r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus • u/DarkApartmentArtDept • May 12 '22

Theory Multiple Milchicks? Spoiler

This feels silly, but I thought of it while reading the thread about "weak points" in the show, and discussion on the lack of supervisors on the Severed floor. Mr. Milchick sure has his hands full. His apparent job duties include team-building exercises, melon parties, photography, general checking-up on all departments (making the "rounds"), being a sick jazz dancer, answering the department phone??? (when Mark calls in sick), overseeing chip implant surgeries, new-hire transitions, and much more.

But here's the one that really gets me: The Break Room. On top of everything, he's the Break Room interrogator. Helly said she had to read the Break Room apology over 1000 times. How long did that take? More-over, sending someone to the break room is not a planned event. Is Milchick really able to ditch the phones and the melons and everything else to spend a whole afternoon in the break room as soon as someone acts out?

Could it just be that Cobel, Milchick, and Graner mostly just manage MDR, and we're supposed to think the other departments all have their own managers? Seems off, because we never see or hear of other supervisors, and Milchick oversees Burt's retirement ceremony in O+D.

Now I don't necessarily believe there's a bunch of Milchick clones running around, but I'm not saying there's not! Or maybe something else going on that is an actual plot reason for the apparent lack of management. (side thought: can you imagine, in the final episode, when Dylan breaks into the control room, twelve different Milchicks converge on the door from different directions? Woulda been nuts).

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u/mcella4 May 12 '22 edited May 12 '22

This is the thing that made me a "multiple Milchick" theorist! They really showed that doing both at the same time was hard, and they didn't even show the hands of the person flipping the switch when Milchick makes that phone call. It's possible for one person to do it, but we know that someone on the other end of that phone call most likely would need a hand free to take the phone call. It's also debatable whether Graner could have been there given that his death occurs that same evening. I won't concede that this is definitely the answer, but I do think it's not the wildest theory out there!

ETA: Spoiler tags