Severance (2022)
SATURNINE999 -6 points 3 years ago.

The suspension of disbelief is far too challenging in this attempt at implausible sc-fi noir (?).
Anybody stupid enough to sell 1/2 their brain to any corporation deserves their lot. I dunno if I can keep watching this dud to realize all the intricacies of these BOTTOM LINE STUPID PROTAGONISTS. This is like a means test to the end of who is most like a sheep in a flock of corporate prostitution. The entire premise is flimsy and hastily subtexted. There are plenty who would reign in ell rather than serve in heaven. This depiction is one of the less interesting of the genre. This is like those Missing hbo with Justin (Aniston ex?). Asinine thesis that went nowhere in philosophical dead ends and very soon subsequently cancelled . Even Patricia Arquette can’t save this one.

33madlib 1 points 2 years ago*.

First of all, you’re wrong; People have proven time and time again that they ARE that stupid. Humans are constantly doing things that go directly against their own interests. The other stuff you said… I don’t really see how any of it has to do with whether or not someone would want to watch a FICTIONAL tv show about it. Leave the weird religious shit out of it, this is tv show and it’s not real. You’re allowed to be entertained by things you don’t “agree” with in real life. That’s why it’s fiction.

Second, I imagine you’re referencing Leftovers with that dig… All I can say is, you basically just admitted that you didn’t watch even close to the entirety of that show without saying it. I’d bet just about anything that you watched MAYBE one season and gave up. If that. And now you’re making assumptions about how you think it probably ended, and couldn’t be more wrong.

Leftovers was not cancelled. It doesn’t “go nowhere,” and there are no “dead ends.” In fact, that’s what makes it one of the best shows ever. It is an entire self-contained (and brilliant) story that has a beginning, a middle and an end. It doesn’t shamble on with no point and overstay it’s welcome like Lost (a show the creator of Leftovers also wrote on). The actual “event” that you learn about in probably the only one or two episodes you actually watched, is actually explained in the end and not just left ambiguous or cancelled with no explanation.

But You couldn’t be bothered to watch it so you just assumed. And you were very wrong. Funny how that works.