I really liked that. Can’t wait for season 2.
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Shane in The Shield did first, but yes and yes. Justified is grest and Boyd is wonderful
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Just found out they are making season 3 of Severance. Probably released in summer of ‘27.
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Started watching Man in the High Castle, now on netflix. Pretty good. I will say amazon spends some money on their shows.
Along with the Boys. It is super unfortunate that starlight got so much plastic surgery. I mean it’s almost like they recast the part.
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Not saying it’s one of the best but am enjoying season 2 of Cross on Amazon.
Book series is excellent, show is good.
Lots of great ideas gang. Thanks for keeping it going.
My wife and I have both thoroughly enjoyed Shrinking on Apple. I think it’s 3 seasons and it’s definitely a cute show that will have you chuckling at several characters.
As a part time gamer now that I’m retired I’ve enjoyed the Fallout Series and TLOU as games turned to shows. If you enjoy reading, a fun series I’ve absolutely loved reading is by Matt Dinniman and it is the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I believe the movie rights were purchased recently and if done right could be outstanding. As a vote of support my 2 grandsons who like to travel with us beg for grandma to put the books on tape on while we are traveling and they are constantly cracking up.
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not sure how many star wars nerds are on here, but the Maul series on disney + is pretty good. They’ve upgraded their animation style a bit and it looks great. Backgrounds looking like they’re painted (because they were) is a nice touch.
They sure are making us wait. No idea where the plot goes from where it left off.
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Sweet pea was pretty good
I suspect the Innies want more control over their lives and indeed existence, as evidenced by Mark’s decision to go back for Helly.
Potential plot point: the Innies wrest control of the Severed floors to ensure they can’t be “turned off.” They might be assisted by sympathetic outsiders who believe Innies are more (or as) deserving of consciousness.
Alternative: Integration. The technology advances so that Outies and Innies become “one” within the host. Or are able to simultaneously be conscious within a host (a form of polyphrenicism.)
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Innies should have really profound fears for their lives. It reminds me a lot of the ethical discussions around clones, except this one is even dicier, since an innie can’t exist (yet) at the same time as the outie.
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There is a lot of truth in the show because a lot people absolutely hate their jobs and essentially turn off their brains to get through the day and are basically another person after work.
Crazy how most humans spend most of their lives either sleeping and or working.
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Watching lord of flies the tv series
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I’m enjoying Widow’s Bay on AppleTV. Funny but not goofy, so far, scary enough to feel a bit unsettled but not gorey or nasty,
Well acted, well shot, interesting setting and cast of characters.
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Really enjoying the show so far. I like the horror/comedy aspect.
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I suspect the innies/outies will eventually join as one- natural osmosis as the brain naturally finds ways around the tech in their heads… They will either slip back into depression or learn from there experience and find themselves at a crossroad - to embrace life or not. Or Mark will wake up and it was all a dream, he is already dead or he’s a little kid staring into a snow globe.
Up to season 4 was confirmed when AppleTV bought it out from it’s original production company in February. It’ll end with Season 4 and then there is possibilities for spin-offs, etc (or if Ben Stiller decides there needs to be a 5th season). But through 4 and nothing past is pretty much a lock at this point.
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That’s the beauty of the show for me. It took the average corporate office environment and made it into a Mouse Maze. I been saying that at work for 15 years that were nothing but mice in a maze doing seemingly meaningless mundane task to fill time and being paid very well for doing it…LOL - Never hated the job, always viewed work as a way to get nice things in life. What you do when not working is more important.
This would be the “nice” ending. Conflict averted, psychological unity restored, company secrets exposed.
As such, I struggle to find it “dramatic” enough.
Instead, I think the show takes a “spiritual” turn, for lack of a better word. First, the other thematic thread of the show is essentially “spiritual” or “religious” – we see this in how the Eagans have turned the corporate environment into one that is pseudo-religious. There’s a corporate “bible,” a Perpetuity Wing, animal sacrifice, and so forth. Harmony has set up an altar in her basement, and was trained to sing praise to Kier. There’s the paintings, and their associated titles.
Burt Goodman’s husband Fields says, “The church’s stance is that Innies are, you know, complete individuals, with souls… that can be judged separately from their Outie.”
The character names are another clue. “Harmony Cobel,” for example – Harmony, creating musical unity, and Cobel, which refers to a small fishing boat – these sound like pseudo-Christian references. “Eagan,” on the other hand, means “descended from the fiery one,” a hellish moniker, reaffirmed by “Helly.” The company itself is called “Lumon” which refers to Light, but also Lucifer (light-bringer).
Then there’s Irving. His last name, “Bailiff,” is typically associated with being a court official, but given his innie’s self-sacrifice to expose Helly, and his reverence for the spiritual aspect of his workplace, I wonder if it’s a more obscure reference to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, specifically as a Knight Grand Cross in Honor and Obedience, which makes this another religious clue.
So I think the show will come down to Innies versus Outies, with each of them being forced to decide who lives and who dies. This will be painful to see unfold, yet beautiful when we witness those who sacrifice themselves for the other. This also ties back to the “ego death” of becoming a Severed person in the first place, and perhaps resolves the notion of being “severed” from God as a human condition, for which “works” (represented by corporate life) cannot suffice.
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Been watching Madmen (I know it’s pre-covid) and it’s okay, heard good things about it so gave it a shot… I have 2 episodes left