Chikhai Bardo

Take a bow Jessica Lee Gagné! Everything about this episode - the plot, the pace, the sets and most importantly, cinematography is 10/10.

I have never seen better 50 minutes of television - and rarely 50 continuous minutes of any motion picture.

It has the dead wife montage. But it blooms in a way that we feel like the honeybee flying around in anticipation.

It opens up the Severance lore more than any other episode (barring S1 finale). But it makes it even more eerie.

We see more of the sterile Lumon but with georgious aesthetics. It is menacing with a friendly facade. Its clinical precision is handled by steely grip. It takes you to a prison of hope - that you volunteered into but cannot escape.

This episode should be (and I hope, will be) studied in art schools for ages.

This episode is nothing but perfection and for Severance standards that is a high bar. I truly believe Severance is one of if not the best show ever made (at least in my opinion) and this episode proves why I love this show. It hit me in the feels, it gave me adrenaline, it made me smile, laugh even, and of course it made me cry. This episode is the core reason why Severance is what it is and why it asks more questions instead of answers them, because when they finally answer them it feels better than if they resolved this story in episode 1. Best episode of the season so far and possibly one of the best episodes of television ever created.

This show just went from amazing to a completely whole new level. I really can't remember the last time I watched an episode of any tv show and felt this intrigued. Each scene seems so well crafted it really seems like every single line of dialogue has had tons of thought and consideration behind it. Also, the way the show stays totally unpredictable is actually incredible. I genuinely watch every scene with no idea where it'll go next. And the more I watch the more I realize how much planning and attention to detail has been put into the whole story. Best episode of the season and maybe the entire series.

Wow, episode 7 of Severance deserves an Emmy!

It's nice to see that they gave their cinematographer, Jessica Gagnea, a chance to direct this episode and ended up delivering the best episode of the season. I was so intrigued the whole episode - the camera work, the transitions and the emotional journey was truly a work of art.

This episode also givesDichen Lachman (Gemma) the spotlight she deserves and she proves how talented she is. She perfectly shifts between her innie, outie and past self, showing her incredible range. It's also wonderful to see more asian actors getting more screen time.

It's kind of insane to think this was originally inspired by the backrooms. Almost every scene leaves you mind blown with the camera work, set design, color grading. Everything is phenomenal. The transitions are so constantly creative you are siting there wondering how did they do that nearly every other scene. As far as story telling goes this is easily the most abstract and non-linear severance has ever been. It's unclear who's memories we are looking at half the time and who's perspective we are watching, and yet it still makes senses. We see more of lumon and what they are doing but there is still pieces missing, everything is there but it isn't quite connecting yet. I think most importantly this episode effectively sells Gemma as a character and it sells Mark and Gemmas relationship as something we should care about. This show continues to push television as a median forward and I'm on the edge of my seat to what comes next.