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      Very good. People will say that Season 2 isn’t as good, but that’s only because Season 1 is a masterpiece. There was no way to match that, but it’s still great.

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      Personal opinion first season was very, very good.

      Also personal opinion second season was more middling but had some high points, including the finale sort of wrapping up some of the weaker ideas.

      Also, I am very biased because I have lived in the same areas as the creator of the show and there’s endless local references that unless you’ve lived in many of the cities on the coast of Washington you wouldn’t immediately recognize.

      For example the big bad evil oligarch family is named after a local chain of burger places in the creators hometown.

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        Did you create the show and the lore? No? Then how can you say that it’s “losing itself”?

        I’m pretty sure Ben Stiller, and the rest, knew where the show was going to go in Season 2 from the start. Just because it’s going in a different direction than you thought, doesn’t mean it’s “losing itself.”

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          What a bizarre reply…

          Did you create the show and the lore?

          No.

          Then how can you say that it’s “losing itself”?

          I am able to form opinions on the show because I have watched it.

          I’m pretty sure Ben Stiller, and the rest, knew where the show was going to go in Season 2 from the start.

          Oh, yeah no I’m not quoting Ben Stiller good catch, this is my own opinion I formed by watching the show.

          Just because it’s going in a different direction than you thought, doesn’t mean it’s “losing itself.”

          Agreed. It’s losing itself for other reasons.

          Does that help?

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          I get your argument, but look at Westworld. It started amazingly but stepped away from what it was and it definitely lost itself. Surely they had a plan as well.

          That said, I don’t quite agree Severance is losing itself. The finale firmly sets the path forward.

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        Haven’t watched the finale yet, but I agree Season Two has dragged.

        They created a lot of intrigue in S1 and now they have to have a payoff

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        Severance. It‘s a show directed by Ben Stiller, where people get a small capsule put in their brain to completely seperate their work life from their personal life. They are basically two different people and they are showing all the moral and practical conflicts that happen due to the severing.