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I'm watching Severance with my wife currently (no spoilers please). The first few episodes are a great critique of the modern workplace and how unnatural its social patterns are. How I don't mix my work friends with my personal friends, how I drop what I'm doing at 5:00 and resume my personal life, then go back in and resume my work where I left off as if not a moment has passed. How I try my best not to talk about my work outside of it because I don't want my 9-to-5 to "define me." How sometimes someone I've been working with for years will suddenly announce his departure, and I'll never see him again, and that's that. How it doesn't really bother me that much when it happens. There are a lot of parallels to my modern corporate desk job that have me reconsidering how healthy my idea of "work life balance" is. It's uncanny. What I thought was healthy compartmentalizing, when exaggerated to the extent it is in the show, suddenly seems completely farcical. Maybe I just need to find another line of work.
But the pacing of the show...holy cliffhangers dude. It's almost unbearable at this point. We're several episodes in, and by now it's a familiar pattern of [45 minutes of nothing happening] then [crazy cliffhanger or reveal at the very end]. Then the next episode starts with [immediate aftermath of cliffhanger] or [business as usual, but now you know the revealed information] and then 45 more minutes of very slow burning buildup just to be hit with another cliffhanger.
Maybe I've revealed myself as a midwit by admitting that this show makes me think or manages to surprise me. But here it is.
It's a fantastic show. Without spoiling anything in particular, you have to be patient with it at least until the last episode of S1. I understand how the pacing would come off as slow at this stage, but all of the setup pays off hugely with one of my favourite season finales put to screen.
S2 is more of a mixed bag in my opinion with some borderline nonsensical plot points towards the second half of the season, but still manages to pull itself together in a satisfying way and is very worth your time.
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