[Severance] Have Irvposters lost the plot?
I'm seeing a lot of takes about whatever situation may unfold or whether they'll have an affair or whatever, and memes are all good, but what we did get that I earnestly appreciate is connection in grief and community for an isolated ~70-year-old gay dudes. It was awkward and kind and real. He was gay because I'm gay, and that killed him and his lover.
Feeling a little weird about the “Irving Homewrecker Arc, Let’s Go Burving Nation” sentiment after hearing him earnestly apologize for having hurt their relationship in some way and being offered a place to grieve. Sorry I came at you just now; sorry if you felt like that was predatory. Like, how many times has someone been ashamed of his mere existence? You didn’t do anything bad. Come by; let’s talk about it.
This acknowledgement of fear and establishing of boundaries is also the foundation on which their innies’ relationship was built. It’s about finding community where you had none.
Anonymous (on Tumblr) asked: I was looking at John Noble's IMDb (the guy who's playing Fields) (and also the guy in LOTR who eats a tomato weird), and it says he's in the next FIVE Severance episodes??? What are they doing where they'll need Burt's husband for the entire rest of the season, including the finale??
I have no idea, but I am really hoping they go the “we as gay men share class interests, and they essentially killed our innies and discarded them like they would us, we can hit back together, we can build a support network for the people they loved, we can arrange ourselves into a shape that can support without breaking” route.
I don't know, man. We value the nuclear family, we value the Eagan legacy, we value heterosexuality and birth, we value ataraxia, grief is unproductive, masturbation is unproductive, gay sex is unproductive, closure is what you need. Sell us your body and let a part of you be spared from your own life’s losses. In Lumon’s baseline narrative, getting AIDS crisis survivors to make room for everyone that is devalued by this model, letting people grieve and find their footing again, and dismantling the company that profits from their grief is my best-case scenario.