what is going on to all my severance fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie
files after many requests i mean dms and people commenting on previous reviews saying elliot what
are you doing why aren't you watching the show this is right up your alley well i'm happy to
announce that i finally sat down and i have caught up to all seven episodes that have premiered on
apple tv plus and i'm going to talk about my thoughts on those seven episodes but also if you
were like me and hadn't seen severance is it worth checking out where i'm gonna let you all know here
in this breakdown review but before we dive into it all make sure you're checking me out on all my
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but more importantly if you have seen severance let's talk about it what is it that you love
the most about the show based on the first seven episodes who's your favorite character
what's your favorite plot what's your favorite episode what are some things that maybe
haven't worked for you so far and of course what you hope to see in the weeks ahead
and then for all those people that are new to severance they haven't gotten a chance
what was it that was holding you back and based on this review will you give it a chance let's talk
about that in the comments below so speaking of giving it a chance listen i know i'm seven
weeks late to the party but i finally arrived and there's many reasons like the number one reason i
wasn't watching it when it was on you know for the last seven weeks as you all know has been part of
this community i watch about four to five shows a week that i break down on top of new movies
coming to theaters with streaming on different streaming services so it's just unfortunately
it just wasn't enough time in the day for me to add this to the schedule but luckily with
the shows like raised by wolves and servant which is on apple tv plus which just ended last friday
i had some time on my hands and i took that time to watch the seven episodes and again the way i
want to handle this review the first few minutes i'm just gonna give you my brief thoughts on the
show this is a non-spoiler thoughts on the show so for those that haven't seen severance what
is it about is it worth my time that's what i'm gonna be addressing in the first half this video
the second half will be a spoiler discussion what have i loved about the show what hasn't worked for
me in the show and of course what i hope to see in the new episode coming this friday so that's
how we're going to handle i'm going to leave time codes in the description so with that being said
non-spoiler thoughts begin now so for those that aren't too familiar with severance
check it out it's worth your time it is on apple tv plus and i have been a huge fan of apple tv
plus since the 2019 when it first started i've covered like heavily most of their shows most
of the movies i'm a big fan it's one of the best streaming platforms out there they don't have the
the same amount of uh you know quantity of netflix but they have just as much quality if
you ask me but neither here nor there the synopsis of severance is as i say here the concept is super
awesome so you have this company by the name of lumen lumen is very private so much so that
if you are an employee for this company they have this severance program and it's essentially where
they put a chip in your brain and when you go down to work you go on an elevator and you hit a
certain point you just know everything about what you do on a day-to-day basis from your nine to
five hours working there that's all you know you have no knowledge of what you do on the outside
if you're married if you have kids if you have a dog you don't know that you're just all about the
company then when the time hits at five o'clock and you go up to a certain point in elevator
you don't know anything you did for the last eight hours you just know that you work for this company
it's public knowledge this is something that people do for a living so it's not like a
super secret thing but what the secret is is okay what are those employees doing for those eight
hours and that's the big mystery to this show so just off the bat the concept alone if it doesn't
sell you i don't know what to say that alone just got me super intrigued but then diving deeper into
what makes this show special to me the writing is absolutely incredible just from that synopsis you
have so many different things you could touch on and the thing that really kind of impact me
just based on the first episode which just hooked me right away why would someone put their self in
that situation meaning that why would someone willingly lose their memories for what they do
for a living and then not want to know what they do for a living when they're not at work that
alone is so interesting to me because we've all been in the position whether it's us individually
uh our partners in life our family and friends we all know those people that come home from work and
all they have to do is talk about work that's all they do whether it's good or bad most of the time
it's bad stuff right like this person you won't believe what they did to me at work or not but
they're always talking about work so the idea that there's a show where you don't come home
and talk about work because you don't know what the hell you do for 11 whether it's curing cancer
or killing people for a living you don't know so that just fascinates me just in itself and the way
the show handles these different characters have our lead character who is mark scow who's played
beautifully by adam scott he's such an interesting character and his reasons why he wants to forget
what he does you know when he's not at work is such a personal connection and you immediately
connect with that character it's a human emotion and why he wants to forget his day-to-day life
and wants to forget what he's gone through for eight hours for five you know days of the week
