Severance S2 Trailer

[3dender]

We liked E2 but were not blown away. The only real reveal is that

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Mark (and Gemma?) is uniquely important to Lumon's project. Love seeing Burt back too.

Saw a Twitter clip that showed how the scene of them each going back down to the floor in turn was synced perfectly with the scene in E1 where Mark greets each of them on the severed floor. That kind of attention to detail in the direction and editing is pretty impressive.

Also I'll say that this is the most thought- and conversation-provoking series I've maybe ever seen. Feels like the first real event viewing since GOT.

[MikoTython]

We liked E2 but were not blown away. The only real reveal is that

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Mark (and Gemma?) is uniquely important to Lumon's project. Love seeing Burt back too.

Saw a Twitter clip that showed how the scene of them each going back down to the floor in turn was synced perfectly with the scene in E1 where Mark greets each of them on the severed floor. That kind of attention to detail in the direction and editing is pretty impressive.

Also I'll say that this is the most thought- and conversation-provoking series I've maybe ever seen. Feels like the first real event viewing since GOT.

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Part of it seems to be interest in 'bleed-through' - they were keen to know whether his innie in some way recognized her. Irv & Dylan are, apparently, considered slugs or not inspiring interest - though Dylan's feat would, objectively, have inspired mine if I were an evil corporate malefactor of great wealth with an interest in vertical corporate structure.

My guess is, its all a feasibility study in advance of a 'big corporate push' to slice n dice humanity because, yeah, capitalism. Helly's presence, presumably, noblesse oblige.

I dug succession way more :
The ConHeads are, indeed, coming...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmr-mV8-Y_Q&t=6s

[DJ Davis]

I like how they approached S2 episodes one and two. Episode one was the innies’ experiences after the finale, and then episode two was the outties’ experience. I think it was creative how they started the season right back on the severed floor, and you were still kind of wondering what happened outside. Then all of that was revealed in ep 2. More suspense than picking up right where they left off. The writing on the show is top-notch.

Britt Lower is outstanding. I enjoy everyone’s performance but episode two in particular showed her skills. Stark difference between Helly and Helena. The theory is about her is still going around, and maybe there’s something there after seeing ep 2.

[3dender]

E3 is the 2nd best episode of the whole series, after the S1 finale. Holy [shirt].

My whole family literally high fived as the credits started rolling... insanely good time and our faces looked just like this

[Dicktar2023]

E3 is the 2nd best episode of the whole series, after the S1 finale. Holy [shirt].

My whole family literally high fived as the credits started rolling... insanely good time and our faces looked just like this

I think I missed something. What exactly did we learn in episode 3? I was expecting it would end with

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Mark counting "38," but I guess that moment is going to have to wait a few episodes, while we flashback.

[3dender]

E3 is the 2nd best episode of the whole series, after the S1 finale. Holy [shirt].

My whole family literally high fived as the credits started rolling... insanely good time and our faces looked just like this

I think I missed something. What exactly did we learn in episode 3? I was expecting it would end with

Spoiler

Mark counting "38," but I guess that moment is going to have to wait a few episodes, while we flashback.

If your bar for episode excitement is what new info we learned, then we are watching with different goals. I'm watching to see the characters I really like figure stuff out. So from my perspective this is what happened that was exciting in the episode (the bolded pieces are "what exactly we learned" imo that would count toward your criteria):

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Felicia tells Irving about "exports"
Milchick is dissatisfied, and Natalie arguably shares the sentiment
Natalie is trying to woo Ricken to Lumon's end
Dylan got to meet with his wife
Dylan's wife may be more attracted to innie than outie.
Helena wants to kill Cobel (who narrowly avoided it)
Mark/Helly discover an entire clan of goat people who seem like half-formed innies (all of them kidnapped/cloned like Gemma?)
Outie Mark still investigating the Gemma lead
The doctor is still keeping tabs on Mark
Mark discovers Gemma is alive
Mark immediately decides to reintegrate, setting up a fascinating triangle with him, his innie and Helly.
Episodes ends with an amazing sequence on him reintegrating, something we didn't think was going to happen until end of S2 at earliest
Leaves us wondering where they can possibly go from here.

