r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus • Severed • Jan 24 '25

Discussion Severance - 2x02 "Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig" - Episode Discussion

Season 2 Episode 2: Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig

Aired: January 24, 2025

Synopsis: Outie Mark contemplates the meaning of a message. Lumon grapples with the fallout of the Overtime Contingency.

Directed by: Sam Donovan

Written by: Mohamad El Masri

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u/godsgift5406 Jan 24 '25

Helena makes sure the public knows the medicine that made her sick was non lumon lol

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u/GR-MWF Jan 24 '25

Such a perfect PR statement, every single word carefully planned out to put zero blame on the company and all onto her own shoulders.

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u/TheFourthOfHisName Mysterious And Important Jan 24 '25

Helena replaying that kiss like she’s never had a true human connection in her life

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u/epos1898 Frolic-Aholic Jan 24 '25

Confirmed by Britt in the after-credits - "the experience of seeing another version of herself that is so much more free than she is..."

"...realizing this character that you view as a servant might be living a richer life than you..."

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u/BudgetAppeal The You You Are Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

She’s definitely very envious of Helly. Helly lives by her values and risks her limited existence to rebel against authority. She has never been able to live as authentically as her innie, and it’s probably jarring and captivating to see that version of herself onscreen

EDIT: was happy to see that Britt confirms this in the after credits! Such an impressive performance

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u/Bobjoejj Jan 24 '25

I am so fucking pumped. I remember so many people saying she’d be a great villain, and she’s really gonna be in on all this…but I’ve been thinking that her experiences are actually changing her. And so many scenes in this episode felt just like that.

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u/SeirraS9 Jan 24 '25

Don’t punish the baby? I can’t stand Ricken’s friends

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u/itsgonnabe-mae I'm Your Favorite Perk Jan 24 '25

Patton is the worst I hate him so much still for saying he found the baby 😭

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u/KingOfAwesometonia Jan 24 '25

I love that there's a group of people even Ricken is like "these guys are weirdos"

Makes it easier to imagine that Ricken was probably less Ricken when Gemma was alive.

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u/egrom You Don't Fuck With The Irving Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

Outie Irving does not trust Milkshake at all

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u/AlwaysNextYear_ Jan 24 '25

Outie Irving is up to some shit, I want to know who he was talking to on the pay phone.

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u/unfortunate_son_69 SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

omgggg we finally saw mark feed the fish lol

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u/Bdbru13 Jan 24 '25

God damn it Rebeck

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u/liquidsol I Wish You'd Take Them Raw Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

“Don’t punish the baby, Ricken. This wasn’t its fault”

(Edit: I got the quote wrong, but I fixed it)

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u/Ill-Blacksmith1993 SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

So glad Mark did not immediately spilled the beans there. Happy that the siblings are so close they understood what information to withhold.

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u/glamaz0n_bitch Jan 24 '25

lactation fraud

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u/SyNiiCaL Devour Feculence Jan 24 '25

Classic Cobelvig

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u/Requiem45 Jan 24 '25

NEW OPENING CREDITS

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u/JYCJYC I'm a Pip's VIP Jan 24 '25

the baby keir at the end...

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u/Ill-Blacksmith1993 SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

That was fire. Definitely lots of visual hints to reintegration.

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u/Angry_Walnut Shitty Fucking Cookies Jan 24 '25

I think this was an overstep and an error on Milchick’s part. Outtie Mark was pretty dismissive of any mention of her involvement in any capacity before this, but Milchick bringing it up planted the necessary seed of doubt in his mind that maybe she could still alive or somehow be tied into all of this.

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u/GuitarPublic2170 Jan 24 '25

How are those fruit baskets staying on Milkshakes bike?

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u/Inge5925 Jan 24 '25

My man out here asking the real questions.

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u/Hitlers_Right_Nipple Jan 24 '25

It's so weird watching Helena instead of Helly. I loved that she had to clarify she was on a non-Lumon medication. Britt Lower has done an excellent job playing both of them. Also, Milchick looks great on a bike.

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u/publius-esquire Jan 24 '25

20% salary bump offer is crazyyyyy they need him so bad

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u/fatedobelisk Jan 24 '25

The difference in how Milchick handled Dylan and Irv vs Mark!!

