Not sure if anyone saw the movie Saturday Night, which was about the chaos leading up to the first Saturday Night Live show in 1975. Don't watch SNL now but used to watch the old ones when I was younger as reruns on TV. The reviews were pretty mixed and it seemed like people either loved or hated the movie. Not sure what the people who didn't like it were expecting - maybe recreations of the sketches and more comedy? It's not that tho. It's more of a lighthearted dramedy based around Lorne Michaels that night.
I thought it was really solid and did a great job with pacing, casting and capturing that atmosphere. I haven't seen Birdman but know about it and people compared Saturday Night to it with how it was shot. Constant camera movement following Michaels around as he moves around the set and different floors of 30 Rock dealing with everything - wrangling the cast, coming up with the run of show, putting NBC execs at ease - going on 90 minutes before showtime. A few things were too on the nose and obviously not everything in the movie happened that night. Still recommend it tho.
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Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:47 pm
by Superbone
Yep, I've been planning on watching this. Thanks for the review. Looking forward to it.
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:52 pm
by Wally_West
For all you severance fans out there, apparently tonight’s episode is supposed to be very very very very very goooood.
For all you severance fans out there, apparently tonight’s episode is supposed to be very very very very very goooood.
Cool, I'll be watching as soon as it hits!
It was cool and intense!
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Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 10:05 pm
by AmareIsGod
Just stumbled upon an intriguing parallel: Gwendoline Christie makes her grand entrance in both "Game of Thrones" and "Severance" in Season 2, Episode 3!
"Game of Thrones" S2E3: "What Is Dead May Never Die"
Christie debuts as Brienne of Tarth, showcasing her combat prowess and earning a spot in Renly Baratheon's Kingsguard.
"Severance" S2E3: "Who Is Alive?"
She appears as Lorne, the enigmatic head of Lumon's Mammalians Nurturable Department, adding a new layer of mystery to the series.
Both episodes even have eerily similar titles! Is this a mere coincidence, or is there some cosmic alignment at play? Anyone else find this as fascinating as I do?
For all you severance fans out there, apparently tonight’s episode is supposed to be very very very very very goooood.
Cool, I'll be watching as soon as it hits!
It was cool and intense!
It was a really great episode!
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Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 12:09 am
by Charlie Smithy!
I think I might give Severance a try. I just need to sign up for Apple TV.
But I also need to know this: are bad words, profanities, vulgarities, improprieties, and the general decorum of all the societies juxtaposed with....VIOLENCE!!??
Are all these things the kind of things that I can expect in the severance...package?
I think I might give Severance a try. I just need to sign up for Apple TV.
But I also need to know this: are bad words, profanities, vulgarities, improprieties, and the general decorum of all the societies juxtaposed with....VIOLENCE!!??
Are all these things the kind of things that I can expect in the severance...package?
If you sign up, you need to also watch Ted lasso, and foundation. Great shows.
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Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 8:48 am
by Kryptonic
So I typically wait for most shows to be fully released before I’ll binge them (hence why I hasn’t started the second season of severance) and came across a show on Hulu that I thought was fully released called “Paradise” so we started it up. Well turns out there’s only 4 episodes out…. More coming weekly and thought you peeps would dig it….
So I typically wait for most shows to be fully released before I’ll binge them (hence why I hasn’t started the second season of severance) and came across a show on Hulu that I thought was fully released called “Paradise” so we started it up. Well turns out there’s only 4 episodes out…. More coming weekly and thought you peeps would dig it….
So, you're giving it a thumbs up? Looks interesting. And I'll just say you're missing out on the conversation by not watching the episodes as they hit. It's been a blast reading everybody's comments and interacting online after each episode of Severance. Feels like the old days when everybody only had 3 or 4 channels and watched the same shows as they dropped and talked about them with co-workers and friends.
So I typically wait for most shows to be fully released before I’ll binge them (hence why I hasn’t started the second season of severance) and came across a show on Hulu that I thought was fully released called “Paradise” so we started it up. Well turns out there’s only 4 episodes out…. More coming weekly and thought you peeps would dig it….
So, you're giving it a thumbs up? Looks interesting. And I'll just say you're missing out on the conversation by not watching the episodes as they hit. It's been a blast reading everybody's comments and interacting online after each episode of Severance. Feels like the old days when everybody only had 3 or 4 channels and watched the same shows as they dropped and talked about them with co-workers and friends.
Yea, I’d recommend paradise…. It’s still early on and lots of “wtf” moments.
You guys having these discussions is honestly it’s the reason I’m gonna talk the wife into starting it up. Reminds me of the Lost and GOT days.
