Synopsis:

This is a fan edit of the first season of the fantastic show Severance, which focuses solely on the perspectives of the "Innies." All perspectives from non-severed characters and outie personas have been removed, allowing the viewer to follow along with the story more in line with the Innie's experience.

Intentions:

After being told by numerous friends that I *needed* to watch the show Severance (on AppleTV), and with Season 2 about to drop (after a nearly 3 yr long wait between seasons), I finally went ahead and subscribed a few weeks back and ran through the first season. I was blown away. The show is amazing, intricate, mysterious, and all sorts of "high concept." I found myself rewatching the entire season, and quickly thought that a Fan Edit where you only see the show from the Innie's perspective could be really cool. So I quickly bought myself a copy of the show and got to work.

Change List:

Any scene with Outie personas, along with any scene that only consists of Un-severed characters, have been removed. Some Innie scenes have been trimmed or re-arranged for clarity, blending, and flow; but is essentially untouched in terms of runtime. The main goal of this edit was to allow the viewer to have the same lack-of-context that the Innies have. We get so many moments where the things that are happening must be confusing for the Innie, but since the viewer gets to see the rest of that character's life (as an Outie) we can't really connect with how disjointing their experience must be. I don't want to spoil any of those specific events, but removing the viewer's quasi-omniscience creates a whole new viewing experience. There's not a lot of detail to go into regarding the changes, so I'll include the "detailed changes" list here: - Removed all scenes that include the main characters' Outie personas. - Removed nearly scenes that include non-Severed characters, unless Innies are a part of the scene. - The 2 exceptions for non-Severed moments both have to do with Ms. Cobel & Mr. Milchick directly observing the Innies and near the finale to keep geographic & scene continuity. - Some very small trims and re-arrangement of Innie scenes for flow and editing purposes; but other than that, the Innie footage is essentially untouched. Lastly, since this is a full season of footage, even with all the Outie aspects of the show removed, the length of the edit was too long for single viewing. I split everything into a pair of feature-length segments: Part One (1hr 53min) and Part Two (2hr 13min). Unfortunately, due to time constraints on my end, I need to call this one complete...so unfortunately there are no subtitles option nor a 4k version. My apologies for those that would need that feature or would like to have a higher resolution version.