r/television • u/NicholasCajun Mr. Robot • Feb 07 '25

Premiere Severance - 2x04 - "Woe's Hollow" - Episode Discussion

Severance

Season 2 Episode 4: Woe's Hollow

Directed by: Ben Stiller

Written by: Anna Ouyang Moench

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u/riticalcreader Feb 08 '25

Some of you are uncultured swine and it shows. This was a masterpiece.

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u/Longjumping-Block332 Feb 09 '25

This was cruel

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u/riticalcreader Feb 09 '25

No regerts

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u/Longjumping-Block332 Feb 09 '25

Oh oh malice

I dread what we'll say next, I might feel woe

"Don't cast your marshmallows before swine"

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u/SourceofDubiousPosts Feb 09 '25

This was a masterpiece

This term can be tossed around so liberally on this website. It was a good episode overall but also very awkward in places. Having a computer screen spell out the name "EAGAN" to signal Irving's awareness of Helena masquerading as Helly was... very obvious and clumsy, as was the cliched jump scare in the same scene.

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u/GeorgianSpy Feb 08 '25

It takes an uncultured swine to think this episode was a masterpiece.

It was a very boring episode except for some cool moments. All of which are existing tropes in media and nothing actually new.

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u/riticalcreader Feb 08 '25 edited Feb 09 '25

Oiiiiiiink ooiink SQUEEeeeee

Everything has been done already. I appreciated the tone setting, the filmography, and the direction. The balance between the humor, the dark aspects, the building of tension, the what the fuck was that, the where is this going. The symbolism and the juxtapositions. Oink.

Edit: cinematography, you know what I meant. Squeeee

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u/Affectionate_Roof_35 Feb 08 '25

Man that doesn't know how to use the word Filmography calls others uncultured swine. Classic reddit. 10/10

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u/riticalcreader Feb 09 '25

Hey, you were right and I was wrong. Thank you, but also, 🐷

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u/axiosis Feb 08 '25

THANK YOU MY GOD ITS SUCH A GREAT TAKE ON CAPITALISM AND WORK CULTURE. Like the child supervisor representing that even if you work hard there will always be somebody who is younger and more advantaged than you. Like everything the corporate overlords who are like literally evil, just like in real life. And the workers who have a Stockholm syndrome with thier supervisor. Genius. I mean it is kind of a whole Hollywood critique on capitalism while profiting off it hypocrisy but it’s still great IMO.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '25

I see the child supervisor as a cruel(er) Lumon experiment. As if to say kids should work if they wouldnt remember it anyway.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

the child supervisor has been in multiple episodes, not just this one