Krystian MajewskiI‘m torn on Severance. It‘s good filmmaking for sure. But also I don‘t really care which girl the protagonist ends up with. The thing that make the show remarkable for me was the philosophical implications of the Sci-fi premise. And that gets more and more diluted by the show‘s esoteric fantasy lore and melodrama.
The worst possible choice by the writers in S02 was to make Mark „the chosen one“. The show was powerful if you considered the horror that what happend to the protagonist would be possibly happening to lots of people all the time. But by making the the protagonist special the scope of the world has suddenly shrunk to just a handful of people. And that‘s just not as interesting anymore.
Honestly, the thing I‘m wondering the most is - has Ben Stiller ever actually worked in an office before? Or is this just what happens when a priviledged Hollywood Millionaire is freewheeling when forced to imagine what office work is like?