Severance is a real headscratcher, I've never seen a show oscillate between somewhat interesting and mind explodingly dull so confidently. (This is bad)

I learned that you don't actually need to have boring parts in the stories you make. And everything can be potentially fun or at least interesting, by the infinite potential of subjectivity, you can craft an interesting path to something that is merely formative setup. Because realistically, not everything CAN be your hook-grade material.

I can sense the director's (Ben Stiller) intentions. "Lets let the audience simmer in this boiling piss for ten whole minutes, so the surreal intrigue stuff actually feels like a relief by contrast."

Yes. Every character is a myyystery, but in an excruciatingly tedious, static sort of way. I'm sure in ten episodes everything I was led to think will be proven 100 percent incorrect and actually it's the opposite. Haha don't you feel stupid for responding to the management's obnoxious corpo-villain behaviors at face value???

Then of course the corporate cult stuff is them doing some Black Mirror shit, with the most obnoxious, finger-in-the-eye concept they could think up while doing drugs and raping children the night before.

This is like an aberrant extradimensional butt baby of The Office, that filters out only the choicest difficult-to-watch aspects.