Severance Episode 8 Review
Never let it be said that the Apple TV Plus show Severance doesn't lean hard on being as weird as possible. From the very first episodes of Severance, it was pretty clear this was a show that was not going to be at all normal. The people inside the world that Ben Stiller has helped lay out as the director are not at all normal. And one of the things the show does very, very well is that it tends to offer at least some explanation for why the main characters do seem as weird as they do.
That isn't to say there aren't some characters, like Ricken who appear to be weird for the sake of being weird or to add comic relief. But for the most part, the people that make up Severance act the way they do because of the life they are living. They are absolutely reacting to the world around them. And that's a testament to how weird that world appears to be, even outside of Lumon Industries.
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Weirdness has long been the name of the game for Severance but it's never been more clear than it was in «What's For Dinner» that the weirdness was often used to mask something much more sinister. However, as the show has been able to do quite masterfully for most of its first season run, it's quite impossible to put a finger on just what is at the root of that darkness. Is the company some sort of devil-worshipping firm that wants everyone's souls? Or it is simply a company that is perfecting how to control people by slicing off parts of their personality? It seems unlikely all will be revealed in the final two episodes of the year, since there's a Severance Season 2, but some answers appear to be coming.
One of the things «What's For Dinner» does to great effect is to show what one
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