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  • Also what kind of cool twist would be Harmony Cobol waking up from a “coma” when she was fired without any knowledge of what she did for the last few years. Would tie really good with the “She’s Alive” at the end of the first season to show how Lumon has that power to disappear and reappear people.

    Also I get the impression that (gunna use spoilers now):

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    There was a bit of a rewrite with Harmony’s character. I don’t think she was originally written as the actual person who made the chips (who Lumon then stole the work from and reassigned her to be some middle-manager). Her actions and the company’s actions to her in S01 don’t make much sense in light of that plot reveal. She’d be a major risk to the company if somehow left off the leash… yet they just let her go just assuming she won’t reveal everything? What’s to stop her from driving straight to Mark in that moment and telling him all about Gemma?

    (Although I have some misgivings beyond that regarding her S01 firing)







  • I’m gunna go ahead and actually, in a way, say Severance. Despite its amazing acting, ending, cinematography and unique premise. Spoilers (general below) - the organisation behind it seems to be suffering from a kind of villain decay.

    Severance S02 had a great and impactful ending that set the stage for S03, but Lumon itself as an organisation is still bizarre and barely explained. It got all the personal arcs of the main 4 right, but not the purpose behind Lumon (beyond them just being some dysfunctional cult). And I don’t mean Lumon is shrouded in mystery in the sense of leaving the user to wonder after being fed shreds, but the whole meta behind that organisation just seems like a complete mess. They’re global and powerful yet seem to exclusively reside in this single building with a management that consists of a half-dozen people purely circling around experimenting on two people. I could go on here if pressed. I want to know more about Lumon but it seems the writers are just focusing on “haha weirdo cult”, “milchick epic dancer” etc.

    It’s set up as a weird combination and criticism of cults (it’s very scientology coded) and work culture in general but hasn’t really progressed much there.