Also:

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Not sure the significance of "38," per your post, or why we'd care about that after the whole timing scheme collapses by the end of the episode.

[MikoTython]

E3 is the 2nd best episode of the whole series, after the S1 finale. Holy [shirt].

My whole family literally high fived as the credits started rolling... insanely good time and our faces looked just like this

I think I missed something. What exactly did we learn in episode 3? I was expecting it would end with

Spoiler

Mark counting "38," but I guess that moment is going to have to wait a few episodes, while we flashback.

If your bar for episode excitement is what new info we learned, then we are watching with different goals. I'm watching to see the characters I really like figure stuff out. So from my perspective this is what happened that was exciting in the episode (the bolded pieces are "what exactly we learned" imo that would count toward your criteria):

Spoiler

Felicia tells Irving about "exports"
Milchick is dissatisfied, and Natalie arguably shares the sentiment
Natalie is trying to woo Ricken to Lumon's end
Dylan got to meet with his wife
Dylan's wife may be more attracted to innie than outie.
Helena wants to kill Cobel (who narrowly avoided it)
Mark/Helly discover an entire clan of goat people who seem like half-formed innies (all of them kidnapped/cloned like Gemma?)
Outie Mark still investigating the Gemma lead
The doctor is still keeping tabs on Mark
Mark discovers Gemma is alive
Mark immediately decides to reintegrate, setting up a fascinating triangle with him, his innie and Helly.
Episodes ends with an amazing sequence on him reintegrating, something we didn't think was going to happen until end of S2 at earliest
Leaves us wondering where they can possibly go from here.

Also:

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Not sure the significance of "38," per your post, or why we'd care about that after the whole timing scheme collapses by the end of the episode.

Nice take ! Some questions/obs :

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What happened to so markedly change Milkshake's attitude ? Why do you think Natalie shares that sentiment ?
The mammals seemed to be concerned about a marsupial infiltration - wierd. Mark's adept mention of lost sheep turned that right around.
Arquette's over-the-top Cobel character rubs me the wrong way. Guess we'll find out her fixation w/ our hero, before/after they kill her off, hopefully but not probably soon.
Project Cold Harbor was mentioned, Mark seems to be central to it, probably Gemma as well. NOT Dylan & Irv, who were temp. sheet-canned.
Irving's prior (scalding) experience w/ the exports implies the innies have been jacked around in ways we have yet to understand, moved around in different 'departments', etc.
iDylan doesn't have the demoralization of oDylan. He's far more on-the-ball.
Those Ricken nuggets o' wisdom are hilarious.

[3dender]

Nice take ! Some questions/obs :

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What happened to so markedly change Milkshake's attitude ? Why do you think Natalie shares that sentiment ?
The mammals seemed to be concerned about a marsupial infiltration - wierd. Mark's adept mention of lost sheep turned that right around.
Arquette's over-the-top Cobel character rubs me the wrong way. Guess we'll find out her fixation w/ our hero, before/after they kill her off, hopefully but not probably soon.
Project Cold Harbor was mentioned, Mark seems to be central to it, probably Gemma as well. NOT Dylan & Irv, who were temp. sheet-canned.
Irving's prior (scalding) experience w/ the exports implies the innies have been jacked around in ways we have yet to understand, moved around in different 'departments', etc.
iDylan doesn't have the demoralization of oDylan. He's far more on-the-ball.
Those Ricken nuggets o' wisdom are hilarious.

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For Milchick and Natalie I think it's race. Seeing familiar paintings with himself inserted into them, he realized that no matter how much he idolized Kier he'd never be fully accepted by the family/Board. I read Natalie's reaction as her commiserating with him but reminding him that he has to keep up appearances.

And yes, there was plenty of evidence in S2E1 that Mark S and ONLY Mark S is vital to whatever the "Cold Harbor" project is, which also seems to involve Gemma.