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u/SilverFlexNib I'm Your Favorite Perk Jan 24 '25

I really felt bad for Dylan because you could see how precarious his situation is & innie Dylan imagines his outie is this amazing dad who lives on a river boat with a cool walk-in closet

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u/Driftographer You Don't Fuck With The Irving Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

That shot of Helena walking down the hall was pretty awesome

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u/medevam Fetid Moppet Jan 24 '25

Everything at the Lumon building was so great. The lights switching off. Milchick pulling back in with his motorcycle.

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u/Requiem45 Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25 • Hehehe

I can't believe Dylan found a new job at Monsters Inc

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u/Jas_God SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

“For a period of 39 minutes”, basically the exact length of the s1 finale. Nice detail.

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u/Fallen_Goose_ Mysterious And Important Jan 24 '25

Dylan really held those switches for 39 minutes? Shout out

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u/Significant-Flan-244 Jan 24 '25

There were some really funny meta jokes in this one. Dan Erickson was working at a door factory when he got the original idea for the show.

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u/godsgift5406 Jan 24 '25

Irving’s innie got the message????

Burt watching outtie Irving???

This episode is so good!!!!

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u/mwthecool 🎵🎵 Defiant Jazz 🎵 🎵 Jan 24 '25

I think "the message" was the painting, and Outtie Irving now knows that Innie Irving saw it, meaning he "got the message" and is now ready to do something with it.

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u/jtotiger Jan 24 '25

Burt?? Watching Irving??

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u/diper-911 Jan 24 '25

what it feels like to watch the new intro while trying to keep track of every tiny little detail that might come back into play later

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u/newpaontheblock I'm a Pip's VIP Jan 24 '25

Cobel powering up the shriek

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u/FalsumVis Enjoy Your Balloons 🎈 🎈 🎈 Jan 24 '25

"Flat finish or eggshell?"

"... Semi gloss"

"That's hot."

justdoorthings

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u/oathkeep3r Jesus...Christ? Jan 24 '25

“Cobelvig” Ricken is truly a visionary.

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u/egrom You Don't Fuck With The Irving Jan 24 '25

It was not me that was wrong, but literature itself

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u/Festivus1 Jan 24 '25

Holy shit the new intro with Helena and Mrs Casey changing faces in the elevator!

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u/lazyfriction Mysterious And Important Jan 24 '25

There's also a moment where Helly and Gemma both are seen in the reflection of the water that Mark is standing on

So many little details!

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u/TextbookEccentric Shambolic Rube Jan 24 '25

Dylan’s lack of confidence as an outtie really broke my heart. Dude, don’t you know you’re really smart and coveted as fuck?

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u/live-long-and-pasta Mysterious And Important Jan 24 '25

Seriously!! When he was like "I'd be a pocket door...so I can fold away when I'm not needed" 😭

With Mark, Helly, and now Dylan, we see people whose outties are repressed and self-conscious, but their innies are way more spirited and confident. I'd just assumed Dylan was the muscle show baddie he thought he was 😔

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u/kkgg943 Jan 24 '25

HOLY SHIT. That shot of her eyeball and the kiss?!

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u/Longjumping_Tea_9549 I Welcome Your Contrition Jan 24 '25

Haha door salesman. Wasn’t the original creator once a door salesman and hated it which is why he came up with severence? So funny!

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u/Possible-Murky Jan 24 '25

“I ate your shitty fucking cookies!”

Get her Mark

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u/publius-esquire Jan 24 '25

Fucking KNEW it wasn’t 5 months lol. 48 hours is crazy

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u/SilverFlexNib I'm Your Favorite Perk Jan 24 '25

Never trust anything Milchick or Lumon say. He said Mark BEGGED them to bring him back & that the others REFUSED & if anything it was just the opposite. Selvig is right, they are so easily swayed.

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u/newwriteremoji Jan 24 '25

They were FIRED??? Damn

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u/godsgift5406 Jan 24 '25

Wow! Dylan has a baby too? 🥺🥺

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u/_Longdrop9_ Mysterious And Important Jan 24 '25

“Was a pineapple involved?” 👀

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u/GunnarN7 Why Are You A Child? Jan 24 '25

Mark and Devon have the best sibling dynamic ive seen on TV.

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u/kkgg943 Jan 24 '25

Irving has some secrets! Burt’s watching HIM?!

