What Corporate Culture Wants from You? | SEVERANCE Season 1 RETROSPECTIVE
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- Identity, Compartmentalization, Manipulation, and Corruption...Severance (Apple TV Series) Season 1 is an incredible commentary on the work place, religion, politics and more.
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I've never been more excited for a season 2
From season 3 got me more hype than this but it's good
I can’t get enough of Severance. It’s definitely my new LOST, which was a huge obsession for me back in the day. I have rewatched Severance a total of five times so far, and I see something new every time. It’s really brilliant and I wish so hard that the Writers strike would end so we could get it back up and running again! Ironic. Especially when the Writers strike hit during the peak of LOST as well, those were the days, just repeating again. I really enjoyed this video, and I hope you make more videos about Severance. It definitely seems more niche as I rarely find anyone who’s ever seen or heard of it, but it’s going to become a classic, especially if more people find out about it!
There's lots of Severance reviews on youtube. Hope you've read the Lexington Letter + the Lumon Employee Handbook 😃
Also ‘Sorry To Bother You’ seems right up your alley 😁
This show is amazing and your video brought stuff to my attention I never thought about before. Like the escape key missing on the keyboard. Also the way the supervisors act seem devilish at first glance. Like in the first episode when they pass the ball around introducing themselves. Why would you do that to someone you know doesn’t know who they are anymore but you made me realize what they are really doing is trying to speed up the process of the innie creating the person they will be while at work so they can actually work and not sit there and have an identity crisis. Though the supervisors sometimes seem to be purposely making the innies more defiant like how he wouldn’t just tell the guy about his kids or when they act mean and controlling instead of at least pretending to be understanding and like the situation is “out of their control” kind of like how mark acts because the situation truly is out of his control lol.
I love how they had their cake and ate it too with how they were able to show what life is like at work but still kept the mystery box of what it is they actually do at work. I hope to see them play around a little more with the innie and outie structure. Like have a super sweet man/woman innie be a serial killer outie or a super mean innie be the nicest person ever outie like how people sometimes tend to hold in their feelings.
If you liked this show you should watch “From” imo they are the best two shows out right now.
This is how my old company was to a tee! It's crazy to me. It's a beautiful modern building with couches and a cafeteria downstairs and they have various parties and perks, but they also demand a lot from you for below average industry pay. They have signs all over with company slogans and even mascot (it's an animal) with pictures everywhere and someone even dresses up as it sometimes.... They have mastered corporate speak to sound like they value you but I can tell in the interactions I've had with different managers they all could not care less about us. It's a really eerie feeling.
Lumon is just covered in technical debt - that explains old devices in office and never changed procedures. That also corresponds with the severed people not knowing what is outside. When you give fifty years old tech to modern people they will start to mutiny saying that they have better computer at home. Those people inside will not do that. And also corporate thinking about upgardes: why change something if it is not broken?
Severance is so damn good, and I loved your analysis. It's a shame there's been some (alleged) internal difficulties during the production of season 2, because that cliffhanger in the finale was killer. Also wanted to say I've gone through all your Office videos now, keep up the great work!
Means a lot
I really took the talk of discord in the show-running environment with a grain of salt. I think what might delay us more, now, is the writers' strike. However, more power to them.
Thanks for talking about this show! I can't get enough of deep dives, interpretation and theories as to what's really going on at Lumon.
Despite this being a new show, it’s probably my all-time favorite, even above Breaking Bad and others. We’ll see how the next seasons go but…yeah. Awesome show!
agree. The last show that left me amazed like Severance was ''the leftovers''
i tried leftovers a long time ago, didnt like it based off the first episode, tried it again recently and it is one of my favorite shows even tho i do find some parts to be slow. @@Revan-eb1wb
All I can say about this show is I’ve watched it twice, may very well watch it 3 times before the second season comes out and I cannot stop thinking about szn2😭😭😭😭
17:40 My old office had this exact speaker system. It sounded just line a fan, but tuned to a frequency that dampened human speech, so it made people feel safer talking to one another in close spaces (i.e. your cubicle mates) and made it hard for the next cubicle over to hear you.
