OK I would like to discuss Severance, Season 2 especially.
Read no further, utee or anybody else who hasn't watched it yet. It's been out now for several months, so if you haven't seen it yet it's your own fault.
I will freely admit that my attention span these days is not what it once was. I enjoy sitting down and passively watching TV, while looking at my iPad or phone or whatever. I do not sit down much anymore and get really intensely into the TV unless I'm super into the content, and even then I only get super intent when it's interesting. Thus, I tend to miss little things in shows and movies that are important. That being said, I often guess the twist long before they reveal it at the end. Rare is the day when I am completely surprised by some twist of plot.
Severance Season 1. I understood that they worked for some company, LUMON, and their work was highly proprietary. They allowed themselves to become severed with their own consciousness so they would only be working on their job when they were at work, and know nothing about their outside life, and their outside person would know nothing about their life or job while they were at work. Thus, you have the "innie" who only knows work, and the "outie" who only knows life outside of work. People who are innies don't know if they are married, single, have kids, where they live, nothing. This part is pretty easy.
Now, please bear with me as I watched the first season awhile back, maybe more than a year ago so some of the details I'm fuzzy on. In the very beginning, one of the "innies" was suddenly dismissed, or quit, or something. I forget the exact details. This person had been trying to figure out how to reveal information that only his innie had, or maybe his outie only had. I don't remember the exact scenario. Somehow he makes contact with one of the innies, Mark, and previously Mark had little interest in finding out about his innie. He seemed to be fairly content at his job, and his outie seemed a little disturbed. We learn that Mark's outie's wife had mysteriously passed away in the first part of S1, which is what drove him to be severed in the first place.
They replace the fired innie with Helly R, who seems really rebellious and does not take well to the situation. She is constantly rebelling and trying to get information about the outside world. We are also introduced to other very mundane people who are also working on the same labrynithesqe floor but who have more regular jobs. Helly and the outie of the person who was fired kind of drive Mark S into also being rebellious.
They only showed the work they do as "macrodata refinement". They identify patterns of letters and put them in folders. As they progress, they are rewarded with little parties and silly stuff.
Helly tries to quit, several times, but is rebuffed by her outie each time. She tries to kill herself, but Mark saves here. We find out that Helly is really an Eagan, her family founded Lumen. In sorts, she is kind of a spy or something.
