The Pet Critics Have Spoken, Animals Adore Watching a Certain Oscar Winner, and Hate One Hit TV Show

Mar. 15, 2025

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After the 2025 Oscars aired on March 2, pets across the globe seemed to weigh in on their favorite projects as well.

Flow, which won forBest Animated Featureat the 97thAcademy Awardsceremony, appears to put pets at ease when they watch.

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The Gints Zilbalodis-directed film sees a lone black cat make friends with an unlikely bunch after a flood washes away their world. In the movie, which offers no dialogue, the group of animals travel on a boat to a safer destination while looking out for one another along the way.

“He’s never been very interested in movies before,” his owner writes over the footage. “He watched the entire movie with me.”

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Though many videos like his can be seen on social media, ones that include clips of pets watchingSeveranceare a bit different.

“My biggest concern was thinking something was wrong with my dog, and then feeling guilty when I realized it was the show,” Mikayla Souza told theWashington Poston Monday, March 10.

“I still love the show, but only watch with AirPods or subtitles now so Knox doesn’t get scared,” she said ofSeverance.

John Hickey told thePostthat his dog, Payton, “freaked out and she leaped off her bed, leaped to me, was trying to hide behind me,” when he tuned in to the popular series.

Severancefollows “a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives,” according to asynopsis.

According to experts who spoke with thePost, it’s not just the mundane work culture that has pets reeling.

“It can be very stimulating,” veterinary surgeon Courtney Campbell said about high-pitched sounds dogs can hear that people can’t.

Severancererecording mixer Jacob Ribicoff offered some insight, saying, “Even though [executive producer]Ben Stillerand the team tend to favor low end sounds, I consistently used some high pitched sounds.”

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“These would happen around the elevator transitions, the high pitched beep for the card scan, the elevator dings (which are airplane alert dings), and the fritzy sound you hear when you see the characters’ eyes fluttering at the moment of transition [between selves],” he said. “That sound is a combination of crackly static and tiny, sharp, high-pitched tones.”

The colors used in the series can also play a role, as canines’ eyes can be more sensitive than humans, the outlet said.

Severancecinematographer Jessica Lee Gagné previously toldAwards Dailythey used lots of blues to convey “calmness, which can relate to the illusion of serenity that Lumon gives off.”

source: people.com