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Bro needs to come back. This is definitely the best video I’ve seen on Severance yet

Probably the best first 2 minutes of a TH-cam video I’ve ever seen, insanely captivating and relatable

Beautifully done! It's refreshing to watch a video that critically engages with the themes of the show and thoughtfully analyzes the emotional development of its characters. Many other videos don't go beyond plot summary and detail hunting.

3:15 Pee Wee’s Big Adventure is an excellent movie, sir lol

That intro was sick!

I just found this video and I replayed the beginning a few times before deciding I simply must continue… “to try, and keep trying..” I’m crying. And cheering you on!

I love watching people passionate about cinema give their take and essay on complex movies that i love

such a gem, watched it last week, definitely stuck with me, possibly one of my fav movies of all time and fav scorsese movie

I like this wide screen

only gripe I have with this perfect show is the idea that severance would help Mark. It wouldn't. It doesn't switch off his brain for 8 hours, it's instantaneous for him. It makes time go faster but not his grief because he's not going through it. He is not forgetting her for a second, contrary to what reviewers and characters say.

Overrated

What's the song starting around 8:14? It tickles my brain

Cheering for you, Andrew!

Am I the only one wondering about the questions. They inherently imply that severance is not a 100% success rate and I can't help but wonder what it's like when it goes bad.

i love you too. i binged severance for the first time and watched your severance video and i liked it so i checked out your channel and i was like holy shit i've watched some of your other videos and you've made more videos on things i like so yeah you're pretty cool

There is a scene from the Midnight Gospel, it’s taken from the last recording of a podcast between a mother dying of cancer and her son. He asks her “what do you do about the heartbreak? What do you do?” , and she simply responds “you cry.”

the music is a little loud but great video

Well Mother! is one of the worst movies ever made so, disappointed to see you draw a parallel with this fantastic movie.

I originally thought that Mark's timeline before the events of the show didn't make sense, because I was imagining the reasoning you described: "He could be free from the pain 8 hours a day." But that doesn't make sense. Severed workers are briefed that they will experience work time as an instant jump-cut to the end of the day, he would know that he's losing 50% or more of his time to process and grieve, stretching out his misery as much as possible. No one would choose that on its own. You see him struggle to verbalize this when Rickens' friends start criticizing Lumon, but he can only repeat the corporate lie that it helps separate work and home life. He's not doing it to escape from emotions, he's doing it because he couldn't work while grieving. He was being bankrupted by his grief, and was forced to find a job that he could hold independent of his personal struggles. Lumon put him in a position where he had the "free will" to decide between becoming severed or starving.

How cool to meet you through perspective. Found your channel through your Severance video. I think I'll stay now.

Super well done, ty

Beautiful and piercing reflections on the show. Love you mom!

Paul is a character who is caught in the good guy syndrome, feeling lonely, guilty and ashamed. This is exactly a dream and a nightmare. He is a character who ignores his tendency towards homosexuality. He makes a secret agreement with women to get them and tries to get sexuality by helping them and doing them good. When he doesn't get it, he gets angry and shows passive aggressive attitudes. We also see the dark side of women in the movie. Fragile and always deceived women actually use good boys for their own purposes and at the end of the day, they humiliate and abandon him.

Nice, but Paul Hacket's character is not a yuppie. He's just a computer nerd in some obscure small company who one night got tired of his job and missed the last subway home.

A westworld, lost, office space the office, even legion lol what else do you see as an inspiration?

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you have talent bro keep making videos!

loveeeddd thisss videooooo

2:20 he entered with “Escape at Dannemora” which was excellent! If you haven’t seen it, it was just added to Netflix.

I think the show is filled with deeper clues to the effects of the severance. Irving clearly has dreams from his innie while outside, just as he dreams of black paint while dozing inside. I assume he doesn't get enough sleep on the outside, and is probably haunted by nightmares of entering the break room, which is what he's been painting over and over again. Meanwhile, I'll lay money that Helly R. is secretly depressive on the outside, but is so dissociated from herself in general that she doesn't see it. But I'll bet, once we get to know her better in the next season, that it'll be revealed she's never had a real say in her life-choices, that it's all been decided for her by her family. Inside is the only time she gets to acknowledge, even to herself, that she's trapped in her life. As for Mark, I think he's still grieving after all this time because of his exposure to his wife on the inside. She made it clear that she feels a bond with him, even though neither remember who they were to one another. So whenever he sees her inside, his grief is refreshed, unable to fade. It's even possible this is done deliberately, to keep him in a state of misery. This is, after all, the reason he's there in the first place. can't decide if the show is heading toward the idea that each character's two separate memory streams will eventually be re-integrated, or if the ultimate good is for their innie selves to become the only self left. It seems like reintegrating can kill them, so I'm not sure that will ever be an option. But if all of them become their innie selves permanently, and re-emerge into their lives as this new person, there might be a certain poetry to that.

The end of second season was so disappointing. I'm so irritaded by it.

i love all the music u added into this and u wrote this exactly how i imagine an older wirt would write. also this video supports my personal theory that the brothers got out of the unknown by overcoming major ‘flaws’ in their character

As much as I loved “The Rehearsal” I still think that his true masterpiece is the episode of Nathan For You where he goes on the journey with Bill to find Frances.

Such a nice essay, thanks. Saw this just after it came out and it has remained one of my favourite films ever since. Thinking about it this week with the passing of Terri Garr, who absolutely shines in this film.

loved this

one of the best shows i have ever ever seen. i love the artistic direction and the back rooms style atmosphere. can’t wait for january 17th

I appreciate your comparison to mother! and the feeling of being completely trapped within the world of the film. Also a character note: it's terribly important to note that Paul refers to the famous painting wrongly as The Shriek. Another indication that he does Not belong in this world.

whats the song here

I think outtie Irving is doing that with a purpuse. He is shown to be on a quest to expose lumon and it seems like he is desperatly trying to stay awake all the time so that his innie will fall asleep on the job, probably outtie Irving believes that by doing so he will manage to get some conscious time while in lumon

Thanks for mentioning the score, which is haunting and perfect

Brilliant video essay. 👏 (The intro was just absoulte perfection)

The true Evil of Severance is that it takes 2 years to follow up on the first season of Severance.

Why does it take 2 years to film the second season of a 10 episode season streaming series???

I have been in a weekly film club since the beginning of COVID. Love it for how I now read the reviews and we drill down. This must be the last Scorsese film picked. I don't really like the film but you make a great case. I'll reconsider. Excellent work on your part.

I love u dads❤

6:33 Aeroplanes Over the Sea Reference?? 👀 🥁

This movie was a fever dream

Hidden gem is spot on. The film I often go to when people ask for "your underrated" movie choice. It may be better know perhaps if it was not Scorsese's and wasn't beaten out by Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. But this is worth its own viewing. Bit rock n roll, reminds me of Won Kar Wei talking about making Chungking Express: I needed some fun not making an epic and let my creative juices flow

This is really great work. I love the way you put the essay together, the pacing, the soundtrack, and the insights you offer- finally, the questions you end on and your own personal experience. Severance was one of those uncomfortable nine hours that I couldn't stop watching despite the overall sensation of ennui and instability the show creates. Thanks for putting this together.

Please, I beg you, make more videos