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Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 11:57 am
by Mori Chu
I kind of didn't like S2 E4 of Severance. Some of my thoughts:
I didn't like how we "cold opened" on the innies out in the snow. We end last episode with Mark being reintegrated. What happened to that? I'm watching wondering: Is he fully a mix of innie and outie now? He just goes in to work the next day? Do they know he's reintegrated? etc. Turns out that based on the events of E4 I guess we're to assume that he is not yet fully reintegrated; he's still an innie at work, just with a bit of "bleeding through" of outie memories (like Gemma appearing on Helly's body). But I found that disorienting.
Also, in the reality of the show, wtf are they setting up here? Like, imagine outie Irving and Mark and Dylan, they go in to work that day. Mr Milchik tells them, "Hey Irving, go stand in the middle of this gigantic ice lake, I'm going to wake up your innie right there and then your innie gets to go camping for 3 days." wtf? Why would the outies want that or agree to that or consent to it? Also don't they usually stagger their entrances and exits so they don't see each other? Did they drive them all up separately to the snowy wilderness and individually walk them to their various starting points? Just the setup of this seems really ridiculous to me and unlikely.
Also, Irving is just magically able to figure out that Helly is an Eagan? How? I get that he can figure out that she isn't behaving properly and that therefore she is probably really her "outie." But it's a huge leap from this to knowing that she is literally an Eagan. How could he possibly know that? "She's an Eagan!" Why couldn't she just be some worker like Milchik, somebody else in the company? This felt unearned to me.
Also more generally I miss what the show had in Season 1, which is a nice blend of theories / mysteries with kooky workplace stuff and comedy. I liked the scenes on the severed floor a lot, the dynamics with the four MDR workers and others down there, etc. It feels like that's all gone and we'll never back to it. I miss it. The show seems to have gone all in on the mysteries and drama and suspense, which is cool but also it's hard to deliver "holy shit" moments every episode.
I didn't like how we "cold opened" on the innies out in the snow. We end last episode with Mark being reintegrated. What happened to that? I'm watching wondering: Is he fully a mix of innie and outie now? He just goes in to work the next day? Do they know he's reintegrated? etc. Turns out that based on the events of E4 I guess we're to assume that he is not yet fully reintegrated; he's still an innie at work, just with a bit of "bleeding through" of outie memories (like Gemma appearing on Helly's body). But I found that disorienting.
Also, in the reality of the show, wtf are they setting up here? Like, imagine outie Irving and Mark and Dylan, they go in to work that day. Mr Milchik tells them, "Hey Irving, go stand in the middle of this gigantic ice lake, I'm going to wake up your innie right there and then your innie gets to go camping for 3 days." wtf? Why would the outies want that or agree to that or consent to it? Also don't they usually stagger their entrances and exits so they don't see each other? Did they drive them all up separately to the snowy wilderness and individually walk them to their various starting points? Just the setup of this seems really ridiculous to me and unlikely.
Also, Irving is just magically able to figure out that Helly is an Eagan? How? I get that he can figure out that she isn't behaving properly and that therefore she is probably really her "outie." But it's a huge leap from this to knowing that she is literally an Eagan. How could he possibly know that? "She's an Eagan!" Why couldn't she just be some worker like Milchik, somebody else in the company? This felt unearned to me.
Also more generally I miss what the show had in Season 1, which is a nice blend of theories / mysteries with kooky workplace stuff and comedy. I liked the scenes on the severed floor a lot, the dynamics with the four MDR workers and others down there, etc. It feels like that's all gone and we'll never back to it. I miss it. The show seems to have gone all in on the mysteries and drama and suspense, which is cool but also it's hard to deliver "holy shit" moments every episode.
I didn't like how we "cold opened" on the innies out in the snow. We end last episode with Mark being reintegrated. What happened to that? I'm watching wondering: Is he fully a mix of innie and outie now? He just goes in to work the next day? Do they know he's reintegrated? etc. Turns out that based on the events of E4 I guess we're to assume that he is not yet fully reintegrated; he's still an innie at work, just with a bit of "bleeding through" of outie memories (like Gemma appearing on Helly's body). But I found that disorienting.
Also, in the reality of the show, wtf are they setting up here? Like, imagine outie Irving and Mark and Dylan, they go in to work that day. Mr Milchik tells them, "Hey Irving, go stand in the middle of this gigantic ice lake, I'm going to wake up your innie right there and then your innie gets to go camping for 3 days." wtf? Why would the outies want that or agree to that or consent to it? Also don't they usually stagger their entrances and exits so they don't see each other? Did they drive them all up separately to the snowy wilderness and individually walk them to their various starting points? Just the setup of this seems really ridiculous to me and unlikely.
