Just finished the third episode. Early comments were that it was a show about a “woke mind virus” or regular Burgerlander anti-communism, but I’m not so sure now.
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Protagonist had her drunk rant about “why are you so special, you think you’re all so great, knowing everything about everyone all the time, the amalgamation of all human knowledge and understanding SO WHAT” etc etc. Paraphrasing obviously.
I’m starting to think that this whole thing might be a big rant from Gilligan about AI. In the sense that it attempts to amalgamate all human knowledge and experience into one giant blob that we all share from together, but at the cost what makes us all unique as human beings.
I could be wrong - it’s still early in the show, but that’s the vibe I get at this point and it definitely strikes the nerve that Gilligan seems to be feeling at the moment.
They did put a “This show was made by humans” disclaimer at the very beginning, after all.
A sci fi show about a hivemind? Oooh, could be interesaaand its on Apple+. Well fuck. 'nother severance situation.
The Amerikkkan film industry exists to brainwash the entire world to support their empire of death and destruction. They shouldn’t get paid for it.
Is it? The “problem” with severance is that they’re clearly just making it up as they go along, it’s a Lost situation. I don’t really see how the two connect here
i felt like severance wrapped up pretty nicely, i’m sure they’ll add a bunch of nonsense for s3 but as is s1 and s2 make for a great closed ark
show with interesting themes that gets talked about a lot, but nobody actually watches because its on Apple