Why did Jame (Helena's father) say to Hely R, "You tricked me, my Hely R" when he sneaks up on her while she's alone in the MDR office? How did she trick him? How is she "his" Hely R?

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Anonymous wrote:This episode was everything. Wow!!!

Milchick came through in that scene! I’m pulling for his character redemption because that actor is crazy talented.

This show has some talent. Wow!

I agree re the Milchick scene! That was maybe the best scene of the season for me so far!

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Anonymous wrote:I know I am backtracking…but when did Gemma discuss drowning?

In the beginning of the previous episode, that perilous looking nurse was asking her questions - I think it was how she would prefer to die - and drowning was an option.

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I'm starting to feel like we're never going to know.

Jame Eagan? I have no idea what on earth he is about, but he's definitely creepy and threatening.

Mark? Seems doomed at this point.

I don't have much hope for this going anywhere good. Like, in four seasons we'll still be hoping Gemma and Mark will meet again or something?

Anonymous wrote:I know I am backtracking…but when did Gemma discuss drowning?

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Anonymous wrote:This episode was everything. Wow!!!

Milchick came through in that scene! I’m pulling for his character redemption because that actor is crazy talented.

This show has some talent. Wow!

I agree re the Milchick scene! That was maybe the best scene of the season for me so far!

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

One other thing in hung up on—has there been any indication of what knowledge or information the innies vs. outties retain? I couldn’t work out that the innies believed the waterfall they saw during their outdoor adventure thingy was the biggest one in the world. They seem to possess some sort of baseline knowledge of the world-mark knew what sex was, and when we were introduced to Hellie, we didn’t see her go through some of start up programming to inform her baseline intellect. I guess I feel like I can’t reconcile that bit. Did I fall asleep at some point and miss something?

I was thinking about that too but I think it’s like amnesia. When someone has amnesia after a brain injury you don’t need to teach them stuff like what sex is or how to use a fork. Even stuff they learned about well after they learned their names and where they are from. So they retain certain baseline knowledge and skill sets. I think they even remember languages they learned. It must all be stored in different parts of the brain, so it makes sense to me that you could sever just one part. I don’t know if people with amnesia remember what the largest waterfall is!

I did think about how every innie is a virgin and most have never been kissed. Also, for the goat people—do their outies wonder why they smell like goat and have animal bites, etc.?

I’m so sad for the prison guard wife. And also for Miss Huang—she is so sad she has to leave her family. I guess she wasn’t at the creepy boarding school. I guess this is how you make a Natalie.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

One other thing in hung up on—has there been any indication of what knowledge or information the innies vs. outties retain? I couldn’t work out that the innies believed the waterfall they saw during their outdoor adventure thingy was the biggest one in the world. They seem to possess some sort of baseline knowledge of the world-mark knew what sex was, and when we were introduced to Hellie, we didn’t see her go through some of start up programming to inform her baseline intellect. I guess I feel like I can’t reconcile that bit. Did I fall asleep at some point and miss something?

Anonymous wrote:This episode was everything. Wow!!!

Milchick came through in that scene! I’m pulling for his character redemption because that actor is crazy talented.

This show has some talent. Wow!

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Anonymous wrote:https://nypost.com/2025/02/21/real-estate/severance-building-is-a-real-place-in-new-jersey-and-you-can-even-visit-there/

The shows location is in NJ and you can go into building!!!

DCUM field trip!

Here’s what I’ve been wondering about…why did Irving decide to be severed? We know the reasons that the other characters made this choice, but unless I
missed something, I don’t think we know what led Irving to Lumon.

And why are there so many references to drowning and water — not just Gemma’s response to the nurse’s question about fearing suffocation or drowning more, but also:

Irving torturing Helena by basically water-boarding her in the waterfall,

the comment about outie Irving going on a long voyage (did Milchick say that?),

the eerie whistling of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a song that is about a shipwreck and drowning,

the picture in outie Irving’s apartment of a sailor who might have been his dad;

and Cold Harbor — the name of the supremely mysterious and important project that Mark is working on and the last room that Gemma will enter.

Also, not water-related, but in the episode 7 flashback scene to Mark and Gemma and Devon and Rycken at dinner, why was Rycken so normal then? He and Mark even seemed friendly. What changed after that for him?

And finally, is it cheating if I watch episode 8 tonight while my husband is out of town? I did that once with The Americans and I still feel terrible about it.

Good question. Also, why would Mark's sister even choose Rycken. His personality is completely and utterly unappealing to me. So insecure and needy.

Finally, this is probably obvious, but severing would be such a great tool for the military. No PTSD. Very easy to get severed soldiers to do anything you want, because they have no context.

Black Mirror did a version of this -- hacking soldier brains

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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.

One other thing in hung up on—has there been any indication of what knowledge or information the innies vs. outties retain? I couldn’t work out that the innies believed the waterfall they saw during their outdoor adventure thingy was the biggest one in the world. They seem to possess some sort of baseline knowledge of the world-mark knew what sex was, and when we were introduced to Hellie, we didn’t see her go through some of start up programming to inform her baseline intellect. I guess I feel like I can’t reconcile that bit. Did I fall asleep at some point and miss something?

Yeah -- I've been wondering about this too.