The Reel Rejects - SEVERANCE SEASON 1 Episode 4, 5, & 6 REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:15 I could not be more ready. Let's see how much less we understand by how much more we understand. All right, ladies and gentlemen, well, prepper. Thanks for editing down these highlights. As per usual, I'm sure they ended up good to tell them in the future. Otherwise, we will create ridiculous reward systems and abuse to get you to still do a better job. There's finger traps. My edits live on through me.

Starting point is 00:01:52 I am sorry. Yeah, if you guys can subscribe, it would be great. Next chunk would be the finale. be the thought you're part one um yeah so uh normally we have like a lot of questions but this was an impromptu shoot so we did put out a post but not much really came in um you know it's a very opposite experience of what we normally like when uh we get a crap ton of questions especially like last week was a prime example of that so this is probably just going to be our thoughts we'll shout out a couple comments though um right away just to get it out of the way

Starting point is 00:02:26 Chris C. says, just want to say, I'm so glad you guys are finally watching this show. It's been my favorite thing on TV since it premiered. I would love to hear who your favorite characters are now, that you're a little over halfway through the first season. It's cool. Like characters who I thought were interesting, um, who I thought were interesting,

Starting point is 00:02:46 but I wasn't particularly, like last time we talked to was like really obvious. It was like, well, Ellie, Mark. And, um, I said his name the whole time. Milchuk. Makes him a little chick. I can pull right now and Milchick but now everyone's interesting yeah like everyone is

Starting point is 00:03:01 much more interesting it's really clever god damn it gets better and better and better because like I thought the first three were really good they were great but they're what but this is like the hyped show

Starting point is 00:03:16 like you know of the last couple years it is the hype show and I wouldn't fully say that like this one hundred percent lives up to the hype and nor did i want to even look at it in that metrics because i was aware we were only three episodes in uh but now that we are six episodes in i'm like oh man i'm i'm really getting it yeah because it is it has gotten every episode has gotten

Starting point is 00:03:46 so much more interesting yeah and uh and more more not just more interesting in terms of plot but more emotionally engaging and that has to do with your exact question chris like i i i care i irving like i think john tautro's like a great actor i i didn't expect to care about him um to this degree christopher walk and another great actor and inspired to care about him to disagree i didn't know if a lot of these people will kind of keep me at a distance but i'd be like mysteriously intrigued with a few people i'm really invested in um but i would say like because we talk so much about Hellie and Mark and Milchick last time

Starting point is 00:04:24 I would want to give a little bit of this attention to what they're doing with John Totoro and Chris Walken because these are two veteran actors one obviously more famous than the other but they're two you know it's interesting John Toturo's like got more versatility in my opinion I feel like it's kind of an objective

Starting point is 00:04:41 he's objective opinion he's got more versatility and he's more like more apt to disappear into a character sometimes yeah it was like Chris Walken, he's always a bit of like, yeah, I see Chris Walken, even here. I see Chris Walken doing like a shade, even though a very believable version, it's Chris Walken. And I didn't expect, because you said that a comment early on in episode four, you said a comment

Starting point is 00:05:06 about them having a romance. And because I'm, I associate Chris Walken as one of those older school actors who I've like, I bet in real life he's probably like had relations with men at some point. He strikes me as that kind of guy. Seems like he'd be with anybody. But I didn't know. I don't know about any of him and all the decades

Starting point is 00:05:25 he's been performing of any of ever doing like a homosexual role in any capacity. Yeah. And it's pretty cool to just even when they were about to kiss I'm like,

Starting point is 00:05:35 I've never seen him kissing another guy. I'm really interested if they'll go like Chris Walken really have that. John Tissure wouldn't have been surprising at all, but you're like Chris Wachin. They're crazy. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:45 Yeah. I'm not used to it. Yeah. That moment where they're just like foreheads touching, just like being intimate. with each other in the foliage room the flora room is beautiful and yeah like that would be the pair i would highlight at this moment too because there's just something so it's weird the the relationship

Starting point is 00:06:06 on screen as presented is lovely and you know odd in its own way but yeah the fact that you have these two veteran actors who have you know come up along a lot of the similar just you know ebbs and flows of the film industry and all that stuff and you know to see them here and you know put together in such a charming way to see two actors from like a similar cast of the pool of actors cast as in like cast system uh you know it's really lovely and really fascinating just something yeah i would have never expected and i love that i feel like there's almost something purposeful within that it's yeah these two members of an older guard these two character actors who are all also enlivening this really, again, intimate romance. This is so lovely. And, too, you would expect at least from Irv, but the fact that this spark between them is bringing them closer to the O&D department,

Starting point is 00:07:05 is bringing these departments, is helping to bridge these departments together, even if Mark is sort of acknowledging their, at least camaraderie and, you know, suggesting, oh, maybe we should follow it, maybe we should go over there. Like, so much of it really does come and blossom from Irv and, oh, God, Christopher Watkins' character. Bert?

