Severance Season 1 Episode 1 Recap: The Road to Severance Season 2
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🗓️ 15 November 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to We Know Scripted TV where We Know Severance! Severance is an Apple TV+ psychological thriller about employees at Lumon Industries who undergo a procedure that separates their work memories from their personal lives. When one employee, Mark, begins to question the true purpose behind “severance,” he uncovers disturbing secrets about his employer and the nature of identity itself. Every week, hosts Josh Wigler (@roundhoward), Melissa Woodward (@MelissaW28), and Amanda Rabinowitz (@DrAmandaR) will break down an episode of Season 1 of Severance leading up to the Season 2 premiere on January 17th!
Today, hosts Josh, Melissa, and Amanda discuss the premiere of Severance.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the severance podcast here on RHAP. |
| 0:08.5 | We know scripted TV coming your way from the severed floor of the RHAP network. |
| 0:16.5 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Josh EW, joined here as, by my colleagues here in the MDR department |
| 0:24.1 | of Lumen Industries. First, we'll bring her in. Mandy R. Welcome back to the podcast, Dr. Amanda. |
| 0:31.9 | Thank you for having me back, Josh. I'm looking forward to participating in this podcast vocally. I have a feeling that it will |
| 0:40.1 | make me feel as right as rain. Right as rain. Melly W. A.k.a. Dr. Melissa, are you planning on |
| 0:48.3 | contributing to this podcast verbally? I am, but I've been wanting to, you know, throw office equipment across the room all day, so I'm going to try my best to restrain myself. |
| 0:59.3 | You know, I just, I have to be strong. |
| 1:02.3 | It's tough. It's tough out here. |
| 1:04.6 | Well, if you're strong enough, then a handshake will be available for you on request. |
| 1:09.9 | I forget a lot of things about severance every time I go back and check it out. |
| 1:14.5 | One thing I never forget is just how hard, |
| 1:17.9 | helly beans mark with like the speaker box in the middle of the conference room. |
| 1:23.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:24.1 | I mean, he might want to get that checked out. |
| 1:26.8 | I think that he needs to be evaluated for memory difficulties. This was such a delight to revisit this first episode. And I think it's the show just really gets started. Like it really just, I mean, there's so many things that I remember fondly that I was |
| 1:45.6 | like, oh, that's in this episode too. So I can't wait to talk about it. It's like a beautiful show. |
| 1:51.8 | It's visually striking. The acting is like so incredible. The casting is on point. Josh, I'm not |
| 1:59.9 | going to throw a speaker box at your pace for getting this group back together |
| 2:04.1 | to talk about severance. |
| 2:05.7 | Oh, well, that's great. |
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