Severance fingerprintHigh energy, strong craft, light on feelings.
Tense and scary
Builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Profoundly sad and moving
Some dark humor
Not a comedy at heart.
Everyday modern life, the mind, and crime
Standout characters
Functional look and sound
Tense and scary
Builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Severance is tense, scary, and violent. The story builds slowly, so the intensity comes in waves.
Profoundly sad and moving
Emotionally, it's profoundly sad and moving.
Some dark humor
Not a comedy at heart.
Expect some dark humor.
Everyday modern life, the mind, and crime
Its world is built around everyday modern life, the mind, and crime.
Standout characters
The characters stand out.
Functional look and sound
The look and sound stay functional.
Based on the GoodWatch fingerprint: our scores for 70+ attributes of every movie. Select a row to see all of them.
A passionate and disturbing story of one man's battle against the mafia...
Overall: Similar vibe.
Quick answers from GoodWatch data.
Severance is included with a subscription to Eternal Family in the United States. You can watch it free with ads on Plex, Fawesome, and Cineverse. You can also rent or buy it from Fandango At Home. All links in Where to Watch go to these licensed services.
Mostly. It's well received, with a GoodWatch score of 70/100 (IMDb 5 and Metacritic 88). The GoodWatch score combines critic and audience ratings.
Content advisories: violence, nudity, sexual content, strong language, and drug use.
1 h 35 min
Severance runs 1 h 35 min.
Not quite. Critics rate Severance higher (88) than audiences (62). It may be more rewarding than it is crowd-pleasing.
It was made in English.
+117GoodWatch finds legal streaming, rental, or purchase options for Severance in 131 countries. Pick any of them in Where to Watch to see the local services.
TV Tropes lists 28 storytelling tropes for Severance, including All Myths Are True, Final Girl, Mood Whiplash.
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