Yeah, it was a beautifully made show and my first experience of watching prestige TV in realtime (or almost-realtime; I watched it online the morning after episodes came out). It was the only way to participate in conversations with my coworkers at the time. But it went deeply off the rails and rarely tied any loose ends together, so you were left with a feeling of having put in the work and gotten no payoff.
Some years ago Spielberg created a library of oral testimonies from dozens, maybe hundreds of survivors of the Holocaust, before they grew too old to tell their stories.
That makes sense - thanks Harry. It's of a piece with him including interviews with the real 'Band of Brothers' soldiers within the episodes in the series.
Really enjoyed the first series of Severance but the second is all over the shop so far. Loads of unnecessary cameos, disjointed narratives and characters that seem to be forgotten about for episodes at a time. I get that it's meant to be weird and mysterious. But so is Silo. The main difference being that the writers knew the answers to Silo's core mystery before they started making the TV show. The rich lore therefore feels like genuine clues rather than pointless red herrings that will in the case of Severance, I suspect, ultimately lead nowhere.
I used to be a staunch completionist—if I started a TV series, book, or whatever, I *always* finished it. Lost cured me of that. lol
I’ve never actually watched Lost (Toby did). Dodged a bullet on that one.
Yeah, it was a beautifully made show and my first experience of watching prestige TV in realtime (or almost-realtime; I watched it online the morning after episodes came out). It was the only way to participate in conversations with my coworkers at the time. But it went deeply off the rails and rarely tied any loose ends together, so you were left with a feeling of having put in the work and gotten no payoff.
Some years ago Spielberg created a library of oral testimonies from dozens, maybe hundreds of survivors of the Holocaust, before they grew too old to tell their stories.
That makes sense - thanks Harry. It's of a piece with him including interviews with the real 'Band of Brothers' soldiers within the episodes in the series.
Really enjoyed the first series of Severance but the second is all over the shop so far. Loads of unnecessary cameos, disjointed narratives and characters that seem to be forgotten about for episodes at a time. I get that it's meant to be weird and mysterious. But so is Silo. The main difference being that the writers knew the answers to Silo's core mystery before they started making the TV show. The rich lore therefore feels like genuine clues rather than pointless red herrings that will in the case of Severance, I suspect, ultimately lead nowhere.