Switching Channels: Severance (Patreon)

It's been a couple of months since Apple TV+'s Severance wrapped its first season with the type of suspenseful cliffhanger finale designed to be pored and theorized over by fans immediately after it ends. And while plenty of viewers did do that at the time (including one of the participants in this discussion), plenty others came to the show later (including the other participant in this discussion), and presumably many others will discover it even later, and become part of the steadily growing audience waiting to see how Severance deals with the many cans of worms it opened in its season one finale. Shortly after his viewing of said finale, Scott joined Genevieve for a full-spoiler discussion of how the show balances mystery-box plotting with character-based storytelling, whether it can sustain the level of intrigue it established in its first nine episodes, and how weekly versus binge viewing might affect one's experience of the show.