Split 2: the review of the TV series

It’s a bit sad that in Italy we talk so little about Split which, in an ideal world, would deserve the same attention and expertise with which we have analyzed in the past Lost. Despite being directed by Ben Stiller – which must have made many viewers think of a mass-consumer product -, the original Apple TV+ series is a psychedelic journey that takes the audience to the laboratories of Lumon Industriesa company in which employees are subjected to a split procedure which surgically divides their professional memories from personal ones – do you know the famous worry of bringing work home and home problems to work? Well, at Lumon Industries this is not possible. Because, however, the company wants to ensure that employees do not retain the memory of their daily work activities once we walk out that door? This is the brilliant idea behind Splitand it was precisely the writing and the extraordinary interpretation of the actors, from Adam Scott to Britt Lower via the greats Patricia Arquette, John Turturro and Christopher Walkenthat we fell in love with it. Gone are the first season and that shocking ending three long years also due to the writers’ strike which delayed the start of filming but, fortunately, the second season of Split is finally available on Apple TV+, ready to re-immerse us in a dark and claustrophobic reality during which the protagonists try to break the balance between work and private life wanted by the company to understand what is really hidden behind that splitting mechanism.

In this new season, Mark Scout and his friends will discover the terrible consequences of playing with the separation barrierwhich will drag them further along a path of trouble and pain which, if you have not yet seen the series, we advise you to catch up on before reading these lines. Are you still here? Well, then we can proceed with the praise of one of the craziest series out there, capable of leading the viewer both to try to keep up with the narrative developments it contemplates and to try to digest everything he has absorbed up to that point. moment. When we left our four heroes, Dylan (Zach Cherry) had entered the security room and activated the switch that awakened his three friends’ implants in the outside world in the hope of shedding light on Lumon’s cruelty towards its employees and its mysterious purpose, probably at the limits of morality. Mark (Adam Scott) has discovered that his supposedly dead wife, Gemma (Dichen Lachman), is still alive, while Helly (Britt Lower) discovered that she is the daughter of Lumon’s CEO refusing, however, to share this new information with his colleagues when they finally reunite five months after their plan.

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Irving (John Turturro) discovers that his version of the outside obsessively paints a mysterious elevator at the end of a dark corridor, and that her beloved Burt (Christopher Walken) was living with someone. What follows from there on is almost impossible to describe, but Split 2 it is mesmerizing, wonderful, heartbreaking and unmissable. Between mysteries and revelations, clues and new enigmas that are unraveled as the episodes progress, becoming even stranger and more tangled, the series includes everything: issues of identity and individuality, corporate wrongdoing, capitalist malevolenceindividual pain and a collective responsibility that the first season already tried to bring to light. There is still so much (too much) to understand: what happened to Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) after she was promoted out of the facility and removed from overseeing the completion of the Cold Harbor Project? What is Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman), who now heads the plan and who increasingly looks like a member of a cult, hiding? Between new entries such as Miss Huang (Sarah Bock), Milchick’s young and implacable recruit, and the entry oflove and sex among the crux of the plot, we haven’t seen such a crazy series for a long time, and that’s why we hope that more and more Italian viewers will discover it and fall in love with it exactly like what happened to us.

Split is executive produced by Ben Stiller, who also directs five episodes of the new season, alternating direction with Uta Bresiewitz, Sam Donovan and Jessica Lee Gagné. The series is written, created and produced by Dan Erickson.

Source: Vanity Fair

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