S1E31 - SEVERED Origins - "The Lexington Letter"
Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast
Allen Stare
4.8 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Well, better late than never, right Refiner?? This week, "Severed: Origins" is finally taking some time to break down the weird little document Red Hour released a month after the premier of the show: "The Lexington Letter". It was presented as a whistleblower letter written by a Severed Employee working at the Topeka, KS location of Lumon Industries. It contained a few clues, but it was REALLY another attempt on the part of the producers to explain the Severance Procedure. They were just sure the viewing public was too dumb to figure it out (TV Execs have traditionally believed they are smarter than the average population...this would be why most of TV is SO dumb.)
This piece was rushed. Several folks who read it early on were quick to comment how poorly written it was compared to the series. It's true, and we're going to get into the logic holes, the HUGE continuity errors and the impossible timeline. There are a few details and reveals...but they are buried amidst a LOT of badly constructed narrative.
If you've been with me this far, you know I LOVE "Severance." Don't be shocked, but I DON'T love the "Lexington Letter." I've tried to reign in the snark, but it's upsetting to see such a poorly conceived and badly written creative piece tied to such a cool show. Verbal slaps about the authors' head and shoulders were unavoidable. -Allen S.
NEEDING THE LEXINGTON LETTER?? Here it is, in two docs...
LEXINGTONLETTER-TheLetter.pdf
LEXINGTONLETTER-MDROrientationHandbook.pdf
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Needing your own copies of the Lexington Letter and Orientation Booklet? I've got you covered with downloadable PDFs of both documents:
LETTER: LEXINGTONLETTER-TheLetter.pdf
HANDBOOK: LEXINGTONLETTER-MDROrientationHandbook.pdf
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Adam Scott. I play Mark S on Severance, which you likely already know since you're listening to Severed, the Ultimate Severance podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | Severed, the Ultimate Severance Podcast. I'm your host, Alan S. It's time for another installment of severed |
| 0:38.5 | origins, but this time is a bit different. This is more of a naval gazing episode because we're |
| 0:44.4 | looking at a piece that's actually a part of the Severance canon. It's not an origins piece per se, |
| 0:50.8 | but it was something designed to lay the groundwork for the series. It's called |
| 0:55.3 | the Lexington Letter, and I probably should have gone over it a long time ago. It was released |
| 1:00.5 | as a free downloadable document from the Apple Books app. If you have an Apple product, |
| 1:05.7 | books came loaded with it. Fire up the Books app and do a search for the Lexington |
| 1:10.8 | letter written by |
| 1:12.2 | anonymous. It's still available and still free. If you're on another mobile platform, you can |
| 1:18.7 | download the books app for free from your devices online store. Also, just in case you can't come up |
| 1:23.9 | with any of that, I've converted the Lexington Letter and the orientation booklet |
| 1:28.1 | into easy to use PDFs. Links to the two separate files are in the podcast show notes. As always, |
| 1:35.1 | refiners, soul crushing spoilers ahead for the Lexington Letter. You really should have already read it |
| 1:40.9 | by now, but if you haven't, get ready, because I'm going to ruin it for you. I mentioned the Lexington Letter the very first thing in episode one of the severed podcast. I compared it to the booklets that used to come with graphic adventure games, like Mist. At the time, I told you to go find it and read it, but that was the extent of my comments on the matter. I guess I did kind of leave you on your own when it came to interpreting the Lexington |
| 2:04.3 | letter. |
| 2:04.7 | My apologies, I would like to thank patron refiners Sandy, who wondered on the Patreon page |
| 2:11.2 | why I'd never broken down the Lexington letter. |
| 2:14.5 | The truth, as I told Sandy, I never gave it a thought. |
| 2:17.4 | Since I like to edit |
| 2:18.8 | audio clips into my commentary, a printed piece didn't jump out at me as a great choice for the |
| 2:23.4 | podcast. But Sandy did have a point. Oh, and if you're wondering, this is the kind of thing we're |
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