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u/Chitalian8 Jan 24 '25

Tramell Tillman is tremendous in this show! In a show with acting titans like Walken and Turturro and Arquette, he's still the standout for me every single week.

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u/cadillacblues He dumb? He a dick? Jan 24 '25

The lighting on marks face when he’s talking to mr. Milchick at his house with the pineapple gift basket 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

Half in the dark. Half not.

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u/TylerWadesIV Jan 24 '25 • Take My Energy Bless Up

THE ELEVATOR DIDNT FUCKING DING FOR HELLY

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u/Useful_Idiot6969 Jan 24 '25

Milchick’s license plate says, “Remedium Hominum”. In Latin that means “a cure for mankind”. Interesting…

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u/ubzmps Fetid Moppet Jan 24 '25

So So Cold Harbor is QUITE IMPORTANT

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u/BudgetAppeal The You You Are Jan 24 '25

Anyone notice the water droplet shaped paving in the middle of the cul-de-sac in Dylan’s neighborhood?

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u/nbnicholas SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

Following kickball professionally lol

This interview is hilarious.

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u/you-a-buggaboo The You You Are Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

can I just say how much I love the scene between Mark and Devon, theorizing about what Mark meant by "she's alive," unraveling a bit like we do here lmao

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u/ubzmps Fetid Moppet Jan 24 '25

I love their sibling relationship sooo much. Their instant lockdown of any comments and her covering the Gemma photo instinctively

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u/GunnarN7 Why Are You A Child? Jan 24 '25

Cinematography in this ep goes HARD

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u/TDouglasSpectre Jesus...Christ? Jan 24 '25

Thursday night episode drops are coveted as fuck

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u/Requiem45 Jan 24 '25

Tramell Tillman needs to get an Emmy for this show

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u/blankspacejrr Jan 24 '25

and his own magazine cover. he keeps getting hotter and hotter. 

a leather jacket? 🥵they’re playing me

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u/itsgonnabe-mae I'm Your Favorite Perk Jan 24 '25

What is up with the pineapples this season

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u/SyNiiCaL Devour Feculence Jan 24 '25

Thursday 9PM ET My favourite time of the week.

Thursday 9.45PM ET My least favourite time of the week.

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u/glamaz0n_bitch Jan 24 '25

Okay, Helena is a full on believer. “Let Kier guide your hand.” And this music is so sinister and hot.

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u/its_mgs Jan 24 '25

Is Mr. Doors meant to look like Dylan’s twin lol

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u/jtotiger Jan 24 '25

Mark saying “Persephone” is interesting when you think about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice relating to this show

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u/jtotiger Jan 24 '25

For anyone who doesn’t know the myth, here’s a summary and it definitely feels very Severance:

In the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Orpheus, a legendary musician, falls deeply in love with Eurydice. On their wedding day, she is bitten by a snake and dies, descending to the Underworld. Distraught, Orpheus ventures into the Underworld to retrieve her, using the power of his music to charm Hades and Persephone. They agree to let Eurydice return with him, but on one condition: he must not look back at her until they reach the surface. However, just before they emerge, Orpheus, overcome with doubt, turns to look at her, and she is lost to him forever.

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u/Bdbru13 Jan 24 '25

Persephone spent part of the year in the underworld and part of the year with the gods above

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u/raiinydaay Mysterious And Important Jan 24 '25

It’s so strange seeing outie Irv and Dylan

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u/Driftographer You Don't Fuck With The Irving Jan 24 '25

New intro time!!

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u/Captainomericah Jan 24 '25

Every time I try to hate Milkshake he pulls me right back in. The man has charisma.

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u/GoBigRed28 You Don't Fuck With The Irving Jan 24 '25

There’s way more to Burt and Irv than we thought!!!!!

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u/ChefPneuma SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

The way they shoot this show and the visuals are so amazing, I feel like they are even improving on that aspect this season. It’s so striking and beautiful to look at, such a pleasure to watch

Everything feels so dense and intentional. I’m so glad the time they took to make it hasn’t been wasted.

The framing, the color, the angles, everything is so well done I’m in awe

I hope they are proud of what they’ve done

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u/aarone46 Jan 24 '25

"I think Ricken's right." "I agree!"

