PEL Presents PMP#193: Severance: Mystery Box in Progress

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al here discuss the sci-fi/office dramedy in light of its second season. We might normally wait until the end of the show, but given that season 1 was 2022, and it took three years to get us season 2, who knows it it'll actually finish? And who knows if it will not be massively disappointing at that point? We strike while the show is culturally relevant!

But did even this season measure up to its phenomenal premise and first season? There are so many juicy plot and character elements on this show that we can't possibly fit them all in.

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0:00.0	This is pretty much pop, a culture podcast.
0:10.8	Today, joined in full by our board of directors who will not, however, be contributing
0:14.8	verbally to the podcast.
0:16.8	Today, we're just talking about the TV show Severance, whose first season came out three years ago in 2022, whose second season has just emerged now.
0:25.3	I'm Mark Lentemeyer, carefully partitioned off for my previous life as a corporate drone.
0:29.9	This is Al Baker, a pay limitation of Charlie Kaufman, if there ever was one.
0:34.0	Oh, wow.
0:35.1	I'm Sarah Lynn Bruck, and I most take to heart Luman's 10th core principle.
0:40.8	There ain't no party like a waffle party.
0:43.5	This is Lawrence Ware coming to you from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and I am not in any, nor am I an Audi.
0:50.3	They never show.
0:51.0	I guess actually they do have, they look at people's belly buttons at some point.
0:55.4	I was wondering, that was because they're looking for the pouches.
0:59.0	But I was thinking like, wait, is there cloning going on here?
1:02.9	If they don't have any belly button, does that mean that they're produced?
1:06.3	Because I didn't know what the limits are in this show.
1:09.9	There's so much of mystery that, you know,
1:13.4	oh, oh, also there's aliens or something. You know, who knows? There was clearly no aliens.
1:18.4	Are you saying your experience of watching this show is being presented with more and more
1:22.7	and more questions and fewer and fewer answers? Well, that's why I was thinking, actually,
1:27.2	you know, normally we wait for a show to be done.
1:29.3	For this show, we waited so long.
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