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Ayo Edebiri and Lionel Boyce Took Part in Film Independent’s Live Reading of Conclave

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I keep rotating season 2 episode 1 in my mind because it's just such a perfect example of disrupting labor organizing, of splitting a united team with a clear goal into factions and pitting those factions against each other so a company can more effectively exploit everyone

The propaganda video is the first most obvious thing, because anyone who has worked in a non-union workplace (but especially food service and retail) is more or less familiar with that video. It features happy, aggressively friendly actors dressed in your work uniform or dress code, telling you about the family spirit that makes your workplace so great (please don't unionize please please baby don't unionize), about how open communication and neat perks and whatever other bullshit they're selling can replace your need for higher wages and better protections on the job.

Now if you end up starting to form a union, the first thing bosses will do is attempt to split the workplace up, to weaken that solidarity. We saw a bit of it in season 1-- only one team member gets to stay for the waffle party. The team can participate in the MDE, but incentives like that are very explicitly a reward to honor one member of the team, not the entire team. Lumon uses these little incentives to drive severed workers to compete, which can end up fostering resentments and driving a wedge between them

And that escalates dramatically in just the first episode of season 2. Mark and Helly's kiss being shared and celebrated in the propaganda film, while Irving's romance (the entire reason he wanted to fight back to begin with) is erased from the narrative entirely. Burt is edited out of the scene in O&D, his existence and death never even acknowledged, which may end up fueling a split between Mark and Helly (or Helena, who knows?) And Irving and Dylan.

Dylan being told about the (definitely sincere if taken at face value) plans for a special unit to allow him to see his family, which he is told to keep secret because his coworkers don't have families and might get jealous. That feels very reminiscent of the boss giving you a tiny raise and warning you not to tell your co-workers because they'll just be jealous of you.

Lumon is leaning into these divide and conquer tactics the same way any other company would when faced with worker solidarity. By giving some people perks and some people punishments, by encouraging secrets and resentments and disunity

I imagine this will only escalate whenever we end up seeing the terrifying "perks" advertised in the propaganda film, like bobbing for pineapples and the funhouse mirror

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In case we don't come back... or, I don't know... in case we do?

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The Beauty of Severance

in honour of the season 2 trailer releasing today - made this edit in appreciation of the beauty of the cinematography in Severance 🫶

when i tell you guys i ended up with an HOUR AND A HALF worth of clips to use for this edit by the time i had gone through every episode i'm being so serious. this show is just so endlessly beautiful i had to just try not to include every single shot lol

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Mark S. + dancing at the music dance experience 🕺

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helly r, micro-data-refinement .

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#real tv is back

Bonus:

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a quick Severance poster in honor of the first episode of S2 coming out. welcome back television

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GET YOUR ASS UP AND WORK. WRITE THAT MARK/HELLY FANFIC NOW!

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every second counts

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EVERY SECOND COUNTS !!

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I am Dr. Imtithal, living in the besieged northern Gaza Strip. For 11 months, we have lost our lives. We have lost everything. I have lost my brother, my home, our money, our source of livelihood, my profession as a dentist, and all our memories. Our lives have become difficult. We cannot obtain the necessities of life, such as water, food, medicine, and shelter. We live a difficult life in a school as a shelter for us after we lost our home. We cannot obtain a clean life and we suffer from the spread of diseases. Every so often we are displaced. We cannot settle in a place because of the intensity of the bombing. I hope you can help me so that I can protect my family, which consists of 35 people, most of whom are children...

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carmy hard at work

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The Bear S2E2: "Pasta"

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requests from twitttterrrrr

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It's crazy how when Ayo was in the supporting category, she was able to get all the award coverage but the minute she's contending for the lead, it's crickets cause she got "too many awards ". I get annoyed that WOC have to be relegated to only being a supporting character and are awarded for only that (even tho they are played brilliantly and are well deserved wins) but when it comes to being a lead ,you have to he the first and then wait for 10 more years cause God forbid 2 black women win lead actress twice in a row or you only get nominated and only that. Overall, I'm annoyed. Ayo didn't win, and it opened the floodgates of me peeping the pattern the Emmys does with WOC actress, specifically Black Women.

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🔥🌼🌸Good luck babe 🌸🌼🔥