Comment on Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism

simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, upon reading the post I immediately thought of an article from a long time ago whether some anime was feminist or antifeminist. It was just an average anime that didn’t even engage with the topic.
  The conversation around a piece of art becomes infinitely worse once values are ascribed to it arbitrarily.

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  • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I read your post multible times and found no references to you being pro skub. That means you must be anti skub.

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  • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Found the anti-feminist! /s

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• terraborra@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Office Space on ketamine.

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• Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Early on the show told us it wouldn’t be a deep philosophical exploration. By making that aspect of the show (personified through as the brother in law) be comic relief.

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    While he is comic relief, no arguing that - it doesn’t preclude his role in the series from sparking interesting debates. It’s just a different discussion than the one you’re presumably hoping for.

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    • Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Agreed on both counts. It’s true that I went in hoping for a delve in what it means to be severed, but the show told me early it wasn’t going to be that and I accepted that.

      I didn’t see the show as promising to critique capitalism, but explore cults through the setting of an office. Everything outside of the exploration of cult was incidental.

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      • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think it’s mainly focussing on the emotional part of severance, e.g. immediate interpersonal & especially romantic connections. Some focus on the social & cultural aspects would have been really nice!

        Hopefully we’ll get some of that in the next season. I couldn’t be happier with the first two, so I’d say there’s a good chance they’ll move to these aspects to keep things interesting, especially after the ending of season 2 seems to be focussing on the conflicts between severed & non-severed!

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