# Severed from *Severance*
> I am genuinely surprised that I seem to be the only one down on season two's execution so far. My friends are all praising it. Some family thought episode three was season finale worthy. I feel like I am walking around the severed floor asking the obvious questions and raising red flags of concern to a room full of Milchicks. If that's the case, sign me up for permanent dismissal and carve a watermelon into the shape of my melon. — Me, [[Severance Season 2 is Slipping]]
Where is my melon-shaped watermelon?
I have many character and plot issues with this season. I was approaching this post as a way to lay it all out. Then when I parked at a Chick-fil-A this morning, the heart of my issues presented themselves to my subconscious and I put thumbs to keyboard and wrote em out.
They had too much time during the strike. They reneged/rewrote rules of this weird world and its context from season one for the sake of “wouldn’t it be cool if…” ideas that detracted from the core plot. Characters were siloed, not for development but for oddities and observations. The creative team on Severance shoved characters in rooms and let us observe them. Audiences seem to have gobbled up the aimlessness thanks to the spectacle of "mysterious and important" television goatherded by undeserved twists and off-the-shelf plot devices. If the goal was to make the show as Kier-approved as possible, then I applaud them for there dedication to the bit.