Severance
Severance
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Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
cloudsrival reviewedJune 14, 2025
Normies LOVE this show and go haywire if you don't think it's as good as they think it is. Boo-hoo. It's an interesting premise, but it meanders too often to retain that interest. 19 episodes where you are only presented with more scenes that give way to more open questions, instead of answering any existing questions. Some plotlines are just dropped.
I worked a corporate job for several years at the third largest IT contractor in the world, and this is a clear and obvious exaggeration of that culture. The people who work there are caricatures of real people I've worked with, but the show depicts employees as being treated like literal children, which is funny but also frustrating to watch. I've never had a job in 20 years of corporate IT where anyone behaved like this. I hate corporations, and the "they pay us so we need to keep the job" part is real, but this is the corporate lens viewed through people who've never held a corporate job.
My biggest problem is how slowly it's paced out. The writers give almost zero information, then tease the viewer about revealing information before ultimately not revealing anything. It's not an intellectual thing. They simply offer NO information for you to decipher. Clever shows leave clues that allow intellectuals to figure out the plot in advance; this show doesn't even give red herrings.
There are good plot twists, but no exposition for an overarching story. You will have watched 2 seasons without really knowing what Lumon is up to. The point is to keep people guessing to extend the show's content, not to have the viewer experience the story.