Joe Rogan Is Getting Roasted for His ‘Severance’ Praise

People will happily accept Joe Rogan’s opinions on politics, epidemiology and internet access in the frozen Communist hellscape that is Canada, but what about prestige TV? Well, The Joe Rogan Experience host recently took to social media to share his appreciation for the first season of Severance (he has yet to watch Season Two).

This random endorsement prompted countless users to collectively band together and dunk on Rogan for his capsule review — not because Severance is a bad show, but because Rogan’s entire personality seems glaringly incompatible with its central message. 

Severance is a not-so-subtle condemnation of corporate misconduct and dehumanization. This isn’t some kind of deep reading of its themes, that’s literally just the premise of the show. Rogan, on the other hand, routinely platforms the billionaire class on his show, letting guys like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk just bro out for a few hours in front of millions of impressionable followers. And it’s this glorification of tech overlord personalities that Severance seems pretty obviously critical of.

Of course, it should be noted that Severance is produced and distributed by Apple, so a healthy dash of hypocrisy was already baked into the show. But as some people pointed out, were Rogan to exist in the world of Severance, he almost certainly would invite Kier Eagan’s descendants from Lumon onto his podcast to shoot the shit while hyping the severing process, and bemoaning the woke leftists trying to stop it. 

Even if he found out that Lumon was, say, faking people’s deaths, severing their consciousnesses and forcing them to work in their fluorescent light-filled subterranean offices, you can bet that Joe Rogan would find a way to dance around those actions on his show. 

For example, he once discussed the 2021 incident in which six Amazon workers died at an Illinois warehouse because they weren’t given permission to leave the facility to avoid an incoming tornado. And he prefaced the conversation by noting “I love Jeff Bezos,” then argued that the tornado story is “fucking insanity if that’s true,” adding, “I don’t know if that’s true.” 

He did admit that Amazon could be a “hard company” to work for, which seems like a bit of an understatement. It’s no wonder that some people suggested that Rogan may in fact be enjoying Severance because he’s actively rooting for Lumon.

Of course, Rogan digging Severance is far from the dumbest recent example of a pro-corporate brand endorsing an obviously anti-capitalist show. After all, we’re living in a post-Squid Game Happy Meal society now.