Severance

[Third Eye]

Anybody else watching this on Apple TV+? 4 episodes released so far and I’m enjoying it.

[Boxer_Chief]

Originally Posted by SithCeNtZ

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On 1, I think it makes sense she would want to go down as herself after her innie tried to kill her and sabotage her entire company. Plus as you said, I think she's intrigued at why her innie kissed Mark.

On 2, I agree and disagree. On the pineapple thing, I took that as more of a sign that Cobel was saying that Mark wasn't important and everything they do is extremely calculated. The gift wasn't a true apology or anything like that, it was a standard calculated decision by the company.
On the other hand, I think there is definitely control going on but in a different way. Watching Dylan G in this episode, I think they are grooming his innie to take over his outie completely. I think his wife is annoyed with his outie as being lazy and unhelpful, but his innie is motivated and "better". That's why she lies as to how it went. And once they offer his innie this opportunity, then Lumen controls him forever because they can always "kill" his innie at any time. Dylan G will become a company man for life. It wouldn't surprise me if several other characters like Cobel and Milchek have already had this happen.

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Yeah I’m convinced milkshake and cobel are permanent innies who took over their outies lives after ascending. Also they could’ve died and been brought back to life like Gemma through brain surgery chip implant. That’s why milkshakes motorcycle is so important because he died riding it and the breathing tube for cobel was probably hers and she died in a hospital wearing the breathing tube. I think the mdr people are feeding human emotion to AI to implant into the dead people. And they can’t leave town for some reason as cobel turned around I’m thinking it has to do with the chip turning off but not sure.

[Zebedee DuBois]

Yeah, I'm with you guys on that thought.

[dlphg9]

Such an awesome episode. Irving is the ****ing GOAT.

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Such an awesome episode. Irving is the ****ing GOAT.

It was indeed a great episode.

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I'm glad they settled the Helly/Helena question. I didn't want that dragging on throughout the season.

Did anyone else get the feeling that the Appendix IV was written by Ricken? The prose sounded a whole lot like his and we saw Lumon wanting to hire his services.

[TinyEvel]

Man there's a lot to unpack in this episode.

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But I'll just start with, what happened between the last episode and this one? Did the reintegration work? Why would Mark's outie let him go on a two day work trip if he's trying to unsever? Or, did it not work? You saw the little flash of Gemma during his sesh with Helly. Maybe it's a progressive thing. BTW: Outie Helena getting it on with a Lumen employee = voodoo! She showed flashes of being normal in that tent too.

[Boxer_Chief]

I loved and hated that episode

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I was really looking forward to marks reintegration. Glad they finally admitted Nelly was an outie and how weird for mark. Irv being gone will be a bummer unless his outie continues on in the show. Like others have said I think Ricken is Rick. Wonder how hellys innie is gonna react now.

[Mephistopheles Janx]

This is the best series "on TV" right now. By a ****ing mile.

[Zebedee DuBois]

That was a fun episode. The whole show is so quirky.

Irv brings the passion! Plus deductive smarts.

[Buck]

Season 1 was so good and every episode so far in season 2 has lived up to Season 1.

[dlphg9]

I like season 2 more than season 1 and I loved season 1

[mr. tegu]

Such a good episode. Rarely does an episode in a show that all but ignores the previous episode’s massive cliffhanger make you forget about it due to how good the episode is.

[Boxer_Chief]

Irv the stone cold killer just bringing the heat. Wonder how Helly plays out now, and how mark feels about it. Damn such a good show, best I’ve watched in a long time.

[Zebedee DuBois]

I have questions about the whole Keir religion that Lumen is pushing. We have very little contact with non-Lumen characters - the only ones are Mark's sister and Ripken, plus a few of Rikken's fans. Is the outside world aware of the Keir cult? or is that just a company thing - a brain washing tool for controlling innies? Is Keir-ism a thing?

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

I have questions about the whole Keir religion that Lumen is pushing. We have very little contact with non-Lumen characters - the only ones are Mark's sister and Ripken, plus a few of Rikken's fans. Is the outside world aware of the Keir cult? or is that just a company thing - a brain washing tool for controlling innies? Is Keir-ism a thing?

I think it's a company thing. They can easily trick the innies into believing there crazy shit.

[Mephistopheles Janx]

Originally Posted by Zebedee DuBois

I have questions about the whole Keir religion that Lumen is pushing. We have very little contact with non-Lumen characters - the only ones are Mark's sister and Ripken, plus a few of Rikken's fans. Is the outside world aware of the Keir cult? or is that just a company thing - a brain washing tool for controlling innies? Is Keir-ism a thing?

Originally Posted by dlphg9

I think it's a company thing. They can easily trick the innies into believing there crazy shit.

I suspect that Lumen is something akin to Jehovah's Witnesses or Scientology.

People on the outside know they exist and just shrug them off as weirdos who believe something out of the mainstream. Internally, though, it is a situation like Bethel (Jehovah's Witnesses) or Sea Org (Scientology) where the cult controls every aspect of their life and questioning the status quo is punished.