Apple Teases Severance Season 2

[sjsharksfan12]

I'm surprised it's coming out early next year. I wonder if Silo will either come out late this year or be a spring show next year. Either way, I have time to rewatch season 1.

 

[bgillander]

I'm fine with multi-season series... the problem is they are usually made "as they go" without deeper consideration for the whole arc so when they run out of ideas and the "goldengoose" is still ripe they will squeeze it more till it dies... and at that point they usually cancel the show without tying out loose ends...

There was Expanse, it was planned (well, mostly) and had start-middle-end and it was brilliant (book wise, show was... guess what... canceled )


I'm old and grumpy and "timewasted" on myepisodes says 5593 episodes, 284108 minutes totalling to 7 months, 1 days, 7 hours, 8 minutes so yeah... I had my fair share of experience with various forms of shows and how they are handled.

In the past I followed your advice and if the show went sideways or it ended on cliffhanger I usually watched first (1-2) episodes of the next season and decided if it's worth the time...

I think it also somewhat boils down to being older and not having all that free time and prefering solid stories that actually don't requires 20 seasons to unfold into nothing... Movies are nice but they are often to shallow. Longer movies are tedious so a 10-ep 1-season show for me strikes nice balance - it can have more space to develop characters and unfold the story but it has manageable chunks (that you can binge or not) and has proper ending...

I fully agree that it is always disappointing to discover that the writer just had a concept and not a full story, but it is more work to create than consume so I usually appreciate the effort unless it truly seems that little effort was made, and those are usually evident from the beginning. I feel those that get it right make it worth my (fairly minimal) effort to discover when the others go off the rails. I find the worst part is usually the feeling of wasted potential.

 

[thefourthpope]

I loved silo but never read the books

I find it best thought to take tv/movie adaptation of books for what they are and not compare them with the source material

Obviously you can still dislike it on its owns merits (or lack thereof) but comparisons seem pointless

I agree about comparisons; the screen can rarely capture the detail or backstory.

But, in my hierarchy of excellent books that didn’t translate to the screen, Silo is number three.

1. World War Z
2. The Giver
3. Silo

A lot of my reaction in this case was from following Hugh Howey from the jump; he was one of the first self published authors I got into on the kindle store, and it was so cool to hear about the movie option and then Apple picked up the rights and the show was coming, but . . .

 

[thefourthpope]

Eh... I'm not sure. The cliff hanger aspect of (any modern) show is very meh. Instead of focusing on the story and possibly even making it a 1 serie show with nice ending that ties everything up they may end up with "LOST" where they kept making the thing when they already ran out of the ideas...

The Wire is, as often happens, such a useful counter to this concern. Multiple seasons, but with a careful purpose.

 

[.wojtek]

I fully agree that it is always disappointing to discover that the writer just had a concept and not a full story, but it is more work to create than consume so I usually appreciate the effort unless it truly seems that little effort was made, and those are usually evident from the beginning. I feel those that get it right make it worth my (fairly minimal) effort to discover when the others go off the rails. I find the worst part is usually the feeling of wasted potential.

I fully agree, and I mostly cherish it. And I loved first season of Severance as it was a breath of something fresh and it was very creating. The issue is forcing creation when the story is getting thinner and thinner and basically the corpo squeezing creators to make more stuff....

The Wire is, as often happens, such a useful counter to this concern. Multiple seasons, but with a careful purpose.

There is always an exception to the general rule

Quite often there were series that needed like 1-2 seasons to get off the ground (StarTrek DeepSpace9 for example, even TOS's couple of first episodes were utter cringe)...