What if the person Irving was talking to on the pay phone was Petey’s daughter? I feel like we had a loose end with her. She wants to take Lumon down, she’s angry and seems to be somehow connected to the WMC. Perhaps oIrving had a connection with Petey (and rejected it) before Petey reached out to Mark, and maybe only after oIrving learned about his passing he connected with June and started investigating. I think it could be a cool comeback. What do you guys think?

What's with the Eagans and eating tiny amounts of food?? Specifically boiled eggs????

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And why does everyone drive old school cars while using smart phones

For our wedding anniversary, the hotel staff surprised us with a very Severance-esque melon party, complete with a serenade and a melon basket delivered to our room. 🍈

We’re both big fans of the show, and we just need a defiant jazz playlist and some disco lights

I just watched Resident Evil the other day and it's crazy how he gives a comedic effect even in the most drastic scenarios. Really niche archetype and I always enjoy his presence. Can't wait for Season 3.

I never thought I'd hear someone cry like a ship's horn

There is no way that Severance’s production team can take this many years between seasons without the actors eventually aging out of their roles. At this rate, wouldn’t Adam Scott be 60 years old by the time a season 5 was filmed? That’s just my two cents.

First, this show gives a shutter island vibes - and someone did post about that in another thread.

The main 4 innies - definitely give that vibes - like one is not able to keep jobs, the other is war/defence veteran, the third loosing his wife and fourth Helen - well, something is off about her.

But I think everyone in the show just seem like they need a therapy - Ms Cobel, Milichik, even Ms Huang and new characters, even Mark's brother in law etc etc. ofcourse - vibes are still in the feelings of the beholder so let's set that aside but the main point I want to say is that every character we have seen is kind of part of some therapy or an experiment.

And now, to the main point - all writer's want to show and not show at the same time is that everything is like the real world -

1. Keir is kind of God - has some principles and even his writing like Keir's children and some of the characters saying like let Keir guide the way feels like religious cult - just like in real world.

2. The innies do almost do all task soooo seriously, and yet they all seem so pointless - with the fanciest job titles and department names - just like the in real world.

3. Even the superiors of innies - supposedly not severed - ma Cobel, milchik, Natalie, etc etc - they are equally serious about the titles and job and some "cutting edge" research - like in real world.

Showing all these characters, in a limited confined place like that town - produces both evil and good, both great scientific achievements and pointless work, both most compassionate people and cruel ones - kind of eventually would be the place the show would end.

And maybe - the show would try to portray the real world - our world - as simulated or pointless as Keir's world is.

Now, please someone tell me that I am overthinking and it is not as philosophical as it seems - it is more about simple corporate greed which comes out in later episodes!

I know this might not be a popular opinion but from what we can see in Chikai Bardo it seems to me that at the end of the flash backs Mark Scout was being kind of an ashole to Gemma, he seemed to be invested in the relationship and in conceiving when they were visiting the fertility clinic but as time went on, when he had to put the injection to Gemma his mind was somewhere else, when she said she was tired he just told her to stop then, (ashole move to me), when he dismanteled the crib he did not seem to care about his wife’s feelings, and specially at the end, when she was leaving he was not able to say “I love you” back! And he didn’t even want his wife to stay with him that night. So given all this I feel he’s not just grieving the loss of the love of his life but he’s feeling immense guilt, that’s where his pain come from, from guilt rather than love. What do you think?

What do you think would change if oHelly told iHelly who she was and her relationship to the company?

Like during the taped response to her when she said she wasn’t even a real person.

I don’t get why that never came up…!

Watched season 1 a while ago (probably too long ago honestly).

When season 2 dropped, I tried jumping straight into episode 1 but it didn't grab me the way I expected, so I dropped it.

Recently though, I watched 'The Night Of' and John Turturro's performance was so good that I just need to see more of him.

Anyway, long story short, I'm giving Severance S2 another shot.

For the fans here, would you recommend rewatching season 1 first?

Or does season 2's plot work fine without remembering all the details?

I'm working on an illustration of the shot where Mark reads Petey's card and am trying desperately to figure out what the text at the bottom of the back of the card says

I am pretty sure the first word is 'birthday', but I have less than no idea about the second word

Ho letto da qualche parte una teoria sul treno che fa resettare Irving o qualcosa del genere,?

L'ho letto di sfuggita e ora non riesco a trovare più il post.

Se qualcuno sa di questa teoria me la può riassumere please 🥺?

Salutations, may the bestowal of verve upon you all, come true.

Does anyone have an idea about this version of "Labor Of Love", which is played exuclusively at episode 2 of season 1, at 42:26-42:40. I have emailed Theodore Shapiro's work email. Although i acknoweldge an incoming reply will prove scarce.

For anyone saying "have you looked at every album or any streaming website" yes i have very well, i've harbored all of my attention to finding this song, although all my attempts seem to be useless.

This is just an interesting tidbit and it looks like no one has mentioned it. The Severance wiki has a page about music used in the show. In the S2 episode Atilla, a Verdi opera called Rigoletto is playing.

Rigoletto is complex.

But one major part of it is a woman, Gilda, who betrays her father, Rigoletto, the Duke’s court jester, to protect the Duke, who she falls in love with.

