Severance

[Third Eye]

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

[SithCeNtZ]

Originally Posted by Chitownchiefsfan

Have to say i agree. It completely halted all the momentum of the season. And was just a long way to say she created severance. Could have easily been a b-plot of the last few episodes.

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.

[mr. tegu]

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.

[Zebedee DuBois]

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

[BlackOp]

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...

[Boxer_Chief]

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.

[TinyEvel]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

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.

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.

Originally Posted by BlackOp

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".

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.

[Zebedee DuBois]

Lots of progress on the storyline.

After the Mark&Jemma episode and the chilly Cobel origin episode, this one was back at good ol' Lumon. It appears the crew is being disbanded. Irving is put on a train with a one way ticket. The 2 Dylans are driving the wife nuts, and both quitting their job. Helly R is - I don't know what to make of her, Helena and daddy Jame. Weird weird weird.

Mark is not yet fully reintegrated, so Deven and Cobel take him to the birthing cabin where the severed go to innie mode. Players are in their spots for the final episode.

Oh...and Devour Feculence, Mr. Drummond!

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

Oh I think he will be fully integrated meaning he has made sense of it. I don't think he's going to say anything to them about it.

I hope this season ends with him saving Gemma, but I could see them going the other direction. There are a few shows that I've seen that kill off the significant other in this type of situation and I really hope that doesn't happen.

When I wrote this I was under the impression that we were only getting 8 episodes lmao. I was so ****ing pissed when I got halfway through the Cobel episode and started bitching up a storm to my wife about them completely ****ing up the finale lol.

[dlphg9]

Originally Posted by BlackOp

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...

Maybe you shouldn't watch if this is that hard for you to follow and understand.

[wazu]

This last episode was better although after the last couple of weeks that might just be the Stockholm Syndrome talking.

[SithCeNtZ]

Originally Posted by wazu

This last episode was better although after the last couple of weeks that might just be the Stockholm Syndrome talking.

It's been a bit of an uneven last part of the season. Nothing that has been shown has been bad by itself, but taken as a whole the pacing has been way off. I loved the Gemma episode but it was only about her. Then Cobel's episode which again pertained to only her. So now you have two episodes left and you have to rush things which causes huge jumps in plotlines.

For Irving, we last saw him at dinner with Burt who offers to hang out again. Then all of a sudden Burt is in his apartment demanding that he leave which is extremely abrupt. Innie Dylan and his wife had something going, until she just changed her mind out of the blue and decided to tell outie Dylan. What caused this change of heart? We don't really know as we haven't seen them in several weeks. Neither plot development is bad on its own, but both lack any sort of proper build up and development to pay off.

Then you have Mark's will he won't he reintegration, which has gone on since episode 3 and it's unclear what progress, if any, has actually been made. He's had visions and a seizure and a coma(?) and still doesn't remember anything it seems. His innie hooked up with Helle but that was never addressed again as he seems to have stopped going to work entirely.

It's going to take quite a bit for the finale to land everything in a good place entering season 3, but they have generally earned the benefit of the doubt so far.

[Zebedee DuBois]

Ever argued with yourself?

Mark and Mark S. have.

[siberian khatru]

Brilliant. Magnificent.

[mr. tegu]

Loved it. So glad that the ending wasn’t some super crazy cliffhanger. There’s still a lot going on to start next season with but not like end of the first season. Watched a few recap videos and it’s insane the level of detail that is worked into these episodes or even just people’s names.

[TinyEvel]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

Loved it. So glad that the ending wasn’t some super crazy cliffhanger. There’s still a lot going on to start next season with but not like end of the first season. Watched a few recap videos and it’s insane the level of detail that is worked into these episodes or even just people’s names.

Totally agree. What an awesome season-ender. Going outside of Lumon a lot this season I think they had a lot to cover and episode 10 brought a lot of it together.

The elevator scene with Drummond I shouted AMAZING! AMAZING! AMAZING!

Hey what recaps / discussions are you watching? I’m looking for the good ones that point out stuff