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Severance (s1, 2022)

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"They're not ready yet. It's not time."

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baby goat guy: they’re not ready. you can’t take them yet. they’re not ready!!

the audience: ohhh, this is deeply disturbing and upsetting

the innies, born and raised in an office building: we’ve discovered a baby goat department.

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I don't know what I expected.

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Something I love about Severance is seeing how Lumon goes to such extremes in order to separate people, their “employees”, from those they love, from the myriad forms of love itself.

We see separation between spouses (Mark and Ms. Casey), between parent and child (Dylan and his son; Jane’s song railing against Lumon for “stealing her first love” aka her father, Pete), between new lovers (Irving and Burt), and between love for the self (Helly).

Instead, Lumon seeks to replace these natural and loving connections with unyielding fealty to the corporation, by subsuming natural love between people with “love” for Kier and the institution itself. Which is essentially how many mega-corporations operate today, expecting employees to forsake any and all outside connections in order to devote themselves to the work. To love the work more than other people or themselves.

Because if they only love the work, the corporation, then there’s nothing holding them back from giving all of themselves to it. Until people have nothing in their lives but the work and their “love” of it controlling their whole lives.

Which is, of course, why it’s so powerful to see the developing bonds between Mark, Helly, Dylan, and Irving that are starting to supersede any loyalty or “love” to Lumon.

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I know this is probably a typical acting class exercise, but it's still impressive how Adam Scott shifts from one extreme (panic/worry) to another (apathy) in an instant.

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SEVERANCE (2022 - )

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the outlandish mythology between departments,the goya-esque disembowelment art, the brutalist architecture, the longing for connection when theyve been severed from everything that makes them human and then the random man in a suit sat in a white walled room feeding screaming baby goats like insane stuff this show was made for me

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Evidently Lumon’s been blessed with a new wellness director. So I’ll be retiring at the conclusion of this session.

SEVERANCE 1x08 “What’s for Dinner?”

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I’m truly sorry. I… I’m just not ready.

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“Relationships beyond the platonic are frowned upon.” “Is that what we are?” SEVERANCE (2022 - )

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EVIL

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im happy for your gay pirates, truly, but what about the gay hard rock and vintage car enthusaiasts who are trapped in a torturous corporate hellsape unable to feel human connection but desperately yearning for freedom and love WHAT ABOUT THEM