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MID-SEASON REVIEW

SERIES

success of the first: it attempts to son to be consumed lightly: it
surpass it and does so with rare requires patience, attention, and
ambition. The series expands its openness. And it rewards with a
narrative universe with subtlety restlessness that lingers beyond
and care, refusing easy answers the episodes. In a year when
and maintaining admirable con- many series are betting on the
trol over pace and tension. The immediate, “Severance” remains
aesthetic remains rigorous, with a work that chooses discomfort
almost geometric framing that as its method and time as its ally.
reflects the emotional state of
the characters, but it is in the
writing that the series takes the the last of us – season 2
most risks: there are more silen- HBO Max
ces, more fragmentation, and a
constant feeling that something The second season of «The Last of
is out of place. This is not a sea- Us» does not back down from the

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