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If you think about it Rupture's "people" – People trapped in an endless office work cycle – they should really hate their "Salas" – Your other halves that exist anywhere else. While the exits are free to live an apparently carefree existence, without rising for work, boredom and indignities of office life, unnimonia have no escape. Every time they enter the elevator at the end of their shifts, which triggers the change to their exit personality, the innate flash and return to the sterile halls of the disastrous Biotechnology Signature Lumon Industries. There are no weekends or vacations, there is not even time to sleep.
Editor's note: The compensation end is now live, but this review was written before the launch of the final episode of the second season. Meanwhile, Apple <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1903054357924549015″>do<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1903054357924549015″>In confirmation today what you have ordered a third season of the successful program, Then we can continue following the stories of the best in Lumon.
Spoilers ahead for season 2. There are no spoilers for the end, "Cold port."
RuptureThe first season came when we were all staggering for the initial attack of the Covid pandemic and many of us were dealing with our own balance problems between working life and life. He presented the central concept of the program, which Lumon was a pioneer in the ability to completely separate work and life experiences, and made the terms "Innie" and "do" A new cultural shorthand. But the debut season also greatly supported the output perspective, sometimes to a failure. In its second season, Rupture It became even stronger by focusing more on Innie's perspective. Do they deserve entire lives, or simply the work of the jobs that do not want to deal with? Are you allowed to fall in love? Are they even real people?
All these are concepts that the program mentioned earlier, but the Innie experience became even more tragic as the second season advanced. We saw how Mark S. of Adam Scott struggled with the wishes to be grieving to rescue Lumon's Welfare Minister, Mrs. Casey, who revealed that she was the allegedly dead wife of her outie, and also nourish a loan romance with fellow Innie Hellie R. (Britt Lower). Irving B. by John Turturro spent the whole season breastfeeding a broken heart, after the Innie who fell in love disappeared. And Dylan G. de Zach Cherry ended up falling in love with his outie's wife (Merritt Wever), who saw the best aspects of her looming husband through her innie.
Innies owes their lives to their exits, but leads a tortured existence that basically makes everything easier for exits. The second season made it clear that the separation process, which implies a brain injection that divides innie and exit people, essentially creates an adult son who only exists to work. Innías do not understand science, history or the main world beyond what Lumon tells them. And, naturally, the courier of the company to INNIs focuses exclusively on the efficiency, production and worship of cult of its founder, Kier Eagan. (It is as if Apple based all its internal culture on worshiping Steve Jobs as a god, complete with archaic rituals and sacred texts).
While we spend less time with exits this season, the program still had a more clear version on the side of the cut experience. There is a fun nod to "Return to the office" Phenomenon, where Milchick of Tramell Tillman practically had to pray the exits to return to Lumon, after his Innie revolt at the end of the first season. In our world, RTO is mainly a phenomenon in which executives are eager to witness their employees working, instead of allowing them to potentially loosen while working at home.
We also have an idea of what they lose when they give up their working life to their innate. When Dylan G. Outie, Dylan George, is rejected for a basic work outside Lumon, he learns that he cannot count his innie's working time, since he did not really experience it. (Somehow it feels like reminiscent of what we could lose when work outsource to artificial intelligence tools). Compensation is not just a trap for the Innies trapped in the Lumon offices, their departures will also have difficulty getting a job anywhere else. The only option is to stay faithful to Lumon, and its beloved founder Kier, until you retire. Or die.
According to Erickson, the creator and showrunner of RuptureThis season was partially inspired by the recent Hollywood writer strike. "We were all talking with our unions and having conversations about workers' rights and what we owe to our employers and what we must expect reasonably in return … and how much of ourselves, our lives and our energy should be willing to give up a job," He said in an interview in episode 252 of the Podcast Engadget.
While much of the second season was written before the strike, "Consciously or unconsciously, I believe that the tone of that, of those conversations came to history," Erickson said. "And I certainly think they will be in the minds of people while they are seeing the program. Because at the end of the day … it is a show about the rights of workers and what they deserve as human beings."
While I saw this season of RuptureAnd I prosecuted the events of his final explosive, I could not help remembering Kazuo Ishiguro's heartbreaking Never let me go. It is set in a strict boarding school where students are raised to fulfill a specific purpose, and their own lives are devalued in the process. But they still love, learn and dream. They have hopes and desires. Each Innie should be very lucky.
Update, March 21, 2025, 4:40 PM ET: This story has been updated to add an editor's note about the end of the season and confirmation about a third season of the program.
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