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Macrodata Refinement

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722 points gaws | 3 comments | 01 Feb 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.63s | source
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teej ◴[01 Feb 25 22:42 UTC] No.42903220[source]▶
This is a recreation of a fictional computer program from the excellent Apple TV show - Severance.

The work is mysterious, and important.

Season 2 is going now. It’s one of my top 3 shows of the last decade, highly recommend it.

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inopinatus ◴[02 Feb 25 00:14 UTC] No.42904030[source]▶
I am enjoying the form and structure but still uncertain about the substance.

I do hope they have a narrative arc planned with a satisfyingly metaphorical conclusion and will not, like certain other shows in a similar genre, meander from one surrealist allegory to another because additional seasons were ordered. The only truly exemplary production I can name in this vein being the sole season of The Prisoner (McGoohan, 1967-68).

Be seeing you

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1. philsnow ◴[02 Feb 25 06:51 UTC] No.42906619[source]▶
> meander from one surrealist allegory to another because additional seasons were ordered

This is how I find many shows made in the last ~20 years, but changing out "from one surrealist allegory to another" for various other things. Heroes, Jericho, Battlestar Galactica, House of Cards, hell even Downton Abbey... I would add the Walking Dead and Game of Thrones but I couldn't get through a season of either. I never saw Lost but I think it's the same kind of thing. I'm going to catch flak for it but I thought the same about Stranger Things.

All of them had a good pilot and/or first season, but then the rest of the seasons.... definitely came afterwards.

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2. nabla9 ◴[02 Feb 25 15:44 UTC] No.42909346[source]▶
In Breaking Bad only the general idea, the main character turning from protagonist to antagonist was there from the beginning. They filled in the middle part as they went along.
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3. tga_d ◴[02 Feb 25 19:35 UTC] No.42911088[source]▶
That's not really a comparable narrative arc though. Breaking Bad is a character drama, not a mystery box structure. With only some limited exceptions, which clearly were planned out in advance of their resolution, the driving question of Breaking Bad is "what are the characters going to do", not "why/how did that thing happen".