Good show, very enjoyable.
Not binge watch material, you might fall asleep if you try, and I mention that as a positive. It’s great to see a good show that doesn’t get you all riled up.
You could watch an episode or two after work before bed, and successfully stop watching and actually go to sleep. This is quite unlike other shows, which would add cliffhangers and keep you wanting the rest of the story, keep you up all night.
But I want to bring your attention to another aspect of this show and perhaps many others that I find rather concerning. While this show was popular and a while after as well, I noticed many references to this ‘Severance’ on News programs, podcasts and various other programs. The hosts would bring up the show or refer to it seemingly at random, as though it weren’t an ad that Apple had paid for. This could be manipulation of the public, the viewer, to artificially make the show more popular.
Ayn Rand in her book ‘The Fountainhead’ describes a person ‘Ellsworth M Toohey’ and his gang of influential people who attempt to steer pubic opinion by manipulating that which gets printed in the news papers. In the book they together write false reviews and artificially improve the ratings of bad shows. The reader of column, an ordinary person, not wanting to sound stupid goes along with the reviewers and claims that the bad show is good, great even.
Along with this, you ask your influential friends working in print media or news to add subtle references to your garbage show, so that people will come watch it and artificially raise demand. I guess this is called marketing now. Though you do have to declare when an ad is an ad.
While Severance was a very good show, I did feel as though something similar was tried in this case. So many subtle references to the show every now and then, so that you feeling FOMO would want to watch the show, and maybe get an Apple TV subscription.
Those are all just unproven hypotheses though.
Should you give the show a watch?: Yes. It’s a very good show.