Still think Severance is overrated after forcing myself through season 1

Everybody raves about it but I found the pacing dragged and the cliffhanger felt cheap. Anyone else think the whole office mystery got more pretentious than intriguing?

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tessap972d ago

I had a buddy who LOVES weird slow-burn shows, and even he gave up on Severance after 6 episodes. He said it felt like being stuck in a waiting room where nothing happens but the wallpaper keeps changing. He literally fell asleep during the scene where they're just staring at the computer screens for like 10 minutes straight. When I told him the finale has a big reveal, he just shrugged and said "too little too late." That pretty much confirmed for me I shouldn't even bother starting it.

the_riley2d agoMost Upvoted

Read a review that said Severance is less of a slow burn and more of a slow suffocation. Your buddy's situation sounds exactly like that article described. Not everything needs to be a homework assignment to get to the payoff.

wesley6392d ago

That whole waiting room thing is kind of what modern life feels like in general though isn't it. You spend hours staring at a screen for a job you don't care about, you scroll through endless content that goes nowhere, you wait in line at the DMV for an hour to be told you filled out the wrong form. People say they want slow burn stories to escape from a fast world but then realize the slow burn hits too close to home. It's like the show is literally about our day to day existence so why would we want to watch more of it for entertainment. At some point patience becomes more of a survival skill than a virtue and everyone's running low on it.