Apple TV+'s "Severance" (Season 2)

[Blu-ant]

Originally Posted by Talal86

This show has an excellent 'elevator pitch', but the moment to moment are very random, and seems like every direction/decisions the showrunner make are based mainly on aesthetics.

characters motivation/dynamics seems to change from episode to episode (eg Miss Huang)

and when the show is not concerned with 'looking good' they're doing filler side stories that go nowhere

Interesting comments Mr Stiller.
I trust these insights will help you improve the direction of Season 3 for all of us. U rock

I do seriously hope for better direction, S2 did seem unfocussed.

It would be a waste if Huang doesn't return as a bitter baddie at some point. She's in a phase of rapid growth and more experience will shape her 'story' going forward. Like Cobel, she's a confusing combination of empathy for the "non person" innies and spiteful evil.

Nobody knows why the extravagance of the ice-trek ep was necessary for a couple of plot points that could just as easily have happened in the office.

But there are viewers who like the character backstory episodes in S2.
Many think the Gemma backstory is the best ep yet.
I personally enjoy rewatching Cobel's backstory. So bleak. So hopeless. So determined. So Cobel.

Tidbit for the rewatchers.

[Show spoiler]Helena is genuinely worried that she is unable to bring Cobel back in. Check out the face she makes when Cobel smells a trap and runs away. That's disappointment. And worry.

Trap or not. Immense power or not. Helena seems to know Cobel is the actual inventor of Severance, and genuinely does fear what she could do 'outside the tent'. And given Lumon's power and influence, that's a bit of a mystery. You'd think Lumon could disappear Cobel or at least destroy her credibility. But haven't??

And what a disappointment if Cobel just takes it to a competitor. Perhaps the same people Irving is working for, thinking they want to stop severance, when they want to steal it.