[MikoTython]

Nice take ! Some questions/obs :

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What happened to so markedly change Milkshake's attitude ? Why do you think Natalie shares that sentiment ?
The mammals seemed to be concerned about a marsupial infiltration - wierd. Mark's adept mention of lost sheep turned that right around.
Arquette's over-the-top Cobel character rubs me the wrong way. Guess we'll find out her fixation w/ our hero, before/after they kill her off, hopefully but not probably soon.
Project Cold Harbor was mentioned, Mark seems to be central to it, probably Gemma as well. NOT Dylan & Irv, who were temp. sheet-canned.
Irving's prior (scalding) experience w/ the exports implies the innies have been jacked around in ways we have yet to understand, moved around in different 'departments', etc.
iDylan doesn't have the demoralization of oDylan. He's far more on-the-ball.
Those Ricken nuggets o' wisdom are hilarious.

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For Milchick and Natalie I think it's race. Seeing familiar paintings with himself inserted into them, he realized that no matter how much he idolized Kier he'd never be fully accepted by the family/Board. I read Natalie's reaction as her commiserating with him but reminding him that he has to keep up appearances.

And yes, there was plenty of evidence in S2E1 that Mark S and ONLY Mark S is vital to whatever the "Cold Harbor" project is, which also seems to involve Gemma.

If so, he already came in to the office hangdog. Did something occur earlier that I missed ? Must have because, otherwise, it doesn't make sense. I buy your take on Natalie, though. Nicely subtle.

[3dender]

Nice take ! Some questions/obs :

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What happened to so markedly change Milkshake's attitude ? Why do you think Natalie shares that sentiment ?
The mammals seemed to be concerned about a marsupial infiltration - wierd. Mark's adept mention of lost sheep turned that right around.
Arquette's over-the-top Cobel character rubs me the wrong way. Guess we'll find out her fixation w/ our hero, before/after they kill her off, hopefully but not probably soon.
Project Cold Harbor was mentioned, Mark seems to be central to it, probably Gemma as well. NOT Dylan & Irv, who were temp. sheet-canned.
Irving's prior (scalding) experience w/ the exports implies the innies have been jacked around in ways we have yet to understand, moved around in different 'departments', etc.
iDylan doesn't have the demoralization of oDylan. He's far more on-the-ball.
Those Ricken nuggets o' wisdom are hilarious.

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For Milchick and Natalie I think it's race. Seeing familiar paintings with himself inserted into them, he realized that no matter how much he idolized Kier he'd never be fully accepted by the family/Board. I read Natalie's reaction as her commiserating with him but reminding him that he has to keep up appearances.

And yes, there was plenty of evidence in S2E1 that Mark S and ONLY Mark S is vital to whatever the "Cold Harbor" project is, which also seems to involve Gemma.

If so, he already came in to the office hangdog. Did something occur earlier that I missed ? Must have because, otherwise, it doesn't make sense. I buy your take on Natalie, though. Nicely subtle.

Before he gets to the office he encounters Mark's deflated balloons from the previous ep, which I took as reminding him that he still doesn't have MDR under control.

[DJ Davis]

Definitely cool to see Merritt Wever join the cast. I had to rack my brain to remember where I’d seen her, but I knew it was a performance and character that had an impact with me. It was from Nurse Jackie.

That interaction between her and Dylan G. certainly was interesting. Dylan is a go-getter inside Lumon, earning all of his perks, but his outtie is kinda a loser without that job. And fact she didn’t tell him anything about it until he asked. Clearly, she saw something in Dylan G that she wishes his outtie would be.

The little comedy bits interspersed are so well done. “Do we live on a cattle ranch?”

“Who is that child?” {static} “Ms. Huang”

[DJ Davis]

E3 is the 2nd best episode of the whole series, after the S1 finale. Holy [shirt].

My whole family literally high fived as the credits started rolling... insanely good time and our faces looked just like this

I think I missed something. What exactly did we learn in episode 3? I was expecting it would end with

Spoiler

Mark counting "38," but I guess that moment is going to have to wait a few episodes, while we flashback.

