Comment on Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 16 hours agoWhile 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 16 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 15 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 9 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.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Hm, I’d argue that it’s just as much about hierarchy as it is about emotions. Almost every interpersonal connection has some kind of power differential, and these frequently lead to abuse, exploitation and pain, whereas interpersonal connection on the same level seems to work in the opposite direction.