is such such fascinating aspect and then you meet the other characters right you meet you know the
kelly's and the the dylan's and the irvings and the bert and i'm gonna say it right now
i have there's a national treasure in the show and that goes by the name of john turtero as irving
and my man christopher walken as bird would an interesting plot with those characters that's all
i'll say there but it has intrigue it has mystery it has drama it has human emotions there's so many
mystery boxes there's so many questions being asked about what do these people do at this
company why is it so protective why is this most the most intense nda i ever heard of but again
it's in the quieter moments is when they're in the office when they're trying to discover what they
do it's so fascinating it is such a great show is well paced uh i want to say six out of the seven
episodes have been directed by ben stiller which he has done a phenomenal job directing the show
it looks so beautifully shot the way i'm always a person that appreciates blocking
and cinematography and production everything about the show looks so clean and perfect but the thing
that makes me so scary about perfection is why is it that perfect why are they hiding something it's
just so many different layers and conversations that the show brings to the table regarding just
the mystery box and the character development and the arcs that we've gotten so far and again based
on these seven episodes i am more on the edge of my seat with wanting to know what is it they're
doing and the discoveries that our characters find out after each episode so by that point alone
give it a watch i'm gonna dive deeper into my criticism the spoiler portion but i will say there
is certain elements in the show that definitely keep me intrigued it's mostly the office based
stuff which is just so intriguing such a great fascinating conversation that happens when
they're in the office and the development of these characters when they unravel certain things but
then there is an element when they're not at work and those elements to me aren't as engaging as
the office stuff and i'll just kind of leave it at that but overall again for my non-spoiler portion
part of this review watch the show it is so worth your time it's seven episodes so far they're about
54 58 minutes max about 40 minutes on the shorter end it's such a great binge and you will be hooked
on this show like i was it literally i started on friday and i caught up by saturday i was engaged
i was invested and i love this show so that's my non-spoiler review and i'm gonna leave the
last half of this review just kind of catching up with all my fans all the people fans of this show
as far as the seven episodes full spoilers ahead so again if you've caught up we're all in spoilers
right now so episode one like i had mentioned in my nice boiler review meeting mark and when
you find out why he wants to forget what he goes through when he's not at work for the eight hours
of the day that he lost his wife which we will definitely be talking about episode seven when we
find out who his wife was gemma but just learning that piece of information to me just automatically
made me care for the character like wow like that's so sad to hear that that he wants to forget
the grief and wants to forget the wife that he lost because it's so overwhelming so overbearing
for him that and it just makes you more fascinated like okay what's the other reasons for these other
which i the one thing about the show i mentioned it how like the outside stuff hasn't really like
is it's good it's intriguing especially now with you know uh mark his audi finding out more about
the company and after what happened to pete but i i really want to know like okay what was it that
made dylan want to do this what makes him want to forget the rest of his days does he not love his
son that we met a couple episodes ago same with irving and obviously you know we got the reveal
which i'm gonna break down episode seven when we get towards the end here but bert leaving the
company i i really want to know what was it that made these other people want to join this company
in particularly heli she is so fascinating because when you see her i want to say it was episode two
when she when her audi is you know walking with uh militech and he's talking about you know you're
doing a good thing like the way he's talking her it makes it seem like she is like very integral to
the company like maybe her mom or dad or someone like higher up is you know worth the company so
i'm very intrigued by her and she's just she's so like she doesn't want to be there so much
as her audi it's just so interesting about that character and speaking of interesting that episode
when i thought that they killed the character off that was like extremely like really well written
that episode was fantastic but getting back into it as far as episode 1 again i was immediately
hooked i love the characters i love that concept of again letting yourself like there's literally
essentially two people living in one body there's your audi and there's your inning and i love
how as the season has progressed especially after episode seven the discussion at hand
people at lumen the innies are they're like we are two of the same we i you know i want to take i
want to i don't want to be here i don't work here what does it say about the person outside and just
the conversation like they're two separate people but they're really the same people but they have
two sets of minds like they act different when they're at work they act different when they're
out of work that to me is just so interesting but diving deeper into the minutia of lumen
what is exactly they do you know we found out about the goats in episode four or five and like
baby goats and obviously the mysterious numbers is this something that involves the goats is it
something about the recycling that they're doing like we know that uh you know od we're burning
them works you know they're they're rebuilding hatches they're recreating with like a printer
