/int/ - International

I couldn't even finish season 1, too heavy on the melodrama

>>8075 It has everything i love. Kafkaesque and claustrophobic climates. The series eerie-sterile aesthetic and themes of identity loss and entrapment mirror Kafkas focus on absurd, inescapable structures. I love everything with closed simplified areas where entire attention is focused on characters. I love this fancy retro-futuristic aesthetic too. Bulky CRT-like computers with glowing green screens and clunky keyboards like 1980s tech. Minimalist, sterile interiors with analog devices like rotary phones, i fkn love it. 20th century absurdism in a refreshed form.

>>8077 Best mindfuck in years. PENIS

>>8077 It's style over substance, yeah. >>8080 She was cute and I was hoping for a romance between her and Mark, I'll give you that.

>>8081 Every dialogue is a masterpiece. Great stuff. I just decided to watch new TV shows because i wasnt doing it for years. I go to cinema pretty much everyday. Movies are fkn shit, worse and worse every year. So i decided to check new 2025 series, and this thing is so far the best stuff i found. Ben Stiller is a main driving force behind this project. He is mostly associated with comedies. But since 'Escape at Dannemora' he seems to gravitate towards dark climates.

>>8084 He seems to be much better director than actor

>>8084 >Every dialogue is a masterpiece. You are vastly exaggerating, calm your tits.

>>8080 >random=deep No, it's still just random.

>>8086 I fkn love it. Just finished watching season 2, cant wait for next one

>>8088 The show is a collection of cheesy facebook quotes?

>>8089 It is most addictive, emotion-playing and mindfucking thing i watched in years. Genuinely shocked it went from Hollywood. Last time i enjoyed Christopher Walken was the gold watch scene from Pulp Fiction. I just like such stuff. It is not for everyone.

>>8090 >emotion-playing and mindfucking It really isn't. It looks like just a typical Kafkaesque waste of time. There's no depth in any of this, but a shallow perception of depth, an illusory fig leaf covering the total and absolute lack of substance. If you've read literally any one story by Kafka, you've read and watched them all.

>>8091 Severance differs from Kafka in style by blending sci-fi and corporate satire with a retro-futuristic aesthetic and modern tech like these horror-tier chips put to brains. There is no such things in orginal Kafka books. The show is full of dark humour too, Kafka doesnt employ it either. Thats not exactly the same.

>>8092 It is like a mix of Camus, Beckett and... Joseph Heller. I would add a Polish writer Witkacy too. Witkacys "Pure Form" theory rejects conventional narrative, mirroring Severances fragmented surreal corporate dystopia. His satirical take on societal decay and existential futility complements Camus existential absurdity, Becketts cyclical despair and Hellers bureaucratic absurdity.

>>8092 >corporate satire Again?

First season was amazing, second season was cringe and pointless and totally out of the tone/absent of the good things of the first season. I work in a tech company and severance totally depicts how I feel. There is even a married woman who heavily hits on me at work.

>>8088 Season 2 was stupid. Cobel as the creator of the severance procedure, ultra cringe. It's like these retards started to take their world serious and lost the sense of the message they wanted to tell.

>>8084 You should watch Red Desert from Antonioni.

>>8098 S2 deepens the surreal, Camus-Kafka-Beckett-Heller-Witkacy absurdism with heightened stakes, weirder visuals and sharper dark humor imo. But also slower pacing. I liked both seasons the same tbh. I watched them one after another, over a weekend.

>>8099 I am trying to find smth worth watching amongst new productions and it becomes increasingly difficult. If i wanted to watch old stuff, lifetime would be not enough. I rewatch old stuff from time to time, sometimes, but i need a mood for it

>>8095 Bureaucracy/corporation mocking is just a layer. The show is primarily about identity fragmentation, free will and human cost of dehumanizing systems. Memory-splitting tech is about deeper meditation on selfhood and autonomy. Its a surreal, darkly humorous allegory for human condition, questioning how we find meaning in a world that seeks to control and erase our core selves. It is not really a corpo-satire imo.