Also, Irving is just magically able to figure out that Helly is an Eagan? How? I get that he can figure out that she isn't behaving properly and that therefore she is probably really her "outie." But it's a huge leap from this to knowing that she is literally an Eagan. How could he possibly know that? "She's an Eagan!" Why couldn't she just be some worker like Milchik, somebody else in the company? This felt unearned to me.
Also more generally I miss what the show had in Season 1, which is a nice blend of theories / mysteries with kooky workplace stuff and comedy. I liked the scenes on the severed floor a lot, the dynamics with the four MDR workers and others down there, etc. It feels like that's all gone and we'll never back to it. I miss it. The show seems to have gone all in on the mysteries and drama and suspense, which is cool but also it's hard to deliver "holy shit" moments every episode.
Regarding Mark's reintegration, we have no idea of the time frame of the ORTBO. It could have been before or after his reintegration.
If you watched closely, in Irving's dream (which is interesting in itself as the innies first opportunities to sleep and have dreams), when he visited the workstations out in the middle of nowhere, his screen's numbers changed to letters that spelled out E A G A N. It also then formed a picture of her face. That's how he put it together.
But yeah, the set up for their starting points brings up questions. Maybe there's some in-between state from outie to innie that they can trigger to put them into position for the start of the ORTBO.
The whole thing is kind of a stand alone episode and I'm sure the innies minus Irving will be back to the office going forward. Speaking of which, it will be interesting to see what Irving's outie is up to. He seems to maybe be some kind of spy or something and could explain some of his innie's reasoning skills for noticing details like "night gardeners".
I didn't like how we "cold opened" on the innies out in the snow. We end last episode with Mark being reintegrated. What happened to that? I'm watching wondering: Is he fully a mix of innie and outie now? He just goes in to work the next day? Do they know he's reintegrated? etc. Turns out that based on the events of E4 I guess we're to assume that he is not yet fully reintegrated; he's still an innie at work, just with a bit of "bleeding through" of outie memories (like Gemma appearing on Helly's body). But I found that disorienting.
Also, in the reality of the show, wtf are they setting up here? Like, imagine outie Irving and Mark and Dylan, they go in to work that day. Mr Milchik tells them, "Hey Irving, go stand in the middle of this gigantic ice lake, I'm going to wake up your innie right there and then your innie gets to go camping for 3 days." wtf? Why would the outies want that or agree to that or consent to it? Also don't they usually stagger their entrances and exits so they don't see each other? Did they drive them all up separately to the snowy wilderness and individually walk them to their various starting points? Just the setup of this seems really ridiculous to me and unlikely.
Also, Irving is just magically able to figure out that Helly is an Eagan? How? I get that he can figure out that she isn't behaving properly and that therefore she is probably really her "outie." But it's a huge leap from this to knowing that she is literally an Eagan. How could he possibly know that? "She's an Eagan!" Why couldn't she just be some worker like Milchik, somebody else in the company? This felt unearned to me.
Also more generally I miss what the show had in Season 1, which is a nice blend of theories / mysteries with kooky workplace stuff and comedy. I liked the scenes on the severed floor a lot, the dynamics with the four MDR workers and others down there, etc. It feels like that's all gone and we'll never back to it. I miss it. The show seems to have gone all in on the mysteries and drama and suspense, which is cool but also it's hard to deliver "holy shit" moments every episode.
I agree with you here. It seemed that Irving was skeptical for awhile about Helly, but I had no idea how he made the leap to "she's an Eagan". I also had the same thought on the people just awakening on the frozen pond. My guess/theory is that there is some type of 3rd state, where they aren't an Outie or an Innie, so neither of them know how they got there. Idk if they could even go back to just doing the MDR role, but we still don't know what they were doing or what exactly it was for.
I didn't like how we "cold opened" on the innies out in the snow. We end last episode with Mark being reintegrated. What happened to that? I'm watching wondering: Is he fully a mix of innie and outie now? He just goes in to work the next day? Do they know he's reintegrated? etc. Turns out that based on the events of E4 I guess we're to assume that he is not yet fully reintegrated; he's still an innie at work, just with a bit of "bleeding through" of outie memories (like Gemma appearing on Helly's body). But I found that disorienting.
Also, in the reality of the show, wtf are they setting up here? Like, imagine outie Irving and Mark and Dylan, they go in to work that day. Mr Milchik tells them, "Hey Irving, go stand in the middle of this gigantic ice lake, I'm going to wake up your innie right there and then your innie gets to go camping for 3 days." wtf? Why would the outies want that or agree to that or consent to it? Also don't they usually stagger their entrances and exits so they don't see each other? Did they drive them all up separately to the snowy wilderness and individually walk them to their various starting points? Just the setup of this seems really ridiculous to me and unlikely.
