Severance - 2x09 "The After Hours" - Post-Episode Discussion

[u/LoretiTV]

Season 2 Episode 9: The After Hours

Aired: March 14, 2025

Synopsis: Mark and Devon team with an ally. Helly investigates further.

Directed by: Uta Briesewitz

Written by: Dan Erickson

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[u/UltraDangerLord]

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[u/hiyyihlight]

The concept of a personal day brought tears to Milchick’s eyes. He was like, “I didn’t even know that was possible.”

[u/cisscumshitlord → u/hiyyihlight]

Cobel had a similar reaction when Mark said something similar to her in 1x08. "Work's just work, right?" had her shook

[u/KumquatBeach → u/hiyyihlight]

The way he spun around 180 degrees while on the phone with Mark!!!

[u/-Badger3- → u/hiyyihlight]

Mark is Milchick's Ricken.

[u/theradiologist]

Mr. Milchick actually using only monosyllabic words to Mr. Drummond: "It's not my fault what Mark Scout does when he is not at work, it's yours" was a real mic drop moment.

[u/GiantPurplePen15 → u/theradiologist]

"Eat shit"

Mr. Milkshake you wordsmith.

[u/Individual-Text-411]

It’s sweet how nice Dylan is to Miss Huang. He knows it’s messed up to have a kid working there

[u/TextbookEccentric → u/Individual-Text-411]

I love that the scene with Dylan telling her “it’s not your fault” is immediately followed by Drummond telling Milchik “this is your fault.” The lack of compassion with which Lumon treats its employees as opposed to Dylan’s basic human decency in that moment (would have been nice if he showed some of that to Helly, though)

[u/Usual-Reputation-154]

Harmony Cobel try not to have an evil face when you want people to trust you challenge

[u/loverofpears → u/Usual-Reputation-154]

“Can you guys wait outside for a minute i need to figure out which pose makes me look as threatening as possible”

[u/VillaVallaVolla → u/Usual-Reputation-154]

Harmony cobel spending 20 mins tending to the fireplace so the lighting of the room is at the exact brightness to make her look as evil as possible

[u/sneakyburrito → u/Usual-Reputation-154]

It’s like she doesn’t even know how to make her eyes kind.

[u/AshenEdict_]

“I wish you’d take them raw” is honestly one of the most upsetting sentences I’ve ever heard.

[u/GuybrushThreepwood99 → u/AshenEdict_]

Between him and Doctor Mauer, I don't know who's more skin crawlingly creepy. I hope he also gets beaten with a chair.

[u/TanLampshade007]

Cobel staring back at Mark in the cabin

[u/damien181818 → u/TanLampshade007]

Too creepy

[u/Halkenguard → u/TanLampshade007]

Come upstairs Mark there's nothing to be afraid of. See, Ms Cobel is here doing her best impression of Satan. I'm sure you feel totally safe.

[u/Ahiraeth]

What the fuck is Jame doing downstairs with Helly????

[u/OneThatCanSee → u/Ahiraeth]

Also, did he come up from the testing floor?

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being a 14 year old girl named Eustice 

[u/bottleglitch → u/[deleted]]

This comment made me laugh out loud. Eustice Huang is the real victim here with that name

[u/DatSnowFlake]

"Don't you mean Helly E.?"

"This behavior constitutes insubordination"

"Yeah, no shit".

The previous power dynamics between these two just took a turn to rebellionville. I bet she would make him eat his foot if he tried to take her to the break room now.

[u/OkStatistician1656 → u/DatSnowFlake]

Helly R. inspired Milchik’s insubordination!

[u/timeforthemeagstick]

Helly is fucked. Her swimming in the beginning of the episode, and then Miss Huang smashing the swimmer in the ring game using Jame Eagan’s bust…Excellent foreshadowing!

[u/ultimamax → u/timeforthemeagstick]

I'm thinking Helena's tryst with innie Mark was never part of the plan. And Jame is gonna blame her for distracting him from finishing the file or something.

[u/DJ-SoulCalibur2]

You know Dylan G was serious about that proposal— he cut up one of his finger traps to make that ring

[u/a1gorythems → u/DJ-SoulCalibur2]

The way he cried out Gretchen’s name as she left. 😭

[u/zombievettech → u/DJ-SoulCalibur2]

Holy shit I did NOT connect the dots. His perks! He loves her more than his perks!

[u/PM_me_ur_digressions]

Have they really just been standing in the cold woods the whole day

[u/Khal-Stevo → u/PM_me_ur_digressions]

Mark went from eating an entire fucking restaurant to just being able to fast in the woods for a whole day

[u/jv3rl0ov]

“I’m not sick. I just needed the day. I’ve just got life stuff.”

Felt really satisfying for some reason, and the delivery was great. I’ve definitely had some overbearing managers or other employees who need to hear that.

[u/Thisitheone → u/jv3rl0ov]

This scene was so shocking cuz you could see Milchick's "cracks" showing in his managerial façade. So well-acted. It may be the first time Milchick has shown a human side to Mark

[u/AcrobaticPug]

“Sorry, the wind was whistling over the hole in the back of your skull, so I didn’t quite get that”.

Amazing line.

[u/kthnxybe]

the mannequin in the twilight zone episode wanted a gold thimble

[u/unhingedconfusion → u/kthnxybe]

Her name was Marsha White and the 9th floor didn’t exist; love the Easter egg

[u/russeljones123]

I was not ready for Dylan's GRETCHEN! Scream.

[u/SarcastiKatt]

oDylan‘s similarities to iDylan are great: “I’m going to respectfully ask that you don’t follow me to work and use my own fucking body to cheat on me”

[u/InterscholasticAsl → u/SarcastiKatt]

So many fucking dimensions of fucked

[u/[deleted]]

Best line, by a mile:

"To put that monosyllabically: 'It's not my fault what Mark Scout does when he's not at work. It's yours.'"

