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Severance’s Title Sequence: Full of Clues or Just Plain Creepy?
Why not both!
Extraweg, whom executive producer Ben Stiller apparently found on Instagram, its collection of images is a mix of the surreal, the uncanny, the grotesque, and the beautiful: black sludge oozing out of a crisply rendered recycling bin, hundreds of Marks being sucked up a giant needle, an endless matrix of doors, all depicted against the backdrop of Theodore Shapiro’s eerie theme music. Where the previous opening credits were purely thematic, focusing on the relationship between Mark’s innie and outie selves along with the general mystery of whatever Lumon Industries is up to, this new iteration seems constructed to feed the appetites of Lost- brained internet sleuths trawling Reddit for theories. The credits still have the original function of setting the vibe — especially that final beat featuring innie Mark trying to crawl out the back of his outie’s head, The Grudge style — but this newfound foreshadowing quality fuels an obvious question: What other clues are hiding in plain sight?
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