Post by Dismal Pillock on Oct 21, 2024 4:58:18 GMT -5
workplace psychological thriller, about a corporation whose employees have agreed to undergo a procedure called severance, where their memories are divided. This means when they're at work, they can't remember anything about their personal lives, and as soon as they leave the office, every memory of their jobs is gone.
Really inventive original idea.
Easy enough workaround to being trapped; just dont go in to work again! Ever! The main dude can feel something is off when he's not at work and the company is really fucked up and it ruined the life of his best workpal so ffs dude, just dont go in there! Find another job! Problem solved.
Guessing now the "work" is all fake and its some huge Truman Show social experiment.
Also they lose their memories but what about emotions? If they're suicidally frantic when they clock off and get in the elevator surely they'll still be suicidally frantic when they get out of the elevator, they'll just have forgotten why they're in such a state?
ep 5 just a mindbend fuck from The Planet Fuck. There better be a tasty reveal to WFT is going on here. I guess in the seppo style there will be a second season and end of season 1 we will get left totally hanging in the wind.
Hope someone on twitter is having a massive fuck around with this narrrative:
Wow, this show just got getting better and better. So good. Ep 8 was some massively inriguing squeaky-bum time.
We all work for Lumon now.
GET TO WORK.
There is an almost daunting amount you could unpack from this if you went deep rabbit hole with the accompanying podcasts for it etc. Especially about the main dudes "dead" wife. They've never showed her as an outie. Is she kept in a Lumin dungeon overnight or something? Or rides an elevator up to a top floor penthouse in the same building so her memory becomes that of an outie? Maybe they were saving those scenes for S2. In which case, that is a hell of a long game to play.
Relieved main dude got to see the photo of her right at the end.
I almost dont want to try to "unravel" too much of it though; just let the deciduous mystique of it wash over me with its cryptic inertia.
Season 2 announced for Jan 17th 2025
