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I finished two TV shows today, Taskmaster series 13 and Severance. Weird combination, now that I think about it.

DD and I watched series 13 of Taskmaster every week as it came out – except for the finale because she was on vacation, and then when she came back we forgot about it. Today we finally watched the last episode. I was hoping Chris would win, he was consistently my favorite (the sausage game was possibly my favorite task of the series.) In general the tasks he scored worse on were iirc either studio tasks where he had bad luck or tasks where Greg gave him very little points for reasons I couldn't understand, so that he lost by only three points to Sophie is unfortunate. But overall it was a great season that I enjoyed a lot.


We also finished watching Severance, I for the first time and DD the second time. The show consistently got better throughout the season, and while we started out watching an episode a day I was glad that we could watch the entire second half over the long weekend. That was a very exciting build-up to an even more exciting finale, aösldkfsö that was so tense. DD told me it was a normal kind of cliffhanger for a season finale, which to be fair is probably true but still!! At least the show was already renewed.

They did such a great job with the workplace dystopia, holy shit. Juuust on the level of "this could never happen in real life" but with a tiny kernel of doubt because you just know that there are executives out there who have fantasized about this exact thing. The Break Room! I was almost expecting them to add "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" at the end every time.

I liked the characters, too. I was hoping Mark S. and Helly R. would stay platonic (there don't have to be romantic feelings when you add a woman to a group!) but ah well, can't have everything, and other than that I liked the two of them together a lot, they worked well together despite or rather because of their differences. I really liked Mark Scout and Devon's relationship too, and Irving B. & Burt G.'s. (I briefly checked to see if there was a consensus for how to tell apart "innie" and "outie" when writing about them – I hate those terms so much btw I'm very tempted to replace them with "inside person" and "outside person" even though the infantilizing words are canon – but the only thing I've seen is iMark for inside!Mark and that made me think of iPhones so I'm not sure I want to use it.) Finding out that Helly's outside person is Helena Eagan, and that Irving's outside person is apparently already investigating Lumon, was very cool. I'm so curious what's up with Ms. Cobel/Selvig, and Casey/Gemma, and Dr. Reghabi who's still out there somewhere, and the baby goats!

Date: 2022-08-16 01:46 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] owlmoose

Severance is a brilliant show! I suppose it is a normal level of cliffhanger, but it's still a lot. Very excited for the next season, whenever it comes.

Date: 2022-08-17 02:00 pm (UTC)
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Ha, I'm glad you didn't regret watching Severance AND even enjoyed it! :D

Interesting thing about how to signify which persona, "innie" or "outie", is meant. Wild idea: if the writer is good, you don't need any differentiation? Because the context would tell you so much-- or exactly not, when it's ambiguity you're aiming for. :) I must admit I haven't even looked for Severance fanfic, do you have any recs? Also, I have told my spouse several times now, that whenever I watch them working it looks indeed like macrodata refinement. :D

Like I said before: worst cliffhanger in a long time, but good choice to watch the last few episodes in a row. The tension was really killing me. Also, I totally adored the relationship between Mark and his sister, who seemed like the only normal person around, haha.

Date: 2022-08-19 02:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] dr_zook
In fic you have the context, yes, but if you just want to quickly mention one of them having a differentiation is useful.

That, of course, makes sense! Haven't thought about that. Innie & outie just makes me think of bellybuttons, doesn't really work with me, haha.

Date: 2022-08-17 05:39 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] hamsterwoman
I was also rooting for Chris (and agree the sausage game was the best moment of the series 13) - but Sophie was also great, and if Chris couldn’t be the winner, I’m glad it was her. I also felt like Chris could have won if not for some bad luck during live tasks and some very subjective judgement from Greg (which I realize is what this show is like, so it’s not a complaint as such, but I felt bad for him). Like, I still think Dolly the Sheep deserved way more points than it got! (tho I don’t dispute Laika/Bridget deserved the 5 points)

But regardless, it was a great series!

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