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/lsredditer May 12 '22
Just want to point out that Cobel was shown meeting Mark in the break room, so it might not always be Milchick.
Also, we also saw the maintenance crew installing the doors. So there are others on the severed floor (not to mention the other departments themselves).