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mtb443 t1_j6f6c2u wrote

I LOVE Severance. Cannot stand Mr. Robot.

Personally i hate shows that go all-in on the unreliable narrator. Ret-conning events because the narrator lied does not mean you are being clever, it just means i shouldn’t trust anything i see, in that case why tf should i care.

I like using a puzzle analogy. A good mystery gives you puzzle pieces but doesn’t tell you what the picture looks like. You can tell which obvious pieces go together but not exactly what it means, as the story goes on the picture becomes more clear and you get an earned “ah-ha”. A bad mystery gives you pieces and the picture but when you start putting it together it flips the board and says “hah got you! You’re so confused right now!” Then you just sit there staring at a giant mess until they just explain what the puzzle was all along.

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MVPScheer123r8 t1_j6fnx64 wrote

Maybe I'm misremembering here, but I'm pretty sure it only seriously retcons one thing and that one thing is possibly the greatest twist in the history of television. Mainly because it's something we all should have seen coming and was right in front of our noses the entire time, but nobody actually figured it out. That's the mark of an excellent twist.

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OrphanScript t1_j6hbzkm wrote

The season 2 twist? Apparently everybody figured that out over on the subreddit. I wasn't there at the time but it was pretty funny going back and reading. Id have never guessed it myself but it is excruciatingly obvious in hindsight.

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MVPScheer123r8 t1_j6i1n5f wrote

Definitely talking about Proxy Authentication Required. No idea why you thought I was talking about S2 there lmfao

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