severance binge

[unbibium]

when i got home Friday, I thought i'd sleep for 100 years but instead i stayed up until 2am watching Severance.

funny how up to now I'd been so attention-deficited that I'd fall asleep during movies. yet once in a few months I can get glued to a TV show for hours on end. how does that work?

here's all my cliff notes

• it's never even made clear what the revenue stream and business model is for all the evil stuff. my theory is that Pip's restaurants are the cash cow that subsidizes everything else.
• in the dead of winter I kept looking for people's breath and never seeing it. I used to see my own breath here in Phoenix when I walked to work at 4:30am.
• I've been saying for a while that the reason men and white people and natural-born citizens need to pay attention to how minorities are treated, is because always comes around to the rest of the population if they get away with it. Anyway this show is about people enslaving their literal selves, one-by-one, and in the middle of season 2 we find a case where the outie is also the slave, whoops!
• because it's a 150-year-old family business that's run like a cult, a lot of the answers to the more off-the-wall mystery boxes is just: "a crazy oligarch decided it in 1870 and nobody's allowed to correct them because cult rules." makes me wonder what kind of fucked-up shit we'll be doing 150 years from now that's being culturally cemented by rich people today.
• severance is their only real new trick, the rest is just variations on Scientology and evangelicals and every other cult my generation has heard of. I really really really should have known, my whole life the tech industry has promised to make stuff like bureaucracy and cruelty and poverty "a thing of the past" and instead just re-invent these things but with a bright-ass blue LED and a subscription.