Starting point is 00:07:29 Bert. Irv and Bert. Great classic guy names. And all the stuff with the art and everything between them and just the way that they, yeah, they, I love the affectation, especially that John Totoro puts on, because it is different from a lot of the characterizations I've seen in play. And I very much wonder now, because he is one of the few now, we haven't seen in any form outside of Lumen, what he is like on the other side. I bet he's straight on the other side. It's, it's, yeah, yeah, right?

Starting point is 00:08:05 I do, I would like to think that maybe they do have a relationship. I think that would be a really cool, like, cathartic reveal, honestly. I'd be totally fine with that. I think we have, like, a lot of predictions and stuff, like, you know, there's a lot of thematic stuff that we've been picked. up on and there's some obvious things that like this is one of those shows where the audience where the the the the creators filmmakers behind it obviously like okay we want them to know this we want them to know they're really in control of what they want us to know and what we don't know I'd be curious to see like if there's like a lot of times we make guesses um about these characters

Starting point is 00:08:40 and where we're going but then I come to question like oh we're right about like even 50% of what we're guessing i don't think like the show would be as like a phenomenon as it is yeah the part of this is the mystery right like every question every episode raises a new question mark or several question marks um and it's it's it's it's written so well and what they've done with hellie and mark and their dynamic has been uh probably the one that's brought me a lot of joy too because of uh the the like the way they directed that episode that episode episode with Heli where she you just see it in real time the elevator door shuts and closes it puts you into that POV of oh man that would drive me nuts especially when she goes from break room

Starting point is 00:09:31 punishment for hours all right you're free doesn't get doesn't get the eight to 12 hour break whatever it is you know that I mean if it's 5 p.m. and then what is like 60 now it's like a 16 hour break or something like that or something i have to do terrible math right now um but a 16 hour break from when she gets a clock back in yeah she doesn't get that break you know and the the terror of that and the um the loop you're just stuck in it's like those um those time loop movies where you keep dying yeah but it's like not fun at all yeah yeah yeah uh yeah that's that it is and but watching like how mark was finally getting through to her and showing his self like what they're doing mark is as uh how he's changed on the the irony that outy mark would not be receptive at all to his brother-in-law's book

Starting point is 00:10:31 not one bit of him wouldn't be receptive whatsoever and they really showcase that but any mark who has no knowledge is changing due to the brother-in-law's book and and a lot of this uh show talks about is about belief systems and how belief systems um like one belief system is is a that's what a cult is they um you know they make you feel like you're becoming your more your most free self uh but really they're stripping you of individuality and then as corny and you know silly as the brother-in-law's book is with some you know true sports and there it is is is is is causing him to embrace his own individuality. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:21 And then as you're watching the inner, I just love watching the synergy happening where the inner mark is growing and developing and the Audi mark too is they're both like equally becoming suspicious without being aware that the Audi suspicious in the East is like they're not aware at all that, but you're watching that, but not only is the suspicion and the mystery coming together from both their ends, but their growths are also happening.

Starting point is 00:11:46 and it just kind of drives home that argument because you have one with Heli where she's saying you're not a person and so the portrayal of Heli is like you are two completely different people and then even some questions we got from the patrons before was like you are two completely different people

Starting point is 00:12:07 and I'm here going like I don't think they are though and then Mark is kind of the demonstration of that that they're not exactly two completely different people yeah it all depends on how you look at it in a way and which person it's filtered through i guess because yeah it's like mark the marks are like growing toward each other they're growing toward a place where they almost might be kind of similar people on the inside and the outside whereas yeah hellie has been relegated to like no yeah you are completely cordoned off from the rest of this person and the knowledge yeah that that the master you doesn't even view you as as a you is wild. Yeah. Rejignation, like many of you, I grew up in a home where money felt like a constant worry.

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Starting point is 00:14:27 Thank you again, Acorns for making my life better. And hopefully it makes your guys' life better too. And I don't know. Like, it's a great conceit because obviously there's a lot of like cool, mysterious plotting you can do with it. But also, yeah, it just reminds you of the question of human nature. And, yeah, like, you know, parts of yourself that you can compartmentalize and are those, yeah, different people, or are those all part of the same master hole? You know, who are you when you're this version or that version?

Starting point is 00:14:57 And then seeing how, you know, obviously it's spilled out into the real world, at least in the hints we get with, you know, that woman she meets on the, his sister meets on the, you know, birthing retreat and, you know, the sort of weird, again, dual life that she meets. she appears to be living. It's a great conceit generally because, yeah, it raises the philosophical question of like, are they different? Are they the same? In ways they're different because it's like, you know, you're any never experiences anything else and has its own experiences and like can inherit things from you from the outside without really being able to have much effect on that. So like it is a separate person, but it's all the same foundations. It's all the same biology. It's all the same stuff. So yeah, it's a great

Starting point is 00:15:46 you know, sci-fi conundrum. It feels like the world, at least where it feels like they're going to is maybe you can film some of these blanks of what I'm getting at here. It sort of feels like the way how, in real life,

