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Decoding TV

Ep. 61 - Was The 'Severance' Season 2 Finale a Masterpiece?

Decoding TV

David Chen

Streaming, Hulu, Hbo, Max, Fx, Tv, Tv & Film, Netflix, Television, Recap

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

David and Patrick discuss what’s happening in the world of television, discuss the latest episode of Daredevil: Born Again, and dive into the Severance Season 2 finale.

This season of Severance was probably one of the best seasons of television in recent memory. Did the finale stick the landing? What were some of the plotlines this season that really paid off? What could the show have spent more time on? And was the finale, ultimately, a masterpiece? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.

Homework for next week:

  • Adolescence (Netflix)
  • Bonus Ep: Invincible Season 3 (Prime Video)

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television. I'm David Chen.

0:05.4

Joining me as usual as Patrick Kleppick, Patrick, is today one of the most momentous occasions

0:11.7

in the history of mankind? I mean, that's just Thursdays in general, David. You know,

0:17.9

I mean, who doesn't love a Thursday? It's just Friday's kid brother. I mean,

0:22.2

it's always momentous. Indeed. Well, we are of course alluding to the fact that today on the podcast,

0:28.3

as usual, we're going to be covering a few developments in the world of television, but really what

0:32.5

everyone's here to listen to is our review of the Severance Season 2 finale entitled Cold Harbor.

0:41.4

And last week's episode of the podcast, I expressed some doubts as to whether or not we would get this episode in advance.

0:46.9

We did.

0:49.0

I'm actually surprised they released it in advance, Patrick.

0:51.7

There were many things about the severance finality

0:54.7

that we'll get into this personally validating for my philosophy oh things that i have

1:00.2

predicted i thought about patrick a lot there were so many times like the episode appeared my

1:05.6

interpretation of that dead on shows philosophy about that dead on i was just like

1:10.1

right right right yeah yeah yes because

1:12.6

Patrick Patrick predicted we would get the episode i said we wouldn't there were there have been

1:16.7

things that Patrick has been saying throughout the season that i have not repudiated but certainly

1:21.5

strongly disagreed with strongly disagreed with that that the episode reaffirms. So it's really Patrick Vindication Week.

1:29.7

I'll take it. I'll take it. It doesn't happen very often when you've got two kids. So I will, I'm going to savor it for the moment.

1:36.2

I was very excited to receive the finale early. And that's why we're able to get you the coverage at the time that you're listening to it, I will say,

1:47.8

like, I'm shocked that it was out in the open for critics.

1:53.7

And I will say several critics broke embargo, and that was very upsetting. Like, you're not, if they give you the episode, you're not supposed to talk about the episode

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