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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven’t read a lot of the posts, but, agree that I feel puzzled by what decade it is meant to be set in as well as location. All desolate. Constant winter. Weird light at all times. What are we supposed to be taking away from all of that? [/quote]

I've entertained the idea that the outies are all actually the first layer down in Severance world, a la The Matrix. So the real world is actually a construct, and not physical, which is why everything is slightly off, it's always winter, etc. But there are a lot of things that also contradict that idea.

I just get the impression that Mark is not a hapless victim of Lumon.[/quote]

I'm quoting my own post here, but this episode solidified for me that the outie world is a closed world of some type. Lumon is a company town. It appears that Lumon owns an extremely vast amount of land and has different towns under its jurisdiction. I was fascinated by Bert telling Irving that he bought him a ticket for as far as he could go.

I think I'm pretty well off of the Matrix-like construct theory, but the part with the train, when it turned into the hallway that they can't escape/come back through, I don't know.

How did they all end up here? And some of them are at least second generation. Is this just an alternate world, but close enough to ours that we are only now catching on? Is it some M. Night Shamaylan The Village situation? Did they all volunteer? No one's outie talks about leaving, or even about going on vacation or a weekend away. I'm still thinking that the outies are actually all severed and are voluntarily in Lumon land.[/quote]

The civic institutions of Keir, PE, like license plates and the city name, have Eagan imagery.  The train was Adirondack Railroad, a real non-Eagan railroad. 
So I think that's outside of Eagan control. 
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