bottles or what have you so i'm just so fascinated by what are they creating and why do they have to
go to these extreme levels to make sure that people don't know what they do which is so
fascinating the black goo what does that have to do with it uh it's just so many like mysterious
aspects even outside of the work what we learn about our sister meets the young lady at the
birthing camp when we kind of learn that she's married to a senator and she didn't remember who
mark's sister was so you're telling me that they're now they're severancing outside of lumen
so you can like forget certain things outside of work which again is just like so interesting to
me it's like how many other people out there are using this program to make people forget things
that's so fascinating in the conversation too just even more on a intellectual conversation how this
kind of relates to in in our real world you know my body my choice conversation and the different
corporations and the different people that don't like the seventh program that hasn't really again
going back to my negatives that aspect of the show hasn't really been as fleshed out like the the
people that don't believe in severance like the yr you know again donovan and irving and helly like
what do they do when they're not at work that stuff hasn't really been as fleshed out as the
inside the work stuff so i hope that episodes eight and nine i think it's ten episodes they
explore that aspect but at this point the season do we really wanna know what they do outside
of work you know it's very interesting i don't know if there's gonna be a season two based on
the unanswered question so far i would hope we get a season two but going back into okay i'm
just kind of at a rant now cause i'm just so happy to be watching with you all and again i
will be reviewing this if you all want to welcome me into this community i hope to
review the rest of the show and have these deeper conversations but let's talk about episode seven
so after everything happens you know dylan you know he gets his interaction uh outside of work he
finds out he has a son and by the way that episode when they're dancing and all that stuff that
was just like ex machina for me it's like this show just went to another level for me it's so
fun the way they intricate intricate the comedy uh and rickens book and all this stuff again i
love this show but going back to episode seven we see that donovan he snaps you know and they
get the key card obviously we know that the head security guy was killed which by the way how did
they know that he died did they have a transmitter on him that the woman that used to work for lumen
did she mess up did she not get rid of the body does she i don't know i'm still kind of like how
did they find his body neither here nor there they get the key card you know obviously bert's leaving
the company which again i love bert and urban's relationship and i love when you know irving
after all this whole season he's the he goes by the book he doesn't like to break rules but as
the show went on he let's burn his mother to the ground i love that line but go into the big reveal
we see that obviously mark wants to be in this relationship with a doula lady i can't think of
her name right now but he rips up his wife's picture oh my goodness that reveal that slow
burn of when he's taping the picture together and it's revealed to be mrs casey oh my gosh gemma is
his wife who died in a car accident but yet she's here how does that work are they cloning people or
did they bring her back to life does she not die like what what's going on i love it so much again
there's so many things that i can just break down but i don't want to make this a 50 minute review
i'm so excited i'm so excited to find out like i said if you all will welcome me into the community
based on liking this review leaving your thoughts and comments really engaging with this that i
will be back to really kind of break down the eighth episode and give you theories and all
the different stuff but right now i'm so invested i'm so hooked into this show like i said the only
criticism i have is the out of the work stuff isn't as engaging as in the work stuff the slow
i would imagine it's going to be a big reveal like when it comes to obviously we know that
uh harmony is is working with mark's wife and taking care of the child so there's going to be
some big reveal she's going to probably find out about the wife she's being severance and they're
severancing people outside of lumen so that's going to probably be a big moment but right now
it hasn't hit me quite yet but everything in the office is just so fascinating again
the performances the writing i love the camaraderie that they have built in the
office how heli was like such an outsider and you know outsider now she's an insider and how they're
working together trying to solve what's going on the mystery box they have the key card now i'm a
man dylan's probably my favorite character when he did uh this was a miller chick i think his name is
that was so funny and such a great moment for that character kind of you're seeing them break
out of the box and who they really are as people are starting to shine they're starting to come
out right so i just love that progression of all the characters and i'm here for it so again uh i'm
sorry for the disoriented type of comments here i just have so much to talk about with the show to
catch up with you all but i thank every single one of you all for recommending this show for hitting
me up i'm here and if you all want to talk about it on friday let me know again by liking sharing
and commenting on this review really engaging on this video and we can be back talking about this i
want to say this 10 episodes if not i know there's an eighth episode i know there's a ninth episode
so at least for two weeks if you want to have a conversation with me here on this channel let's
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