The best thing about Severance is that it’s not wasting time

I think one of the reasons I love Severance so much is that there is no dilly-dallying around an important situation.

Innie Mark wakes up at the Book Reading, and you may wonder if he’ll be able to speak to the Devon? Nope, he’s able to explain everything.

Will Mark decide to reintegrate? Are we going to wait 6 episodes to find out - nevermind, he said yes as fast as he could.

Will Innie Irving be deceived and strung along by Helena and Milkshake? Not gonna happen.

All these situations happen not because they are the most logical thing to do from a narrative standpoint, but because the characters are writtine like real people.

No one would ever try to hide their identity if their life is in danger, no sister would not talk to her brother when he asks like that, and no person would not try to look for and understand why their wife is seemingly still alive.

Even in this last case, Devon is sure that Innie Mark was talking about Gemma and not the baby, the only reason Mark is hesitant is because it sounds impossible, but there is no burying the lead, she keeps nagging until Mark concede.

It may seem obvious, but it’s so refreshing to see characters so well-written.

EDIT: one of the things I forgot to say is that all the minutes another series would spend hammering home how much Helena is lonely or idk, the show just shows you; even something as big as the Gemma/Cold Harbor reveal is communicated through an image, not a 10-minutes dialogue.

EDIT 2: as some people pointed out, it may be not only because things are happening at a really good pace, but even when there are not a lot of things moving the show is so well-written, well-acted and put together that it flows nicely without strange slug-pace moments.