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We can tell. Severance completely jumped the shark in the last episode.
Oh what, Lumon has 4 employees dedicated to macro data refinement, the most important project in the company's history, but they have
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160 employees dedicated to marching band, who come in to the severed floor every day to practice their marching band routine with Mr Millchek, so that they're ready to perform all the marching band routines that Lumon needs all the time?You could really tell the last episode was almost entirely cheap fan service filler. I honestly avoided severance and then finally watched it because everyone raved, and it actually convinced me that it knew what it was doing, right up until that last episode when it showed that it was just another directionless mystery box train, laying down tracks in front of it as it goes.
I feel you're completely missing the artistry of the cinematography in pursuit of some realistic/based "grounded" plot. It's a show. It's going to jump some sharks. Crowds enjoy jumping over sharks. I'm sure they had a great idea of the destination they wanted to arrive at, but they're taking the scenic route (because it's a show) instead of the direct path and I honestly wouldn't love it the same had they not.
I feel like you're making excuses for bad writing because you like the show.
I too enjoy it, I've just been burned by this pattern before. It's easy to write mysterybox openings, and it's easy to prolong them by continuing to throw twists out every time theres been a lull, it's hard to conclude them in a satisfying and sensible way.