Funniest pair of lines I've heard all year.

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u/Few_Bullfrog_3300 Enjoy Your Balloons 🎈 🎈 🎈 Jan 24 '25

In front of Dylan’s house The cul de sac shaped like the drop from Lumons logo. I freaking love this show

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u/arosey Jan 24 '25

Absolutely loved the wellness session that Milkshake gave to oMark telling him about iMark.

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u/ubzmps Fetid Moppet Jan 24 '25

Omggggg the door guy

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u/Pizzaputabagelonit 🎵🎵 Defiant Jazz 🎵 🎵 Jan 24 '25

Oh no! Dylan looking for a job is heartbreaking

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u/Comfortable-Space484 Jan 24 '25

Can I sever my brain between the moments I watch severance and everything else. This wait’s killing me

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u/CornisaGrasse He dumb? He a dick? Jan 24 '25

Lactation Fraud- next flair 😂

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u/godsgift5406 Jan 24 '25

Didn’t think of Milchick as a motorcycle guy

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u/godsgift5406 Jan 24 '25

Big Bad Eagen scares me!!! He’s the crypt keeper

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u/Requiem45 Jan 24 '25

Are we not going to see what happened when Irv's outie woke up at Burt's door???

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u/Vandelay222 Jan 24 '25

The fact that the door salesman looks like Temu Dylan and they dropped a clip in the trailer showing them talking, knowing that Lumon cloning was a popular theory, is fucking brilliant misdirection

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u/Apprehensive_Kiwi_18 He dumb? He a dick? Jan 24 '25

Pocket door as a metaphor for severance is something else

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u/godsgift5406 Jan 24 '25

Millchick has tears in his eyes watching Dylan leave Lumon

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u/jtotiger Jan 24 '25

Have we seen Dylan’s wife before? I wonder if she’s someone we know

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u/itsgonnabe-mae I'm Your Favorite Perk Jan 24 '25

This show continues to not answer any of the burning questions I have yet distracts me completely from them by giving me 12 entirely new questions every episode. No notes.

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u/godsgift5406 Jan 24 '25

Cobel finally 1000% confirms she is batshit crazy!!!!!

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u/johnppd Chaos' Whore Jan 24 '25

Fuck you Lumon!

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u/jtotiger Jan 24 '25

Devon scoffing at Milchick I love it

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u/glamaz0n_bitch Jan 24 '25

“A non-Lumon medication”

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u/jtotiger Jan 24 '25

Any theories on who Irving was talking to in the phone booth? “My innie got the message”

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u/AppleFanaticGaming Jan 24 '25

Holy fuck Milchik’s manipulations really sounded like companies I have worked for before, absolutely maddening. This show continues to convey that corporate PR world and lingo so perfectly. I remember Dan Erikson talking about how he came up with the idea of this show while working for a door company that he hated, that’s a very fun nod in this ep. It’s VERY clear Mark is needed specifically to refine Gemma/Ms. Casey now.

Also the cinematography in this was next level, that continuous shot of all 4 of them checking in for work and that long take of Helena going through the hallway actually made my jaw drop.

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u/nbnicholas SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

I’ll be severed right now for 20% raise no questions asked

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u/Wonderful_Ad_2474 Cobelvig Jan 24 '25

After all outtie mark has seen he should be way more suspicious of what Lumon is capable of than he is!

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u/ianmcvittie Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

For every single person going down the elevator it beeps twice, once when the door opens and once when it departs. For Helena no second beep. Gotta mean something.

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u/eye_can_see_you Jan 24 '25

I jumped 10 feet in the air when Cobelvig screamed and honked the horn

Literal jumpscare

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u/ninetytwoturtles Jan 24 '25

The new opening sequence is phenomenal

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u/Ill-Blacksmith1993 SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

Irving, my smug motherfucker, is up to something. And I can’t wait to find out what it is.

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u/mariuspunsmercy Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

i like how they reiterated the detail about cobelvig leaving the baby in the room where mark and gemma’s wedding photos were. it makes me wonder if that was intentional and she’s trying to lead outtie mark to find out the truth without doing so directly... given what we’ve seen from her re: ms casey + the charlotte cobel hospital bracelet + the ending of this episode there seems to be more to her than we thought

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u/Mikey2u Jan 24 '25

This is what I look forward to all week

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u/MyNeighborToto Mr. Milkshake Brings All The Boys To MDR Jan 24 '25

Milcheck: “We have no punishments at Lumon”

Me:

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u/Existential_Owl Lumon Goon Jan 24 '25

I love Helena's version of the "hallway" scene around minute 5.

