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Black_Hawk said:
Just completed Season 1, Episode 4 of Severance.

I sometimes am so confused with this show. It all feels so surreal and the story such an oddball of sorts. Sometimes I hate it for being too slow and then towards the end of each episode things suddenly get amped up and I get all excited to see what happens in the next!

Also, for the wrist watch lovers here... did you guys spot this watch that Adam Scott is wearing in the very first episode:
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A lovely Vostok Komandirskie Paratrooper (341307). Very cool!
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I'm s2 e4 hopefully today.. I like binge watching but I can't wait till they stack
 
Ssreek said:
This makes me more excited...Just want to watch a lot of mindf**k movies/shows.
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Dark is absolutely brilliant storytelling. Most shows keep trying to stretch their run and forget that good stories need to end at a right time. A good landing is what makes the journey beautiful. Dark does it very well, imo.
mayank11280 said:
Foundation is at best 6.5 or 7. Season 1 was a load of corny sci-fi tropes thrown together. The essence of Foundation, the nuances of political intrigues and technological colonialism is lost to fight sequences and explosions. It is fun to watch nonetheless.

I think in recent decades, The Expanse has shown what a good scifi should aspire to be. The series was so good, I finished the remaining books 7-9 within a week.
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Foundation was my introduction to sci-fi when I was still learning English. I absolutely love the world, the characters and themes that Asimov built, so I was very hesitant about this show from the beginning. Noped out of it in about 10 minutes. Once in a while I read praises about it and I understand it is subjective but still can't help shaking my head at how they butchered it. Some things should be left alone. They could have just created an original IP and changed some more and given it a different name. Maybe I would have enjoyed the visuals at least if it wasn't trying to be Foundation.
 
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Many TV series are brilliant, but very few manage to end well. This is especially challenging with mystery series. Building suspense and asking intriguing questions at the beginning of the season is easy (ex: Lost - greatest start horrible afterwards) , but wrapping up the series in a satisfying way is а whole different ball game.

Dark achieves this remarkably well despite its convoluted plot, and that's what makes it special.
Another one with great finish would be Breaking Bad.
 
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Sam DP said:
Many TV series are brilliant, but very few manage to end well. This is especially challenging with mystery series. Building suspense and asking intriguing questions at the beginning of the season is easy (ex: Lost - greatest start horrible afterwards) , but wrapping up the series in a satisfying way is а whole different ball game.

Dark achieves this remarkably well despite its convoluted plot, and that's what makes it special.
Another one with great finish would be Breaking Bad.
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I felt moneyheist should have ended after season 1. After netflix takeover it was not the same.
 
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Sam DP said:
Many TV series are brilliant, but very few manage to end well. This is especially challenging with mystery series. Building suspense and asking intriguing questions at the beginning of the season is easy (ex: Lost - greatest start horrible afterwards) , but wrapping up the series in a satisfying way is а whole different ball game.

Dark achieves this remarkably well despite its convoluted plot, and that's what makes it special.
Another one with great finish would be Breaking Bad.
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This is what worries me about Severance. What we have so far is quite exceptional, mysterious and weird in equal amount. Hope they nail the landing and don't stretch it too far. Three seasons should be more than enough to weave a tight narrative. Anything more and it will lose its charm.
 
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buzz88 said:
They could have just created an original IP and changed some more and given it a different name. Maybe I would have enjoyed the visuals at least if it wasn't trying to be Foundation.
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This is also my biggest gripe with the show.

As a standalone IP, it is a good show.

Otherwise, it isn’t the Foundation I remember reading. The deep and substantive philosophical questions are lost and only glamour of high production with action and noises remain.

I particularly dislike how they have stretched out the insignificant plot lines of Gal Dornick and Salvor Hardin and how little importance is given to the role of Hoober Mallow.

Additionally, the show made the idea of mentallics innate and by birth whereas the books emphasised on it being a learnt attribute through training.

This is a trend I have seen with TV shows and movies. They tend to ascribe extraordinary qualities of the protagonist to birth. That heroes are born, not made. Foundation books emphasised on human capacity to expand its mental horizons, show just subverts it completely.
 
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