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diff --git a/content/brain-rot/american-scifi/severance/season1.md b/content/brain-rot/american-scifi/severance/season1.md deleted file mode 100644 index eff3817..0000000 --- a/content/brain-rot/american-scifi/severance/season1.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,63 +0,0 @@ -+++ -title = "Severance (Season 1)" -author = ["MichaĆ Sapka"] -date = 2024-04-24T22:26:00+02:00 -categories = ["brainrot"] -draft = false -weight = 3001 -primary_menu = "brain-rot" -abstract = "A short review of SciFi classic" -aliases = ["/brain-rot/tv/severance-season1//"] -rating = 4.0 -[menu] - [menu.brain-rot-ascifi] - identifier = "severance-season-1" - weight = 99999999 -+++ - -Oh how I love SciFi without action scenes! -Sevarance is a story based on a great premise: an all powerful company is able to sever a person into two. -One gets to live outside the company clock; the other only in the office. -Both share the same body, but are completely different and have their memories separated. - -{{< rating 4.0 "severance-s1.jpg" >}} -Cover -{{< /rating >}} - -Apple tried to position itself in a small niche of the wider streaming service pool. -When Netflix and others produce one mediocre show after another, Apple is much slower and (seems to) focus on quality. -It allows itself riskier productions. - -_Severance_ plays very much like an independent movie. -It's minimal in presentation, I would even call it _cold_ as everything serves a goal. -Most of the show happens either in a soulless office building, or in a few semi-empty locations. -Somehow, for the first few episodes I had strong reminiscence of Shane Carruth's works. -Those have close to nothing in common with _Severance_, but the feeling was there. -And I love Curroths's works! - -The plot develops slowly and in an interesting way, everything points towards a great SciFi. -I was heavily invested in the plot, wanting to know what was hidden underneath. - -Unfortunately, it's a typical modern TV series. -Its runtime is expanded thin, we've got romance and unnecessary threads. -Remember when they made three huge movies out of Hobbit? -Yeah, it's the same here. -What would have been an _amazing_ movie is a _good_ TV show. - -It's stretched _almost_ into a self-parody. -They tried to have a mass appeal and with it, they lessen the story significantly. -I think they had material for 2 hours movie, maybe a miniseries. -But for multiple seasons? -I sure hope to be wrong, but it seems that it will the same as it was with _Westworld_. -Great start, but it's all downhill from here. - -The biggest offender here is the last episode which serves only the second season. -Such high-addrenaline scene had no place in _this_ story. -But hey, let's make people remember about that season 2 that we will make someday. - -For me _Severance_ is a perfect example of current TV drama state. -You can clearly see that it was made with passion, it could have been great. -But screw that, let's have it for four years. -Fill her up, please. - -It's very good as a TV show nevertheless. |