If your bar for episode excitement is what new info we learned, then we are watching with different goals. I'm watching to see the characters I really like figure stuff out. So from my perspective this is what happened that was exciting in the episode (the bolded pieces are "what exactly we learned" imo that would count toward your criteria):

Spoiler

Felicia tells Irving about "exports"
Milchick is dissatisfied, and Natalie arguably shares the sentiment
Natalie is trying to woo Ricken to Lumon's end
Dylan got to meet with his wife
Dylan's wife may be more attracted to innie than outie.
Helena wants to kill Cobel (who narrowly avoided it)
Mark/Helly discover an entire clan of goat people who seem like half-formed innies (all of them kidnapped/cloned like Gemma?)
Outie Mark still investigating the Gemma lead
The doctor is still keeping tabs on Mark
Mark discovers Gemma is alive
Mark immediately decides to reintegrate, setting up a fascinating triangle with him, his innie and Helly.
Episodes ends with an amazing sequence on him reintegrating, something we didn't think was going to happen until end of S2 at earliest
Leaves us wondering where they can possibly go from here.

Also:

Spoiler

Not sure the significance of "38," per your post, or why we'd care about that after the whole timing scheme collapses by the end of the episode.

Nice take ! Some questions/obs :

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What happened to so markedly change Milkshake's attitude ? Why do you think Natalie shares that sentiment ?
The mammals seemed to be concerned about a marsupial infiltration - wierd. Mark's adept mention of lost sheep turned that right around.
Arquette's over-the-top Cobel character rubs me the wrong way. Guess we'll find out her fixation w/ our hero, before/after they kill her off, hopefully but not probably soon.
Project Cold Harbor was mentioned, Mark seems to be central to it, probably Gemma as well. NOT Dylan & Irv, who were temp. sheet-canned.
Irving's prior (scalding) experience w/ the exports implies the innies have been jacked around in ways we have yet to understand, moved around in different 'departments', etc.
iDylan doesn't have the demoralization of oDylan. He's far more on-the-ball.
Those Ricken nuggets o' wisdom are hilarious.

Regarding Cold Harbor, one of the theories on the Internet is:

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Lumon is trying to clone Kier and unlock immortality for the Eagans. The goats could be connected to that in some way. The macro data refinement is trying to rebuild Kier’s consciousness. Gemma might actually be a clone. Ms. Huang is a younger clone of Gemma, or perhaps Mark’s and Gemma’s daughter.

[MikoTython]

You say you're worried that Severance will just wonder around willy-nilly making up silly ap-cray indefinitely, just to meander to a bolluxed-up hackified whimpery end ?

Is THAT what's botherin' ya, bunky ?

Worry no more : 'I Have an End Point': Severance Creator Teases His Master Plan for the Show

https://www.cbr.com/severance-creator-masterplan-show/

[FrankTheTank]

'You Have To Let The Show Surprise You'
Erickson assured fans he has a definitive ending for the show. "I have an end point," he confirmed. "I have elements that I want to hit along the way, but it's more of connecting the dots thing than it is a strict road map." There's plenty of leeway for improvisation, however. Season 1's Music/Dance Experience was not in the original script and the cast performed that on the fly. "You have to let the show be alive, and you have to let the show surprise you," he added. Sometimes the show decides which way we're going to go, because all of a sudden you see a performance, or you see a detail that you didn't expect to fall in love with, but you do… We have to see where that goes."

Definitely cool to see Merritt Wever join the cast. I had to rack my brain to remember where I’d seen her, but I knew it was a performance and character that had an impact with me. It was from Nurse Jackie.

She was also on the Walking Dead for about a season and a half.

[DJ Davis]

Holy (bleep)

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So the theory about Helena was right, while at first I thought it would be too obvious and not the best plot choice, they definitely had a compelling pay off. Interesting that she was disrespectful about the Eagan family tale, while Irving defends it, which results in his storming off. Then that leads to his fever dream revealing the truth. Looks like she overplayed her hand.

At first I was a bit disappointed, thinking it was just a filler episode after last week’s superb ending. Nope, this show keeps on rollin

[3dender]

Yup, wild Ep. This season not holding back so far, although

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it's surprising and a little disappointing that they didn't address Mark reintegration more fully

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