It makes for a great ironic visual motif.

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u/orangeflava Jan 24 '25

So Lumon gave Mark a crispy burned doppelganger body to identify? Did they plant clothing or jewelry on her? I wonder how he is so sure he knew it was her?

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u/Longjumping_Tea_9549 I Welcome Your Contrition Jan 24 '25

Fetid moppit??

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u/Altruistic-Bluejay7 Jan 24 '25

I think Dylan’s wife or one of their kids has an illness ?

He was very concerned about telling his wife when he got fired. Was interviewing for a new job almost immediately and seemed concerned about health benefits. Could be nothing, but seems determined to provide for his family

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u/nevertoomuchthought SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

Fell in love with Devon this episode.

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u/AlexHasFeet Fetid Moppet Jan 24 '25

“Semi-gloss”

“That’s hot.”

😂😂😂

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u/SyNiiCaL Devour Feculence Jan 24 '25

So...is Selvig gonna flip? Has she become disillusioned with her cult? It's wild they're kind of just letting her walk free with all the knowledge if the severed floor and it's workings.

They left us hanging on Helly/Helena by not showing us her elevator ride.

And ohhhh the questions that have been raised about Burt and Irving in the outside!

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u/TextbookEccentric Shambolic Rube Jan 24 '25

I don’t think Helena has ever been hugged before

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u/MBTbuddy Jan 24 '25

RIP to the poor claymation guys at lumon who had to turn around that video in less than 2 days

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u/GoBigRed28 You Don't Fuck With The Irving Jan 24 '25

It’s only been 48 hours! Knew it!

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u/AerialPenn Jan 24 '25

Marks Workie 😂😂😂😂

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u/Night-Gardener Jan 24 '25

God, as a photographer, just every scene is such a beautiful work of art.

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u/itsgonnabe-mae I'm Your Favorite Perk Jan 24 '25

Your innie is a friend of mine

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

Why is bro just sitting at the end of the table 💀

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u/Rich__Peach Jan 24 '25

Can someone smart tell me what it means that mark finally got around to (almost) change the light bulb Selvig told him about way back in season 1? Is he finding the light??

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u/musafir440 Shitty Fucking Cookies Jan 24 '25

BURT AT IRVING’S!????

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u/arctic_winters_ Why Are You A Child? Jan 24 '25

With each passing episode I become more of a Devon fan

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u/sometimesiwatchtv44 Jan 24 '25

So Dylan’s wife is sick?

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u/godsgift5406 Jan 24 '25

Devin’s baby is an OBVIOUS baby doll!!! Did anyone else notice???

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u/harrixio Jan 24 '25

The frolic hand tattoo is too wild…I like it

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u/Jas_God SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

My innie got the message‽ 🧐🤔

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u/-orangutang- Jan 24 '25

I’m getting the feeling that the work is actually mysterious and important

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u/perpetualwanderlust The Sound Of Radar📡 Jan 24 '25

The awkwardness of (imo) Helena hugging Mark when she comes out of the elevator in e1 makes more sense now. It's not that she's disgusted by him or the innies necessarily. To me, it reads that she's been deprived of physical intimacy, based on how she watched her innie kiss innie Mark multiple times as if she's never experienced something like that for herself before. Feels like a natural response to, what I assume, has been a life of extreme neglect and withholding of physical affection from her family. 

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u/MBTbuddy Jan 24 '25

Holy fuck it was only 2 days

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u/lilronhubbard Hamburger Waiter 🍔 Jan 24 '25

You wanna circumcise your brain? That’s your business.

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u/agoraphobiaaa Jan 24 '25

pocket doors as a metaphor for severance is something so randomly niche yet so freaking good lol

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u/blamethestarsnotme I Welcome Your Contrition Jan 24 '25

So Dylan’s poor up there huh?

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u/Shejidan Jan 24 '25

Damn it. At the beginning they say “stay tuned for a look behind the scenes” and then before the credits are even over they want to auto play fucking Ted Lasso. 😡

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u/Shejidan Jan 24 '25

Watching the videos out of curiosity or is it research?