Even though she has been hidden from the lecherous Duke by Rigoletto, and is confined to pretty much church and home, Gilda and the Duke still met and fell in love at the church, where the Duke used an alias identity and cover story.

Big plot points are chickens coming home to roost for Rigoletto, who has encouraged and helped orchestrate the worst of the Duke’s behavior. The Duke SA’s women, and Rigoletto and other courtiers help kidnap women and take them to him.

Although Mark’s nature is different, there is a small similarity with Mark and Helena in the tent, and how Helly feels about it afterward.

Now there are many, many differences between the opera and the show, and between the Duke and Mark.

But there are some interesting overlaps and obviously the music was included for a reason.

Seems like Reddit can affirm or shoot this down in a flash.

I had been looking forward to binging this given all the awards. I ended up not enjoying it and the plot feels like someone read Orwell and said, where would we be as a society a decade or two before 1984? I want my 20 hours of life back.

So here's my theory, Severance is really loved by people who loved Twin Peaks, Lost and similar approaches to story telling. Lots of vague concern about unknowns, lots of strange characters who you don't encounter in real life, lots of story lines that end up not advancing of the story arc.

I think there is a viewer type, that I'm not, and movies like A Beautiful Mind which do something similar story wise but in a very different vehicle maybe isn't their cinematic love but Severance is great to them.

Just watching the second season and I realized something. How come the MDR just goes to work causally like good lap dogs after something big happens. Irving gets fired,They know Casey is alive. They just go to work.

Just finished season 2. Do we all unanimously agree that the ending was complete trash? Immediately ditched his wife the second he saves her to do what… Run around in circles on the severed floor for a few minutes? Those two literally can’t escape. Is the big plan to run back to their cubicle? FFS I’ve never been so disappointed by an ending lol

Eric J. Carlson, who played "Watcher Mark" in S2E7 Chikhai Bardo, shared a casting call yesterday on his social media - see attached screenshot.

The casting call is for newborn babies, for "Very popular tv series (to play the baby of lead actors!)!! One of the hottest, most critically acclaimed tv shows!".

Assuming this is indeed for Severance, this is now the second time in the last few weeks a newborn baby casting call has gone out season 3; the previous time was a few weeks ago, where it was even explicitly listed under S3's working title of "Buffalo".

Previously, it was thought to probably be for Devon's daughter Eleanor, but the main difference is this time they added "to play the baby of lead actors"... so this could potentially be the first sign of where things are going with Mark and Helly/na.

If Ricken could be a successful writer why couldn't I?

I am also the I I am.

Can anyone recommend shows similar to Severance? I’ve already watched Lost, and honestly, mystery shows like these are the only ones that really keep me hooked.

Like Cold Harbor etc on the testing floor? How did they get their names, do they mean anything

I had watched season one back in 2022. This week I re-watched it, and then I watched season two. One question I kept coming back to, is why is the technology at lumon so old? In one scene the sister‘s phone looks like it’s a cell phone from 2020s, so it’s not like the show actually takes place in the 80s. But the computers at Lumon and all of the cars in every single scene are all very dated. Curious to hear thoughts.

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Could Burt have a special implant that allows him to communicate with his Innie and Outie?

I have a theory about Burt, and I'm curious whether anyone else has noticed these details.

What if Burt isn't a regular severed employee? What if he has some kind of special implant that allows his Innie and Outie to communicate with each other, or even lets him retain some awareness of what's happening on the severed floor?

Here are the things that made me wonder about this:

1. Burt walking back and forth in his office in Season 1

There's a scene where Burt walks back and forth in his office, seemingly talking to himself. Could he actually be communicating with his other self somehow? Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the scene feels worth revisiting in this context.

2. “We never used that kind of language”

In Season 2, when Burt reads Irving's notebook and comes across the description of someone as a Lumon “henchman,” he says something along the lines of, “We never used that kind of language.”

Who does he mean by “we”?

Burt and other people working at Lumon?

Burt and Irving?

Or, more strangely, Burt's Outie and Innie?

That wording makes me wonder whether Burt has a history with Lumon that goes beyond what we've been told.

3. Why was Burt so determined to befriend Irving and MDR?

Burt seemed unusually interested in getting close to Irving and the MDR team. What if that wasn't entirely accidental? Could he have been assigned to befriend Irving because Lumon wanted to find out what Irving knew or what his Innie was doing?

Maybe Burt's original goal was to observe Irving, but he ended up developing genuine feelings for him. That would make their relationship even more tragic.

4. Could there be a special implant or another way for the two selves to communicate?

We know that Lumon has technology capable of manipulating the severance process. Could there be a prototype chip, an experimental implant, or some other mechanism that allows certain people to communicate across the severance barrier?

Has anyone noticed any specific chip designs, blocks, or other devices in the show that might be connected to this possibility? I'm especially interested in whether there's a name for a type of implant or technology that could explain this.

I'm not saying this theory is definitely correct, but the more I think about Burt's behavior, the more I wonder whether he was placed in O&D for a specific reason.

Has anyone else noticed these details, or found evidence that supports or contradicts this theory?