Also, Irving is just magically able to figure out that Helly is an Eagan? How? I get that he can figure out that she isn't behaving properly and that therefore she is probably really her "outie." But it's a huge leap from this to knowing that she is literally an Eagan. How could he possibly know that? "She's an Eagan!" Why couldn't she just be some worker like Milchik, somebody else in the company? This felt unearned to me.
Also more generally I miss what the show had in Season 1, which is a nice blend of theories / mysteries with kooky workplace stuff and comedy. I liked the scenes on the severed floor a lot, the dynamics with the four MDR workers and others down there, etc. It feels like that's all gone and we'll never back to it. I miss it. The show seems to have gone all in on the mysteries and drama and suspense, which is cool but also it's hard to deliver "holy shit" moments every episode.
Regarding Mark's reintegration, we have no idea of the time frame of the ORTBO. It could have been before or after his reintegration.
If you watched closely, in Irving's dream (which is interesting in itself as the innies first opportunities to sleep and have dreams), when he visited the workstations out in the middle of nowhere, his screen's numbers changed to letters that spelled out E A G A N. It also then formed a picture of her face. That's how he put it together.
But yeah, the set up for their starting points brings up questions. Maybe there's some in-between state from outie to innie that they can trigger to put them into position for the start of the ORTBO.
The whole thing is kind of a stand alone episode and I'm sure the innies minus Irving will be back to the office going forward. Speaking of which, it will be interesting to see what Irving's outie is up to. He seems to maybe be some kind of spy or something and could explain some of his innie's reasoning skills for noticing details like "night gardeners".
This is good. I wrote my response to Mori, before I read yours. Now, I'll have to go back and watch the episode again.
I didn't like how we "cold opened" on the innies out in the snow. We end last episode with Mark being reintegrated. What happened to that? I'm watching wondering: Is he fully a mix of innie and outie now? He just goes in to work the next day? Do they know he's reintegrated? etc. Turns out that based on the events of E4 I guess we're to assume that he is not yet fully reintegrated; he's still an innie at work, just with a bit of "bleeding through" of outie memories (like Gemma appearing on Helly's body). But I found that disorienting.
Also, in the reality of the show, wtf are they setting up here? Like, imagine outie Irving and Mark and Dylan, they go in to work that day. Mr Milchik tells them, "Hey Irving, go stand in the middle of this gigantic ice lake, I'm going to wake up your innie right there and then your innie gets to go camping for 3 days." wtf? Why would the outies want that or agree to that or consent to it? Also don't they usually stagger their entrances and exits so they don't see each other? Did they drive them all up separately to the snowy wilderness and individually walk them to their various starting points? Just the setup of this seems really ridiculous to me and unlikely.
Also, Irving is just magically able to figure out that Helly is an Eagan? How? I get that he can figure out that she isn't behaving properly and that therefore she is probably really her "outie." But it's a huge leap from this to knowing that she is literally an Eagan. How could he possibly know that? "She's an Eagan!" Why couldn't she just be some worker like Milchik, somebody else in the company? This felt unearned to me.
Also more generally I miss what the show had in Season 1, which is a nice blend of theories / mysteries with kooky workplace stuff and comedy. I liked the scenes on the severed floor a lot, the dynamics with the four MDR workers and others down there, etc. It feels like that's all gone and we'll never back to it. I miss it. The show seems to have gone all in on the mysteries and drama and suspense, which is cool but also it's hard to deliver "holy shit" moments every episode.
Regarding Mark's reintegration, we have no idea of the time frame of the ORTBO. It could have been before or after his reintegration.
If you watched closely, in Irving's dream (which is interesting in itself as the innies first opportunities to sleep and have dreams), when he visited the workstations out in the middle of nowhere, his screen's numbers changed to letters that spelled out E A G A N. It also then formed a picture of her face. That's how he put it together.
But yeah, the set up for their starting points brings up questions. Maybe there's some in-between state from outie to innie that they can trigger to put them into position for the start of the ORTBO.
The whole thing is kind of a stand alone episode and I'm sure the innies minus Irving will be back to the office going forward. Speaking of which, it will be interesting to see what Irving's outie is up to. He seems to maybe be some kind of spy or something and could explain some of his innie's reasoning skills for noticing details like "night gardeners".
Yesss, king! I now am back to loving the episode! Bone, 1. Mori, 0.
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Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 2:31 pm
by In2ition
The latest episode of Severance was a little slow, imo. There were some little nuggets in there that were interesting though.
