- Time
- Post link
This edit wraps the first season of Severance (2022) into a movie-length (2h50m) suspenseful experience, allowing the work to be “mysterious and important” rather than trying to explain the logic of an inherently illogical world. It’s meant to be stand-alone, I don’t intend on editing season 2 as that goes in wilder directions such as “Cold Harbor” that diverge from the aspects that drew me into the first season story.
Here’s a cliptrailer: https://bestedit.net/trailer/Severance.2022.Trailer.1080p.webm
PM, or Email me for info on how to get the edit
Below is the high-level edit list:
+ move forward part of Helly’s story from episode 2 to keep it in chronological order
+ move the Ep1 cold open to later to give her story proper pacing/chronology, and recut it a bit
- cut all visuals of Cobel as his neighbor, although we do hear the name in one phone call about the garbage cans
- cut all interactions with Petey, he’s just gone, there’s no outside conspiracy
- cut almost all of Mark’s sister scenes
- cut visit to Pip’s
- cut most of Mark’s outside life, just enough to get a glimpse, the depressing tone and pacing just don’t fit well and the rest is conspiracy stuff with Petey
- cut Burt/Irving and Mark/Helly romance, the only mention of romance is Dylan’s fantasies about himself and others
- trim down the Perpetuity Wing visit a bit
- cut the self help book side plot
- cut Irving hallucinations
- cut the scene of Dylan being woken up at home, just reference it at the party
- cut the breakout planning, rework small parts of the plan into the conclusion of the story
- cut Burt retirement
- cut any reference to Miss Casey being Mark’s wife, although it is mentioned that they knew each other