Ben Stiller Can’t Stop Replying to ‘Severance’ Haters on Twitter
Severance is the latest high-production-value, meticulously crafted mystery box series to seize viewers' curiosities and keep them asking burning questions like, “What do the numbers represent?” or “What is Ben Stiller going to tweet next?”
We are only two episodes into the highly anticipated and long overdue second series of AppleTV+’s critically adored dark comedy psychological thriller, but the extremely online and avid Severance fandom is already heating up Twitter with their many theories about where this season is heading and what’s in store for our favorite outties and innies. So far, the critical and fan response to Severance Season Two has been just as enthusiastic as it was when Season One premiered roughly 48 years ago in online fandom time measurement, or in February 2022 by the Gregorian standard.
But despite the praise heaped on the sci-fi series about the mysterious Lumon Industries and its secretive practice of separating its employees’ personalities into separate halves with no way of communicating with one another, Severance, with all its twists, turns, defiant jazz and coveted-as-fuck waffle parties, isn’t for everyone. There are plenty of amateur TV critics on Twitter who have penned lukewarm-to-negative reviews of the show that only their few hundred followers would ever read.
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Well, their followers and Severance producer and director Stiller, of course:
It’s funny how, when Severance star and fellow Severance executive producer Adam Scott wants to help the series out with some viral marketing, he puts on a performance-art-esque exhibit in Grand Central Station in New York City for three hours, but all Stiller has to do to get some Twitter buzz is reply to some guy who couldn’t get through the first season without dozing off like he’s Irving after a long night at the discotheque.
Perhaps all these unimpressed Twitter users will give Severance a fourth chance after its A-list director took the time out of his apparently not-so-busy day to personally address their criticisms, which would make me wonder whether Stiller could have saved himself some professional embarrassment if he just did a bit of phone banking after the failure of Simple Jack.