I have a confession. I don't think "separation" is the second arrival of Twin Peaks or some masterful science saga, or the biggest show on television. I'm not trying to come up with hot downloads - it's just always to feel. Season 1 has some great moments, namely the beginning and end, but much of the environment for me felt like gestures of a better mystery box, but with very little material grounding for the bigger scientific ideas. It seemed unprepared - an "only vibration" approach to telling the genre that sold its very interesting questions about identity and corporate control.

For the most part, I enjoyed the season 2 much more. There has been especially good in the last few episodes, with dramatic changes in scenery, the development of big characters and a lot of visual talent in episode 7 in particular. But unfortunately, Season Season 2 Episode 8, "Sweet Vitriol". Returns many of the same topics that covered the season 1: the standstill of the momentum, continuous characters and twists that are more confusing than satisfying.

"Sweet Vitriol" is a bit of a tangent episode, after harmony Kobbel (Patricia Arquette) on the trip back to the Salt Neck - a former city of Lumon, left to fall apart after the local factory is closed. Harmony faces old flame and her sister Sisi (Janee Alexander) while hunting an unnamed item from her past, which turns out to be the original plans for the cutting off and related technologies.

Yes, Harmony Cobbel invented Norths, and the world never felt smaller. All the time, Episode 8 continues to keep us away from the true story of the show, which once again seems to be afraid of revealing some answers to his growing number of questions.

It has been well found that Lumon is a massive, multinational corporation. We met with cut off affiliates in other countries and saw many suggestions on the volume of work. And yet, every twist that throws the "cutting off" seems to diminish the world more and more. Mark (Adam Scott), Gema (Dichen Lachman), and now the harmony is obviously the The most important people in the world, or at least in Lumon, and the whole wicked essence of the company seems to focus on one room.

It may make sense after "separation" begins to share some answers, but for now, it seems more interested in taking lateral roads and showing retrospectives of fear of disappointment with real discoveries. And, of course, you could say that everything that matters is happening in one office because it is a branch -based branch named after Kier Egan, so it would be more important. But that does not prevent the show's twists from making the story feel absolutely small.

The great discovery of the episode may have worked better for me if we knew something about who the harmony was. Although we now know a lot about What She is also where she comes from, the character still feels cartoon and absurd. All the details added of her past only increase the same unique, vague characterization we have had from the beginning: it is "crazy" because she was raised in cult. And now that she is obviously the most important person on Earth and I still don't know who she is.

Let me be extremely clear: I really liked to see a dilapidated city of Lummon. Episode 8, Like most of the Season 2 of "Squazes", it looks great. The locations are wonderful, the energy of Rust Belt is powerful, and the new tidbits regarding masked Lumon children's labor programs add a new, nightmare texture of the company.

But the real story of "sweet vitriol" is borderline pointless. Harmony appears in Salt's neck, after being fired from her old job, clearly angry at Lumon despite looking happy to return if Given was given her original work as the floor manager returned. In other words, we really do not know where the loyalty of harmony is at the beginning of this episode, but we are just told that it is now a complete anti-lumin. Well.

She hides in a truck with trucks of an old friend of driving to her children's home and begins to rage through the house in a desperate search for something. It is very important, but not so important that she cannot afford to rest in the bed that her mother died while searching. After waking up and snoring a little laughter gas, she remembers her mother's basement and almost immediately locates her original plans for severance.

Why? Probably so, it can prove its role in Lumon's Ascension, or more precisely, because the plot requires someone with wide knowledge to be able to help mark its reintegration.

The biggest thing that bothers me to see Season 2, Episode 8, Episode 8 (which had shades of the worst "lost" story) It was not that it further moved away from the true mystery, or that the turnaround comes out of nowhere, or that harmony is resting. It is the whole vibration of the episode. Perhaps the most concentrated dose of the style of the "cutting off" house, still, where everyone is talking strange, conversations feel separated, and Ben Stiller apparently directs everyone to wipe the face up and act aggressively. It's like the screen has a written message saying: "See how Strange This is. Isn't it so Strange?

Yes, Ben, it's strange. I think it's strange. But there is a good line between effective surrealism and the attempt too. Severance has many fascinating, original ideas when it comes to corporate scientific things. I love conversations on whether the Incts have souls, and the view of society on the edge of dystopia with full cyberpunk. But the show constantly insists that what is more interesting is exciting to focus on David Lynch and say, "I can do it too." Except for proven time and time again that it cannot. There is simply no magic.

At the end of the day, this type of tone is a matter of taste. Your mileage will be different from which specific lines or brands of quietly bring you into a fictional world, which push you from it. It is clear from the general feeling that most people really want "cutting off" and that's great. People need to want things. But I was really ready to start loving him, and "sweet vitriol" again knocked me out, which is a real shame.