I’m happy that this show is getting a video
Such a great show. I loved everything about. I love the concept and ideas it presents. The cast and characters are great and all stand out. Nice intro video for the show and love the music. Can't wait for a season 2.
Nice video.
I am just now realizing that Ricken's book title alone answers the question we hear at the very start of the show. Who are you? The response, the title of the book, The You You Are. Also the titling of episodes refers to this question and answer but I think the fact Ricken's book is called The You You Are says a lot about his character. These characters are estranged from themselves at work and then this book is introduced to them. We are led to believe the book is not meant to be seen by them at work or outside of work but what if Ms. Cobell brought the book to work intentionally wanting Mark to recreate his identity with this generic slate? There's so many what ifs for this book and for this show at large that I could go on but I'll refrain as I've written to many long comments on my speculations regarding this show. Can't wait for season 2.
It's amazing to me that they would spend so much money and spilled ink on the problem of breaking the silence in open workplaces and ultimately settle on white noise instead of, you know, _music._
Really great analysis. As to the story specifically, I just binge-watched the first season and I remain convinced that they are not employees, but subjects of a mind control experiment. One indicator among many is the way the "company" infantilizes them all the way down to their job descriptions and incentives you'd use to motivate a third-grade classroom, not a team of grown adults doing something important. In fact, the pointless busywork of their "job" is something any company could easily accomplish with AI instead of setting up a Byzantine labyrinth of deception just to keep four human employees in line. They're also obviously in some kind of a cult where the lead figure and his progeny have been mythologized into some type of gods. I don't believe they're putting out a product or service at all. I think they are simply working toward the goal of an entirely compliant, mind-controlled body politic.
Mulverine, just wanted to say that I loved your video! Totally turned me onto the show. Sending love your way from the other side of the state; the vastly superior Kansas City ;)
How dare you…
Are you from St. Louis?
I’m glad you did a video on this wonderful show!
Looking forward to the next Office Video!
You've gotta do a take on the Lexington Letter + the Lumon Employee Handbook 👏 You must!
outstanding produced video amigo!!!
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25:02 completely forgot about that cell phone! That's a telling clue📱on the outie paradigm! Part of the show's design is that time-shifting/decade-shifting set-up, that keeps us guessing. I was looking at the cars trying to identify the era outside, also with Petey's phone… It's a little bit easier to do on the inside at the office… but only kinda
yo this is actually a fire cometary about society did not expect this. Big ups
Great take here. The irony in “you can Google it” tho. 😂
Wooooo love the new content!
As for the design and tech .. I can't shake the feeling that the Arboria Institute from Beyond the Black Rainbow was on the mood board.
This show is so good‼️
Have you seen FX You're the Worst? Would love to see a video essay about it from you
Yes!!!!!!!
I enjoyed all the comments below equally.
Wait some cubicle style American offices really don't have windows like Vegas?
Pretty much every office I've worked in here in England does thankfully, including the public sector office I work in now.
We also generally have open plan offices rather than cubicles.
Ive only seen it in old offices. The new style is between open concept and cubicle so everyone does share a long desk but there are partitions clearly defining one employees space from another. It creates a “bull pen” atmosphere and feels much more collaborative (and yes we can see the windows lol)
Covered Black Mirror yet?
I used to look at ants and think the same thing
You should do a video on office space the movie
yeah it's giving Carl Jung 101
Yeah we had a vp ops force us into the open office concept. It and he didn't last long. It was crap.
Came in expecting to disagree due to the thumbnail and title (corps wanting more) not really being a major theme of the show. But then you immediately launched into an actual main theme (compartmentalization), and yeah that's exactly it. That and broader themes around identity -- and yes a minor theme is also corporate exploitation (ie companies always wanting more).
Yay!