Jack

Since my Lynch-a-thon last month, I’ve been thinking a lot about my approach to logic and film: as I over-intellectualize everything in my life, so too have I done so in engaging movies.

Today, as I listen to two of my favorite critics discuss their Severance theories, I wonder: am I finally moving beyond TV theorizing as a practice?

To me, Severance is so engaging beat-to-beat that I have placed all my trust in its creators; I trust that they’ll provide their own answers in the way they mean to down the line, and I’m willing to take whatever ride to get there. To try to watch every scene with a particular theory in mind would be to try to judge that theory in every moment over the show, potentially robbing myself of the emotional reactions the well-crafted show was designed to deliver.

Do I understand something logically or emotionally? How do I approach my media, and is that the most fulfilling approach?