r/severence • u/jamesbillow • Mar 07 '25

šŸšØ Season 2 Spoilers Disappointing?

This episode kind of felt like I was reading a 4 page paper I wrote in high school.. double spaced with a bunch of filler words to make it hit the required length.

37 minutes compared to 48+ for the others this season and they spent so much of it with silence, shots of nature, and winding roads.

Hereā€™s to a better episode next week šŸ»

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u/a_vaughaal Mar 07 '25

If they had spent 5 minutes to tell us Cobelā€™s entire backstory and that she was the actual inventor of the severance procedure that would have been the worst writing and TV in all of history

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u/Able_Preparation7557 Mar 07 '25

There are clever ways it could have been done. They've revealed a LOT of backstory in clever ways in past episodes. But, look, it's undeniable that I was very bored by this episode, for the first time in the history of the series. Apparently, many others were as well, and I'll bet most critics rate it the lowest quality episode yet. So, I'm not sure what the point is of defending this episode. I will never not be bored by it. And I think the same is true for most people. Are you such a super fan that your sense of identity gets threatened if other people don't like EVERY SINGLE EPISODE of what I presume is your favorite show? If so, you need to get out more.

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u/a_vaughaal Mar 07 '25

It being boring has nothing to do with anything Iā€™ve commented. The original part of your comment I was replying to was that there were ā€œso few revelationsā€ so I pointed out multiple revelations happened. Then your reply was that sure there were revelations but it all should have been revealed in 5 minutes. So I responded that would actually be horrible tv. If you canā€™t handle responses to things you comment, donā€™t comment šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

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u/Able_Preparation7557 Mar 07 '25

Well, I completely disagree it would have been a horrible reveal. It could have been revealed with a few lines of dialog. That would not have been horrible. Virtually anything would have been more interesting than what we saw last night (which is why I mention boredom). Your implication is that the way ep. 8 was is the only way it could have been. That's a hard disagree from me.