Severance - The Lorehounds & Properly Howard

Thank you for creating such an incredible podcast! What detailed and thorough analysis of Severance! I have never been one to geek out on shows, but since the start of season 2, my family and I have searched the internet for clues and commentary. Yours is by far my favorite podcast and I can’t get enough. I appreciate the research you’ve put into each episode and your humor and chemistry together is delightful. I find myself in conversation with you as I listen along…Bravo!

Just listened to last watch back pod on Severance. So many good connections made and yet… like you all have a whole section of your conversation devoted to the music selections that you call needle drop. And you couldn’t just look up “Work Song” to know who the original artist is and make the last meaningful connection? Oscar Brown’s “Work Song” first performed by Nat “Cannonball” Adderley in 1960, famously covered by Nina Simone, is a narrative of the Black experience of historic American prison labor and plantation slavery. The work song has its own history as a Black American practice of field songs and hollers used for passing along information including possible ways of escape through song while held captive and forced to labor. Like….it was right there. So much there in the Innie’s predicament and back to Hampton’s descriptions of child labor in the ether factor at Salt’s Neck. What a weird thing to miss when you could have just looked it up even while talking to each other. I just don’t get it. But on second thought, considering how hard the group laughed when one among you made an actually keen observation of Mr. Milchick’s experience as an obviously minoritized employee, I guess the weird “blind spots” track. (And l one of you continuing to refer to Helena as Helaina, after two seasons. Bizarre)

The finale was fantastic and you are honestly ruining the joy I had in watching and sharing it with family and friends. I had to stop listening. Please consider your opinions are not the end all be all and your takes do not reflect the quality of the show and the ending to season 2.

I really enjoyed listening to this podcast weekly until last week’s episode when you read a racist listeners comment about Milchick. Why would you even repeat such a vile comment? As if black people can only be wordsmiths because of incarceration. How repellent! Bye…