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Severance - 2x08 "Sweet Vitriol" - Episode Discussion

Season 2 Episode 8: Sweet Vitriol

Aired: March 7, 2025

Synopsis: Discoveries are made.

Directed by: Ben Stiller

Written by: Adam Countee & K. C. Perry

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I thought that episode was excellent.

I saw a review on IMDB saying it could have been ten minutes, and I can't help wondering whether that person has watched any of the rest of the show until this point. The whole thing has been glacially slow, even if it doesn't really feel that way.

And by reserving an entire episode just for Harmony's back story, they didn't have to interrupt the main timeline.
- And by reserving an entire episode just for Harmony's back story, they didn't have to interrupt the main timeline.
  
  I'm not sure what you mean by that. They interrupted the timeline by an entire episode, even more if we consider the last episode.
  
  Like others here I still like the feel and aesthetics of the show but the pacing is odd to me.
- What made it excellent for you?
  
  Overall, I am fascinated by how they manage to make the pace both slow and suspenseful at the same time. But in this episode, the suspense was completely missing for me, and the revelations felt very on the nose.
  
  I don't really know, but something about it had me gripped.
  
  I'm ADHD as fuck so very rarely watch something without having my phone in my hand. Didn't do that with this episode.
  
  Funnily enough it's the opposite for me, usually I'm gripped by every episode, but this one I ended up doing other things after 15 minutes, something I haven't done with any episode of Sererance yet.
- I have watched all severance episodes, and some many times. This was undeniably the worse episode. The events that took place could easily have been a 10 minute side story from a different episode, but instead they made it an entire episode.
  
  Yes, other episodes have been glacially slow, but in those we gain lots of insight into the universe, or at least we spend time with the characters we care about.

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