The After Hours

This episode was a good setup for the season finale. I wish it had been a little more revealing in some parts, but I feel like it showed us enough to build hype for the season finale. However, despite saving the excitement for the end, it still left us with a high level of anticipation and curiosity for next week.

Some people may have been frustrated by the lack of answers to some questions, but all nine episodes have been a build-up to the finale, which I honestly have high expectations for, because I trust Ben Stiller and we'll have 76 extremely revealing minutes ahead of us. I give the episode a score of 8 because on the "Severance" scale of scores, 8 would be the usual high quality that the episodes present, which for me is already excellent, 9 would be only for "Woe's Hollow" and "Chikhai Bardo", two episodes completely out of the curve in this series, which were impactful from beginning to end, and 10 so far only for "The We We Are", which was the best episode of the series so far, perhaps not for a long time.

While I enjoyed last weeks episode I was a bit annoyed of a second standalone episode away from the characters we loved and waited 3 years for. This episode brings back everything that makes this show what it is in full force at its top level. The performance were great, the jokes were funny and -as always- left us with more questions than answers. Next weeks episode being over an hour long definitely gives a lot to look forward to. Also apparently people are saying the board is made up of a bunch of goats now? I'm here for it, this is definitely the best fanbase in the world. Yes I'm rambling but I needed to reach the minimum character requirement.

Season 1 was by far much better. I was hoping this episode was going to be amazing given the last 2 slow ones but its just another slow paced episode with a bunch of filler.

We get good information but once again the story only really starts to progress in the last few minutes to lead up to the season finale. Starting to feel like the walking dead where nothing happens until the episodes cliffhanger. I still do enjoy the show but as time goes on it's leaving more and more to be desired.

No wonder the finale is going to be 70+ minutes long, it needs to be in order for us to get 15 minutes worth of actual story.

I welcome your thumbs down.

If the penultimate episode of the season had this much tension I fear how intense the finale is going to be.

This episode did a great job at both paying things off and setting things up for the big finale similarly to S1's second to last episode.

Lot's of emotions this episode and I have to admit I almost teared up a few times; the way it tackles these themes of innocence and the continual ones of individuality are especially potent this episode.

Some brilliant performances this episode, this show better sweep the Emmys because it deserves to!

Overall fantastic episode, one of the best of the season, hoping next week reaches the heights of the first season's finale.

My God, I feel like everybody who is a part of this community is terrified that this is going to be a new Game of Thrones type ending fumble. I think we're just in disbelief of how good the show really is lol.

This episode was great, even though there were no major reveals. All of the plot lines had such momentum and were absolutely captivating. The cinematography continues to bedazzle. The cinematography team makes it look like every frame should be hung in a museum.

I will say, though, waiting week after week for the definitive answer of what the heck is Cold Harbor. Is getting. On. My. Nerves. They better reveal everything next episode!!!