Starting point is 00:16:03 how corporate culture has now be taken over societal culture. And that seems to be you know the way of what the show's kind of commenting on like everyone kind of views the severance thing as it's only in this hub of this one corporation on these premises yeah but that's not the reality the reality is it's more of this is the guinea pig experiment or the first stage of growth before we take over the world before this this type of you know corporate system beliefs and product becomes the way they dominate and rule over

Starting point is 00:16:49 all of America subjugation of everybody yeah and yeah it's it's it's really sinister and there does seem to be like you know especially when it comes to like the fucking goats of how

Starting point is 00:17:06 you know you oftentimes just think of like the goats and the sacrificial side of them is where my mind kind of goes and then with the paintings feeling like from medieval times or renaissance periods where you know it's this constant thing in life of like you know we're going backwards

Starting point is 00:17:23 we're going backwards to these more like you know Christian America conservative like more fundamentalist and like how far back can we go with this level of control at least this is what I've picking up shades of right now

Starting point is 00:17:40 could be way off here but seems to be what they're kind of doing whilst keeping it character driven on top of that too you know that's that's where a lot of the time I feel like that's what I thought we were just mainly going to get I wasn't expecting character driven stuff even though it's like so important for any show to succeed I was mainly here for like the mind bending and understanding what the what it was the hype about the mystery of this show but you know It's really like they're, they manage to find the right shades of heart, you know. And I think that's what is making it so good is like the more it goes along, the darker it gets, yet the more heart it also picks up along the way.

Starting point is 00:18:21 Yeah, 100%. It's very much, I think it's got a great balance of, yeah, obviously with a premise like this and a, you know, shadowy corporation, you can do a lot of cool mystery weaving. But yeah, I feel like the whole premise is designed to ask the question of, yeah, what would this do to a mind? What would this do to a person? Why would this draw people in in the first place? What would be the debate surrounding it? How would the rest of society feel about it? What are the plans for this beyond? Yeah, the corporate integration because, yeah, so many things start out in one little sector of society and then find, you know, various other uses in a bunch of other

Starting point is 00:19:02 places. And as of these episodes, we've just watched, especially with, you know, the sister, learning about the senator guy and the debates that are happening I mean, you know, for that character it's probably already knowledge that you could commonly have but you know, for us, yeah, I love the glimpses that we get further and further out into

Starting point is 00:19:21 yeah, you're at this punk show and clearly these people all have strong feelings about what Lumen's doing too. What's their involvement? You know, do they have a family member? Obviously June did who went through this but I assume anybody else in her little group must have had brushes with this too. There's just so many

Starting point is 00:19:37 It's lovely because there's so many tendrils coming out from the nucleus of the concept. Yeah. And yeah, a lot of those are just, you know, character emotional beats. I feel like it's a rare show where both factions are firing on all cylinders. It's like the plotting remains really, I remain wrapped by the plotting, but also the emotionality is very permeating and very affecting. constantly asks you what you would do yeah yeah um yeah loving it uh i think the mystery is really great uh everyone so far so good uh yeah it's like a lot of what we say is probably be very

Starting point is 00:20:23 repetitive from we said the last time since it's because the show but uh i'm excited to get to the next three and then uh talking about the first season man it's going to this fucking great stuff man i bet zach cherry is about to get a lot more interesting too thousand percent man thousand percent yeah yeah when it came to that carries uh do a flip yeah yeah when they woke him up in the closet that was crazy the fact that he you know it messes with perception because he looks like you'd be the guy on the outside who's just like a slacker and it's kind of sleazy yeah exactly and he's like oh he's got a family yeah and then it makes you go shit you can literally like form a whole like relationship with someone on and as an indian be fucking cheating on

Starting point is 00:21:04 your family without you knowing yeah well that's why they frown upon fraternization yeah but yeah it's like you totally could and two is this the outlet for an aspect of a character like that makes me think like is this who you wish you could be in your regular life or you're like your real thoughts that you don't get to express because you're a dad now and you know yeah there's some good uh good little hits you really you care about um wellness lady where you you at first you're going um no she must be sinister too and then you're like she's a victim and all this as well yeah she's just a sad part of a bigger machine yeah like taking advantage of someone who's an incredibly empathetic individual and and and um but Patricia rickette is is an incredibly she's a great villain uh incredibly

Starting point is 00:21:53 engaging she just seems like when you find out a character is like secretly a nazi yeah you know yeah she's so fiendishly devoted to like when they when we get that intimate moment in front of the shrine when she's like reminding herself to you know tamp down the four tempers and aspire to the nine core tenets or whatever is yeah like i'm they continually you know expand the depth of her commitment in you know increasingly sinister ways love it this is great um getting the hype man getting the hype leave your thoughts down below on who your favorite character is and uh I'll see you guys for the next three. Please.

The Reel Rejects - SEVERANCE SEASON 1 Episode 4, 5, & 6 REVIEW!!!

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