The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design

Wow such a tremendous episode it keeps you alert all the way along. Can't wait till the next one.

Severance is so exciting.

However the characters are so amazing.

Lots of cool stuff in this episode with other departments and my interest in the show just keeps increasing. Still keeping the same quality and I'm excited to see the rest of it unfold.

So, first of all, did anybody really believe that Helly will die? Of course not. So the cliffhanger from the previous episode was just a lame attempt of raising tension.

With 5 out of 9 episodes over, it is fitting to take stock of what has happened so far. And if we talk about the main plot, the answer is pretty much nothing. So far, there has been plenty of atmosphere building, plenty of character stories, but as far as the main plot is concerned, where are basically at the same place that we started. We still don't know anything about Lumon, except that it is weird. We don't know what they do, we don't know why some workers are severed, we don't know how much power they hold in the outside world, we don't know what the severed workers do... And the list could go on and on. Early in the season, Petey told Mark that he had information about Lumon and that he will tell Mark, if he wanted to know. Mark took his offer, and what did Petey know? Apparently nothing. What did he tell Mark that is of any real significance? Also nothing. Oh, apparently, Lumon might be up to something. Well, stop the presses. And since we're there, how and why did Petey start to think about reintegration? How did his innie and his outie collaborate, because it seems that they had to, since his innie was making maps, and his outie agreed to reintegration. More of the things that are without answer.

Despite some seemingly big moments in this and the previous episode, there are absolutely no revelations regarding the plot. I just hope that they will not cram everything in the last episode.

This is still an interesting show, but I started watching because I wanted a sci-fi mystery, as this is advertised, not a drama about weird things and depressing life of corporate workers, as this is turning out to be most of the time. I have found myself more and more pausing the episodes to do other things. That never happens when a show really grabs my attention.

As a side note, whoever is leaving spoilers for later episodes within spoilers for a current episode, stop doing that. If you mark something as a spoiler for episode 1, do not write about how that relates to episode 9. Put that stuff in trivia for episode 9. That is how it should be done. I don't know if someone is ignorant or is doing that on purpose to ruin the viewing for other people, but it is extremely annoying.

I hope they handle plot reveals in such a way it stays mysterious and fun. The problem with these series is that sometimes they stack the mystery too much and starts to be unrealistic in the universe it created.

So far though it is such a thrill to follow the small bits we get. I hope this stays!!!

The first time through I found this episode middling, however I found it ridiculously funny on a rewatch. The second time through I was simply watching the show, as opposed to trying to pick the episode apart and attempting to pick up on every detail/mystery.

::In Walken:: "They say you all have pouches...You each have a larval offspring that will jump out and attack if we get too close...the sentiment, you know, somehow holds, people are weird...in this theory, the larva eventually eats and replaces you. Which would solve the mystery" Both C. Walken and J. Turturro ((basically break character)) and start cracking up, it was HILARIOUS. The back and forth between Irving and Burt was humor at its best and absolutely bat sh.. insane. Also, Dylan(Z. Cherry) was excellent, probably his best scene up to this point. In a "binge" watch this episode was great as it sort of takes a break from Marks(A. Scott) and Hellys(B. Lower)characters, who has been so heavily focused on up to this point and also adds some needed levity, plus screaming baby goats.