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"Severance" as Marxist horror
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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
to be fair, the creator/writer has said that he formulated the plot while he was working in an office - they might not have set out to strictly write a show purely critiquing labour from a marxist perspective, but at the same time it does seem like a natural conclusion that the show arrives at based on how the show tries to tie so many threads back to the alienation at the base of the concept
Season 1 I agree that those themes and grievances largely bore out, but season 2 was straight up mystery box with a damsel in distress. I've essentially lost interest in the show as holding any critique on [stand in monopoly corporation]. It's on the same trajectory as black mirror and all pseudo dark scifi on streaming platform that came before it.
I hear you. To be fair, the article was written about half-way through season 2, episode 4 or 5, so the writer may not have had the full picture of the second season yet.
Yep that's fair