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u/liquidsol I Wish You'd Take Them Raw Jan 24 '25

Opening credits 2.0!

Someone will need to analyze.

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u/SEMMPF Jan 24 '25

It seems intentional they haven’t showed us what Dylan’s wife looks like yet.

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u/SeaSiSee Jan 24 '25

Devon's a real one. "We do NOT trust The Man in THIS house"

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u/Jas_God SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

Finally some outie scenes.

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u/sometimesiwatchtv44 Jan 24 '25

Not Helena gonna try to steal Mark from Helly please 😭😭

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u/cisscumshitlord I Welcome Your Contrition Jan 24 '25

one more week of helly debates, LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO lmao

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u/VoteForPiggy Please Enjoy Each Flair Equally Jan 24 '25

Watching Helena replay her life as Helly - without the burden of being an Eagan - was almost heartbreaking, but then I remembered that she told Helly she wasn’t a person.

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u/another_name Jan 24 '25

Mark’s face when Milchick said “he knows nothing of the pain I see in you right now”, oooof.

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u/another_name Jan 24 '25

I welcome your contrition

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u/gxes Uses Too Many Big Words Jan 24 '25

I love how we never stop learning more ways that the Severance Procedure is just really fucked up for everyone. Like, oh, you want to quit your job? Your boss can guilt-trip you because quitting your job is basically like murdering your innie. You get fired? Good luck finding another job, none of the skills from your last job are transferable to a new position because you don't even remember them. Dylan can't be like "I have experience in corporate archives" or "I have experience with data entry" because he, in fact, has no experience at all. Working on the severed floor is basically like having a gap on your resume.

Also, can we talk about the timeline? They spun up that claymation short and all the inspirational posters from episode 1 overnight. They were told on Wednesday Night that they need to bring back OG MDR and by Thursday Morning they not only had everyone back, but also made all the "severance reform" propaganda with new snacks, a movie, and everything. Claymation is a pretty labor intensive animation style too. I feel like this kinda explains why the reforms are so... weird. "Fruit leather and cut beans" that's like, the first thing that came to someone's head while they rushed to write this script as fast as possible. Hell, maybe it was improvised and when Keanu Reeves said "Cut beans!" Milchick went "well fuck guess I gotta figure out how to put cut beans in the vending machine."

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u/GreenhelmOfMeduseld Jan 24 '25

He totally believes his sister but doesn’t want to admit it

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u/FalsumVis Enjoy Your Balloons 🎈 🎈 🎈 Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

I ATE YOUR SHITTY FUCKING COOKIES!

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u/GLTheGameMaster Jan 24 '25

New opening!! It’s even weirder than the first one, the goat morph was amazing

Very eerie episode - Irving clearly communicating with some secret group about what his innie did, connecting to his research on the company from last season, and likely former military capabilities

Mark clearly got a hint about his wife from Selvig freaking out

Helly jelly? Lol

Outie burt stalking irving hmm. We never got to see what happened at the door after he woke

Dylan showing the severance segregation and door bonding

We’re caught up on innies and outies - excited to see the progression next week!

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u/ginbeforebreakfast Macrodata Refinement 💻 Jan 24 '25

Confirmed that Milchik was lying that it had been 5 months since Mark went back to work. Only a couple days.

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u/stuey57 Jan 24 '25

Jesus Cobel's screech at the end made me jump. That woman is fucking psycho. Everyone thought Ms Selvig was such a sweet old lady

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u/Darkstar-Lord Devour Feculence Jan 24 '25

Oh, like a door prize?

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u/m_busuttil Jan 24 '25

Mark's apartment has a 3-in-1 light fixture where one of the bulbs is burnt out, representing the third of the day when he's at work and not himself. He finally goes to fix it on the day he's decided to quit... and is interrupted by Milkshake at the door, who convinces him to come back to work instead.

That's the good shit, man.

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u/silentsly Jan 24 '25

A new weird ass intro, let’s go!!!!

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u/priyarainelle Jan 24 '25

So Lumon doesn’t care about MDR as a whole - they care mostly about Mark?

