Finally finished Severance after 3 tries and it clicked hard

I kept starting the first episode of Severance and falling asleep around the 20 minute mark, no joke. The pacing felt so slow to me and I couldnt get into the office vibe. But last weekend I had a rainy Saturday with nothing else to do so I forced myself through episode 3. Something just unlocked in my brain after that and I binged the whole season in one day. The way the story slowly puts these puzzle pieces together is wild, by the end I was yelling at my TV. I learned that some shows just need a specific mood or time of day to really grab you. Has anyone else had a show they had to start multiple times before it finally took off?

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karenh5628d ago

Tried watching The Leftovers three times before I finally got hooked on a hungover Sunday morning with nothing better to do. Now it's one of my favorite shows ever but man that first season is a slog if you're not in the right headspace.

jana_shah27d agoMost Upvoted

Said the exact same thing to my friend who kept telling me to try it. I mean, the first time I put it on I fell asleep before the opening credits were done. Third time's the charm I guess, or maybe it was just that I was too tired to fight the weirdness. But yeah, once you get past the whole "why did everyone disappear" setup, it becomes this really beautiful mess of a show. Idk, maybe I just needed to be in that specific hungover state of acceptance to actually let it work on me.

elliot_gibson2728d ago

Nah, I think it's just a slow show all the way through.