Not what I was expecting based on title and length. The payoff was nice at the end to set things up, and Arquette is a great actor, but that was boring af for this late in the season, IMO.
well shot & acted but overall it felt kind of underwhelming. this season has had way too many extended stretches with little to no Milchick/Irv/Dylan etc and while I understand that a lot is happening outside it feels like we’ve gotten almost no time with the innies and the MDR world
I don’t mind the twist as a premise, but between the episode title and “Discoveries are made” as the description it was a little underwhelming
I really did like the payoff and can’t wait to see her go off, but to dedicate an entire *short* episode to this backstory in one of the most bland ways imaginable is just weird after last week and not seeing much of MDR lately.
For real though, how long was dude waiting outside while Cobel napped after sucking on her dead mom’s breathing tube?
Devon’s call at the end….How did Cobel know about Reghabi? Did that come up before with Petey in season 1?
Surprised by the reactions. Seems like an episode everyone will love after the series is over. Harmony invented Severance. Factory “internship”, WinterTide Valedictorian, child labor, current ether addicts. Shot perfectly once again. The ether scene with the blue/red innie/outtie lighting was great. And then they out-Eggers Eggers with that candlelit shot between Cobel and Sissy.
I’m nowhere near as big a fan of this show at the rest of this thread. It’s obviously good TV but has never captured me like most. I hate when good TV series have episodes like this. It seems almost all of them fall victim to doing something like this though. This felt kinda like the Fly episode of Breaking Bad. Just artistic shots that could’ve been accomplished in 5 minutes in a very important part of the season.
In my mind Devon calls Cobel, who answers and we cut over to see the visual of “severance by Harmony Cobel” with some wintertide references or whatever and we move along. I think there’s space for Harmony’s backstory cut into the rest of the season.
Not sure how suspicious to be of a link between Devon and Lumon. She was pretty pissed at Ricken for partnering with them himself.
There really weren’t many options for them to stretch out the show any further without doing some of these side world/character building episodes. We will get an episode of cobel helping mark, clarity on irv/burt and then them executing whatever plan they come up with and the season will end on a cliffhanger reveal. I do agree that it makes absolutely no sense for Devon to be calling cobel unless there is something we don’t know about Devon and her involvement with lumon.
If she’s worried about Marks brain falling out of his nose I could see her calling Cobel. Who else is she going to reach out to? Doubt there are many severance experts in her contacts.
Pod was mostly an interview with Patricia. It was interesting but not really show insightful. Two notes. They told Kimmel that they have the ending but they have leeway on how they get there. Someone asked why the cars are all pre-1990 and Stiller tap danced around it like freaking Fred Astaire.
Yall are fucking whack for thinking that episode sucked people are too fucking zoomer brained sometimes
Exactly. It fills in a lot. Corporations building their lore and success on communities them leaving them to rot, stealing the genius ideas of their employees as their own. It explains why Cobel had such a reaction to Helena telling her she overestimated her contributions and underestimated her blessings. Why cobel had such an interest in Mark.
I can appreciate a lot of the technical details and performance of the episode. I think that it was pretty apparent what Lumon is and does at this point. I don’t hate it, but I’d rather have spent 10/60 minutes there, and 50/60 with our friends than 45 on just this.
I wanted more from the episode (though I don’t know what) but I still think it was good, just different.
He was obviously turned into a human from a lumon goat and that’s the big thing they’re hiding from us. Gemma found out and they’re just holding her so she doesn’t talk.
Stiller made a joke, something like “and the final scene is Mark wakes up and it was all a dream, then everyone hates me forever.”
Pretty episode but they didn't need to give me 35 minutes of this to tell me she invented severance. That could be done so much more efficiently. Hate shows that seem to be burning track and have tons of momentum then hit the brakes.