Severance (TV_series) (2022)

I love it that the corporate reward for improved work on Severance is 5 minutes of "defiant jazz" dance party.

Usually I don't like workplace dramas but someone really thought it was good sci-fi. Just finished the 9 episode first season, and wow.

Patricia Arquette is having a moment, just watched High Desert (1996), and she's also in Severance. I notice Ben Stiller is an executive producer, and he was in Flirting With Disaster, a movie I particularly enjoyed.

John Turturro and Christopher Walken are amazing. Great acting.

Reading categories on Netflix, I could say this is a slow burn, because it really builds for the last episode.

It's also absurdist. I'm going to have to read up on the art category, but there's an element of absurdism to it, that really highlights for me, the current state of the world.

Supposedly there is a 2nd season planned.

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