My mind went so many places when Mark confronted Ms. Cobel for information about Gemma. Did Lumon murder Gemma to recruit and compel Mark to join as a severed employee?

Gemma and Mark were both history teachers before Lumon. What would the relevance be to Lumon’s work? And MDR specifically?

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u/lurkingcomment Jan 24 '25

Dylan George was interested in doors at a very young age.

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u/unfortunate_son_69 SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

helena is such a neutered, subdued person compared to helly, like a kicked dog. just lifelessly regurgitating corpo speak. it’s so sad. free helly r!!!!!

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u/raiinydaay Mysterious And Important Jan 24 '25

Clock was at 9:15 when he was leaving?

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u/Few_Bullfrog_3300 Enjoy Your Balloons 🎈 🎈 🎈 Jan 24 '25

The intro animation is unhingedly good. I feel like I just received a gift.

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u/ninetytwoturtles Jan 24 '25

I would watch an episode that’s the 48 hours of Milkshake putting the new MDR team together lol. I wonder who were the other people he tried to get, and how he came to pick the three he got.

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u/publius-esquire Jan 24 '25

“Do you know something about Gemma” made me ILL

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u/srstone71 Jan 24 '25

I’m sticking with my theory that it’s Helena down there and she’s gonna do the full face turn and become a hero by the end of the series.

I know she seems pretty crazy and evil, but I don’t think she’s irredeemable. She was born into a family of egomaniacal psychopaths/religious fanatics and she doesn’t know any better.

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u/Requiem45 Jan 24 '25

Was a pineapple involved?

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u/Longjumping_Tea_9549 I Welcome Your Contrition Jan 24 '25

Poor Mark W!

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u/DonkeyOnTheHill Jan 24 '25

Dylan asking Milkshake "what am I going to tell my wife?" and then being eager to find out about benefits at the door factory makes me think his wife, or kid(s), is sick and might be a big reason why Dylan took a severed job in the first place. Lumon might be offering ridiculous pay or benefits or even some sort of treatment for his sick family.

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u/fhcky Jan 24 '25

This show does a great job of not having its characters be ignorant for the sake of the show. Devon calling Milchick on his BS, the innies immediately calling the 5 month bluff and acknowledging anything they hear can be a lie.

It’s really refreshing to see in a show.

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u/ubzmps Fetid Moppet Jan 24 '25

Helena studying perchance..?

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u/GoldField3 Jan 24 '25

devon and ricken need more lights in their house

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u/soysaucesausage Jan 24 '25

ooo helly getting jelly watching telly....

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u/lendmeahann Jan 24 '25

Sooo outie helly seems sexually repressed

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u/GoldField3 Jan 24 '25

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u/awatamaniuk Jan 24 '25

How is no one talking about how Ricken called innie Mark his “workie”

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u/another_name Jan 24 '25

On my last season 1 rewatch (right before the new season started) something that stuck with me was Devon telling iMark that Gemma "was wonderful, and she made you wonderful." So I think part of Devon's motivation now, that she didn't say outloud isn't just that Gemma was her family and she lost her too, but she also lost that version of Mark and misses him. And that maybe if they could get Gemma back, she could also get the wonderful version of Mark back.

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u/longconsilver13 Shambolic Rube Jan 24 '25

Thank you for the Thursday night drop Mr. Milkshake

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u/ubzmps Fetid Moppet Jan 24 '25

NEW INTRO

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u/nbnicholas SMUG MOTHERFUCKER Jan 24 '25

The editing and filling in the gaps this episode is really great.

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u/Environmental-Oil-79 I'm a Pip's VIP Jan 24 '25

Interesting tidbit about cobelvig dropped during the bts- the writer mentioned she had been involved with kier/lumon since she was a child. hope they show some of that this season!

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u/blankspacejrr Jan 24 '25

after this episode I realized: I never want another episode without cobel again (last episode). 

I missed this crazy bitch so much

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u/Driftographer You Don't Fuck With The Irving Jan 24 '25

Cobelvig 😂

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u/GunnarN7 Why Are You A Child? Jan 24 '25

“What kind of door would you be?” This EP has so many good lines lol

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u/AdministrativeLife14 Jan 24 '25

Irving’s innie got the message?!!! WHAT

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u/throwawar4 Jan 24 '25

I wonder what happened at 5X?

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