During its second season, which ended on Friday, the show has more than a surreal satialization of America’s obsession for the balance between professional and private life.
The star of the “starting semets” Adam Scott on the reasons why viewers are hung on the show.
The star of “Severance”, Adam Scott, explains to USA Today the reason why the public cannot have enough of the mental flexion spectacle.
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“Seede” follows a team of employees of Lumon Industries whose conscience was divided between their professional life (“Innie”) and their personal life (“outings”) Thanks to a chip located in their brain. It is the ultimate separation of work and life, but, similar to “the substance”, the balance is not always respected.
In his second season, on FridayThe spectacle has done more than offering a surrealist satiricism of America’s obsession for the balance of life -life – it offered stimulating representations of sorrow, pain, love and the lengths that we are going to compartmentalize and treat everyone.
What is particularly obsessive about the “dryer” is the way he talks about our cultural moment and how technological progress continues to prick our humanity.
Technology, AI provides “solutions” to the problems it has helped to create
At the end of last year, The Washington Post published an article Artificial intelligence chatbots become a solution for those who do not find or do not allow themselves a professional therapist. Recently, Messages have become viral people expressing their love to confide in AI chatbots like Chatgpt.
Humans soothing their loneliness and their desire for emotional connections through non -human mediums are already raising many ethical questions. We forget that there are no humans on the other side of these IA interfaces, just algorithms that offer instant and human responses each time we need them.
The most blatant problem, however, is that technology and AI pose like Baumes with societal ills they have created. In 2023, the general surgeon of the time Vivek Murthy declared an epidemic of loneliness in America. In an investigation in Harvard, 73% of respondents cited technology as a main cause.
However, this achievement, or admission, has not reduced our use. Instead, we continue to use social media as a distraction of loneliness and isolation that it catalyzes. It is an endless cycle propagated by endless scrolls; Our Cyber Stockholm syndrome keeps us in intoxication, looking for ways to numb our pain.
“Seede” explores how, trying to heal our misfortunes, we often deepen our injuries inadvertently.
Is the dismissal really the answer?
Protagonist Mark Scout, played brilliantly by Adam Scott, chose to undergo the starting procedure to escape sorrow from losing his wife, who was taken by Lumon as an experimental pawn. Innie of Mark, Mark S., will work every day without the memory of the woman of her besides. This presents an interesting enigma when the Mark brand develops a plan to save his wife from Lumon.
A fascinating scene in the Seasonal final Innie Mark and Outtie Mark’s watch speak through recorded videos, the latter trying to persuade the first to help save Gemma, the wife of the Mark outing. The exchange intensifies while the two are fighting with their inability to sympathize with the pain of the other.
The exit of the exit does not see innie Mark as an entire person capable of love as deeply as he did it in the past. Innie Mark has a general distrust of opinion Mark because life under Lumon is all he knows. His apathy and his ignorance to Gemma make her save her, and potentially put it as well as all the other innies at risk, a difficult sale – especially if it means losing the love he found in Lumon with Helly R., The Innie of Helena Eagan (A Marvelous Britt Lower), daughter of the CEO of Lumon Jame Eagan.
This “Seede” season explores the subtle sorrows of the starting procedure and myself, which often makes love. It is heartbreaking to look at the versions in addition to Irving and BurtTwo employees of Lumon Coupé whose innie versions have formed a romantic relationship, not to be able to promote their love for each other in the real world because of the vigilant eye of Lumon.
It is also heartbreaking to see Mark S. turning away from Gemma at the very end, continuing the cycle of pain for her and her exercise, to return to Lumon’s golden basement with Helly R.
Throughout this season, we have seen how the sparkling and escaped glimmer of Severance raised its ugly head. The innies of these characters have become more than the working mules of their outings. They are themselves, with their own pain and cross to wear.
The “dismissal” serves as a warning. Big Tech will continue to find ways to penetrate all aspects of our lives, offering solutions to the problems it generates. Our pain and loneliness cannot be resolved only with the very thing that causes it. It is important that we do not lose sight of the length of these companies will go to make us entirely and only theirs.
While our digital personality is becoming more and more space in our lives, it is important to remember you are.
Kofi Mframa is a chronicler and digital producer for USA Today and USA TODAY NETWORK.