And the “twist” isn’t really anything that important. Nobody up to this point has cared who exactly invented the chip. We know Cobel already has a motive for turning on Lumen, she didn’t need more motivation. We already have another character who seems to understand the science of the chip and how it generally works. This just doesn’t change that much in the story. Honestly this entire episode would have been a really effective reveal as a side plot in season 1 where we didn’t really know much about anything and Cobel was in every episode, but now who created severance just isn’t that important given all of the other questions we have.

Her creating it certainly has potential to be relevant especially when combined with her potential relationship with Jame Eagan. But it definitely didn’t need to be the entire episode given a lot of it was pretty dragged out.

Is it perpetually winter? This was the coldest episode yet.

Season 2 is way more sloppy than the first...I'm supposed to believe Cobel is the inventor of severance and keeps the notes in a plaster Eagan head as the only copy? That Lumon would flippantly just fire/replace her with Milchick...she held an expendable middle-management position? There was nothing leading up to this episode that portrayed her as a scientist-type.

A lot of pointless character development in that episode...that seemed forced.

They could have just had her in her house, drinking a bottle of wine and opening a folder with the scientific notes in it...maybe a scrapbook of her accomplishments and an Eagen scholarship award or something....nope, got huffing chemicals on her dead mother's bed and a family cult member.

I was worried when Milchick approached the other black corporate lady about race/paintings...I was like..."here we go...got to meet those woke hollywood quotas." Luckily it stopped there...it was out of character as he's a company man and would never talk about it to that particular lady...she is even more devoted to the company than he is.

I also didnt like Dylan moving the break room picture for no apparent reason...and magically there is a note stuffed behind it. At least make it crooked or something to give him reason to move it..I was like "come on...make this believable".

I didnt like Helena showing up at the diner alone either...that would never happen. She's the heir apparent to the entire company. She's not going to be impromptu interfacing with Mark's outie...ever. I mean asking him if he wants to meet her dad..after talking for 3 minutes? Like Mark's outtie isnt going to extremely suspicious to why the owner's daughter is stalking him?

It's still had some awesome dystopian moments so far...that reminded me of season one but is struggling to make the plot movements appear natural. The first season just worked...

That episode didn’t do it for me, was pretty disappointed in how it drug out. It was nice to see cobel back because she had been gone for so long but it blew some theories I had. I thought the breathing machine was hers and she had died and lumon brought her back to life like Gemma but now I’m thinking Gemma’s accident was just faked because they saw something in her blood they liked. There’s so many questions I want answered and this episode didn’t answer any of them except cobel worked for lumon under the pretense of child labor and was somehow this mastermind which seems crazy.

I think the origin story was pretty deep. That terrible town, created then abandoned by Lumon, kind of like the steel town where my mom grew up in Pennsylvania. In that house, no doorway measurements later than 12 years old, was she sent away to be the child prodigy? and hiding the plans for the severance because I bet Lumon would make her go bye-bye if they were found. It shows she's much more than a Lumon homer, and maybe plant the seed for vengeance, will she help Mark? Or will she turn on him to get back in good graces with the Egans.

I don't think this was as pointless as the 'Fly" episode of Breaking Bad. I liked it though it was depressing and felt like a 15 minute episode.

Before Irv was terminated on the ORTBO, the last thing he said to Dylan was "Hang in there" in a serious way (wink implied) and that's the headline on that poster. Still, he could have removed it or something, not just felt behind it and there is the paper in that spot.