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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Severance is a mystery box show like Lost which will have an expiry date long before the last episode as people tend to get frustrated when they invest time into storylines that end up unresolved.
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Shows with drawn out mysteries are not inherently bad. I think Severance dances right on the line of drawing out the questions to keep viewers coming back, and just dicking around to extend airtime.
The problem I have is how the people in the show react to the mysteries they encounter. The way the Lumon people talk is grating and the unexplained timeline of the weird mix of modern and analog tech are things I've just had accept as part of the setting. But the Innies and Outies keep running into these obscenely bizarre situations and never seem to question things the way normal people would. Sure Dylan spouts "What the f***?" a lot but besides that, there's a real lack of truly relatable characters for me because I'm yelling at them to ask what the hell is going on, and they mostly just don't, or it's not shown.
At least give me a little bit more of a curious fish out of water so that there's an anchor between our world and theirs. Then you can choose to reveal the mysteries or not, but at least the fish tried to find out.
I also think a lot of scenes were drawn up specifically to be meme-able. This shouldn't really be how memes are created.