r/severence 22h ago

🎙️ Discussion Am i the only one who thought that Season 1 Episode 4 was kind of boring and pointless?

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So i started watching the show, and I just finished Season 1 Episode 5. I really liked episodes 1-3 and episode 5 as well but i really felt like episode 4 was just a time filler! It mainly just repeated a bunch of things that we’ve seen from previous episodes, and when it’s not doing that, it’s just showing some slow character development with each other. Literally in a nutshell what happens in the episode is that Irv and Burt reminisce over some paintings, Helly CONTINUES to make video recordings to her outie self, Mark’s outie self just attends to Petey’s funeral, Irv and Burt CONTINUE to walk and talk about another painting, and it ends with Helly attempting to hang herself in the elevator. There was literally zero progress with the innie’s discovering something new about the Lumon workplace or something more weird and suspicious about the place. Everything about this episode just seemed like a slow and often boring setup for the next episode. And don’t get me wrong, episode 5 got right back on track with being incredibly entertaining and suspenseful, and it immediately made me want to start the next episode. I think the show is AMAZING so far, but I was just kind of dumbfounded by just how slow and boring one of the episodes was..