Comment on Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 21 hours agoEarly 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.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 21 hours 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.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 20 hours 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.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 20 hours 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!
Krauerking@lemy.lol 13 hours ago
This is definitely a show about emotional feelings of the situations. It’s not really what I would call an exploration of any topic other than what they think humans would be like on an emotional level being put through a world with the setup it has.
It mostly nails it to through execution but man it’s a show of vibes and triggering your empathetic response far more than it is any good for commentary.