>>8105 I personally think that Severance can be read as an allegory for replacing human workers with AI and planned depopulation. The severance procedure, splitting consciousness, mirrors AI automating tasks rendering workers personal identities obsolete. Lumons control and erasure of "innies" reflect fears of dehumanization and societal culling as technology displaces human purpose, aligning with absurdisms existential dread. This mirrors how AI could automate jobs, reducing workers to mere functions stripping their agency and rendering their personal lives irrelevant. The shows eerie controlled workplace suggests a future where humans are marginalized or "severed" from purpose, potentially leading to societal depopulation as automation deems human labor obsolete. But thats maybe i am just over-invested in depopulation agenda and vax-genocide since 2020. But my interpretation has a huge factual support in the series plot imo.

>>8105 LLM generated post, lmao.

>>8111 Hell no. Thats my independent thoughts. I think you can find services online identifying LLM-generated text with extremely high level of accuracy. You can check yourself that it was not LLM-generated.

>>8112 These services are garbage.

>>8115 My IQ oscilates between 180-200+, depending on test. It is hard to differentiate me from an advanced LLM.

>>8110 "Severance" procedure fragments employees identities and redyces them to task-performing "innies" deprived of personal lives kinda akin to AI replacing human workers with efficient emotionless systems. Lumon secretive data refinement hints at automating cognitive tasks, suggesting human obsolescence. The isolated sterile workplace and lack of clear purpose for employees work evoke a controlled, depopulated society where humans are expendable. Characters struggles to reconnect with their "outie" selves reflect resistance against dehumanization and paralleles fears of AI-driven job loss and societal culling, where only a few control the automated future. Prove me wrong.

>>8122 Petey and Burt face sudden mysterious "retirements" aka deaths, mirroring gene therapy "vaccine" side effects, suggesting covert corporate culling. Dylans rebellion against severed memories reflects resistance to losing humanity to automation. Irvs blind loyalty to Lumon mirrors programmed AI obedience while his suppressed "outie" life suggests human erasure. Caseys abrupt "termination" after emotional awakening resembles sudden "unexplained" deaths tied to post-2021 gene therapy experimental interventions. Depopulated office and characters expendability (fe Petey collapse i screenshot) suggest a world where corporations prioritize automation, eliminating humans deemed unnecessary. Hellys desperation to escape severance reflects resistance to becoming an AI-like drone while her "outie" compliance suggests societal apathy toward dehumanization. Marks discovery of Lumons secrets hints at uncovering a depopulation plot. Dylans aggressive pursuit of truth about his severed life mirrors resistance to AI replacing human purpose. Cobels dual role as corporate enforcer and secretive observer suggests orchestrating a depopulation agenda. Etc etc.

>>8129 Macrodata Refinement could symbolize deskilling of white-collar jobs, a process where skilled labor is broken into repetitive tasks that AI can easily replicate. Lumon is portrayed as powerful entity with mysterious goals leveraging advanced tech to control its workforce. This could be interpreted as an allegory for corporations adopting AI to maximize efficiency and profit at the expense of human workers. The severance procedure, which eliminates the need for workers to have personal lives or emotional investment in their work parallels how AI can perform tasks without the human costs of fatigue, emotions, or work-life balance concerns. The shows underlyining Lumons secretive motives and unknown purpose of the workers tasks could reflect fears about AIs opaque decision-making processes (fe "black box" algorithms) and how corporations might use AI to replace human workers without transparency.

>>8136 Severance was sometimes discussed on forums as an allegory for marxist theories of alienation where workers are disconnected from the process, product, others and also their own humanity. This framework can extend to AI-driven depopulation of white-collar jobs as AI often automates tasks that require cognitive skills and it reduces workers to interchangeable parts or eliminates their roles entirely. The shows depiction of workers as cogs in a machine who are unaware of their labors purpose, mirrors predictions that AI could displace up to 95% of entry-level white-collar jobs by automating non-routine cognitive task as early as first half of next decade. Second season which explores the consequences of the innies gaining awareness could symbolize workers growing realization of AIs threat not only to their jobs, but also to their lives.

>>8138 MDR teams work on the "cold harbor" file involves coding "souls" for experimental purposes and it suggests a technological agenda akin to AIs potential to manipulate human processes like decision-making or consciousness.

>>8140 Season 2 revelation that severance serves elite interests (fe offloading childbirth) underscores how AI could benefit the wealthy while displacing workers, reinforcing the depopulation. Damona Birthing Retreat uses severance to offload childbirth pain onto innies as seen with Gabby Arteta who uses her innie to avoid the experience while her outie reaps the benefits.