Severance Season 2

I previously wrote that Pluribus and Severance are shows about different forms for mind control, but Severance as a series is also a form of mind control, which works by presenting the viewer with several mysteries that don't make any sense, and dragging out those mysteries as out as long as possible to keep people watching.  The show will occasionally give the audience an answer to a question that they are yearning to know, but add a couple of new mysteries to keep them hooked.  This works very effectively, but leaves me unsatisfied.

Severance is a science fiction soap opera.  The characters are so good that we care about what happens to them, which is another mystery that the show drags out as long as it can get away with.

Another series, The X-Files, followed a similar "mystery box" formula, keeping the audience in the dark for as long as possible, but I quickly lost patience with the show.

Compare this to another Apple TV science fiction series, Pluribus, which is so rich in detail that I watched the first four episodes four times each.  However, I can't see myself rewatching Severance, because the viewing experience is all about getting the answers to the mysteries that the show presents.  Nor do I think that Severance is a particularly rich show; season 2 is essentially a ramped up version of season 1.  Naturally, the second season ends on a cliffhanger, but it is one that is so chaotic that like the first season ending, it is hard to imagine where the show goes from here.  If season 3 repeats the same formula, I expect that the audience will get bored with it. 

I keep going back to the fact that the series really doesn't make any sense; there are so many elements of this show that are weird.  I am strongly reminded of a British 1960s science fiction TV series called "The Prisoner", which is about a retired intelligence agent imprisoned on a strange island with strange people who are also prisoners.  His captors want to know why the main character chose to leave the intelligence service, and subject him to different experiences as a form of interrogation.  The show is best described as "trippy", which especially applies to the bizarre ending.

Severance second season has a couple of episodes that feel like filler.  These drag on too long and don't serve much purpose, so they could have condensed the 10 episode season down to 8 or 9.

Of course, I will watch Season 3 when it comes out in 2027, because I want to know how the story ends.  So it appears to me that I am being mind controlled.