start, and Orion was pretty close to noping out after the first episode. The style is Prestige TV meets 1970s filmmaking, with long sequences of following characters through their daily lives, lots of up-close shots and extended single-shot scenes and real-life-adjacent trippy weirdness. But once we got into it, we really enjoyed it a lot. Naturally there was a cliffhanger.
This is one of those twisty shows that's more fun unspoiled if you like that sort of thing.
( Spoilers, mostly discussing the development of the premise )