Severance on AppleTV is excellent (no spoiler)


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Posted by blindness on March 28, 2024 at 09:16:13

I'm not sure if this was discussed earlier, but we just started watching it, and we're about 3 eps before the end, but I can already tell you, it is awesome at two levels: (a) as a piece of subtle dystopia that focuses on the lives of a small group of people in a closed setting, and (b) probably the best allegory I've seen all my life that captures a worker's alienation from not only their own labor, but also their entire lives, their identities, their sense of self.

The series does a great job of making you feel in your bones, the dehumanization of the fluorescent lit windowless rooms, and sterile, soulless enclosures of corporate spaces.

It's friggin' riveting.

Like I said, I haven't finished the season yet, but what I've seen is worth a full recommendation. I might write up a spoiler version of what I found so fascinating and striking in the series when I've gone through all of season one (season two has not dropped yet).


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