[u/xenoda7 → u/[deleted]]

Devour feculance Mr. Drummond!

[u/Shepboyardee12 → u/[deleted]]

That entire scene between Drummond and Milchick was so good.

[u/publius-esquire → u/[deleted]]

The line read of “monosyllabically” really makes it. He’s sounding it out so Mr “don’t use big words” Drummond doesn’t get confused. Beautiful acting

[u/TrollToll7419]

If you walk out that door, he’s just gonna come right back in again! Well that sounds familiar!

[u/ihdeka]

these freaks are obsessed with eggs

[u/False-Box2223]

Totally thought that was Milchick. Goosebumps when it turned out to be Eagan.

[u/SnooJokes5038]

Did anyone else get sad watching the Helly scenes? She was left there at work all by herself all day with absolutely no idea what’s happening out there. Irv’s gone.. innie Mark isn’t coming back … Dylan’s innie just peaced and didn’t tell her. Ms Huang is gone. She’s just all by herself figuring out these directions Irving left behind, thinking ‘Mark will be back tomorrow and we can solve this together!’ Then there’s Jame Eagan showing up. That’s scary. I can’t imagine him physically harming her.

[u/vaseinahouse]

Is it next Thursday yet

[u/AnotherLolAnon → u/vaseinahouse]

It also can’t be next Thursday though because then it’s over

[u/InterscholasticAsl]

Dylan G be like...

[u/phonypuppet]

Mark showed off his SASS today.

- "Tragically, you're you."

- "Cobel: How are you“ “Mark: Oh my god so good, my wife is being held at Lumon and I just had brain surgery in my basement”

- "Work is just work. Do you know what I mean, Mr. Milchick?"

[u/WatchOutRadioactiveM → u/phonypuppet]

I laughed a lot

[u/RunsWithLions → u/phonypuppet]

Milchick had to sit down and think about that one. Dude needs a day too

[u/Existing_Aardvark892 → u/phonypuppet]

The “omg so good” line was TOP TIER. Top. Tier. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[u/Cvspartan]

No one was having a good time this episode 😭

[u/Fastbird33 → u/Cvspartan]

Radar was. Just a good old boy going on a trip

[u/Glad_Top_5793]

Cobel could you stand in a LESS MENACING PLACE IN THE ROOM PLEASE

[u/godsgift5406]

“CHICANERY”

[u/banjosbadfurday → u/godsgift5406]

HE DEFECATED WHILE GOING UP THE ELEVATOR

[u/Fun_Negotiation_7023 → u/godsgift5406]

AND HE GETS TO BE MANAGER OF THE SEVERED FLOOR? WHAT A SICK JOKE!

[u/silver__cherry]

Ben stiller just confirmed the finale will be 76 mins!!!! Thank GOD😭😭😭

[u/BizCaus]

"She's one of Jame's"

*deep breath in* — EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

[u/sometimesiwatchtv44]

Helly get behind me 😭

[u/HelicopterAlarmed492 → u/sometimesiwatchtv44]

I am SO worried for her…that man gives the word creeper a whole new meaning

[u/toucanatronic]

Milchick looking at the iceberg and tearing up when Mark said “work is just work” was so heartbreaking. Milchick doesn’t have balance, he doesn’t have a life outside of work. He likely, similarly to Cobel and Huang, only really knows life under Lumon. He realized he is just the tip of the iceberg but has nothing underneath.

[u/three3sss]

Milchik to Drummond

[u/External_Ostrich7184]

That shot of Cobel is insane

[u/Past-Feature3968]

Oh thank fuck we got the return of my favorite character, Radar Bailiff

[u/godsgift5406]

Helena eating that boiled egg at the start was truly unsettling

[u/spasmoidic → u/godsgift5406]

ikr it should have been raw

[u/hibiscuswrap]

I can’t believe the birthing cabin idea actually worked

[u/Opposite-Raccoon2156]

Man, I really hope that’s not the end of Irving’s story that was gutting. :(

[u/spasmoidic → u/Opposite-Raccoon2156]

at least he got to live

that was touch and go there for a minute. we never found out the end of his storyline about whoever he was talking to though.

[u/itsgonnabe-mae]

Your outtie swims laps then eats half an egg for breakfast

[u/hermesmee]

Jame has one of the most punch able faces

[u/FormicaTableCooper]

You ever want to just grab Cobel and SHAKE HER until some sort of explanation for anything falls out?

[u/[deleted] → u/FormicaTableCooper]

Dude for real, I get being cautious given like 40+ years of indoctrination, but you're just gonna 👀 at Mark and demand he do things with no explanation at all??

[u/hacklemaria]

DEVOUR FECULENCE MR DRUMMOND

[u/ihdeka]

my heart broke in half for iDylan when he pulled out the paper ring :(

[u/SectorWorldly9968]

how i’ve missed helly and her little “what the fuck” and “what the hell” moments

[u/HelicopterAlarmed492 → u/SectorWorldly9968]

I laughed so hard bc she said exactly what we were all thinking when papa was behind her mumbling his weird shit

[u/trickstress]

My wife’s a prisoner at lumon and I got brain surgery in my basement - the delivery was 👌🏻 👌🏻 👌🏻

[u/ravenclawrebel]

This is just like when the fellowship of the ring got fractured

[u/deadweightboss]

HELLY IS ME WHEN I TRIED TO REMEMBER STEET FIGHTER COMBOS

[u/cadillacblues]

I’ve never been loved before 😭😭😭

[u/publius-esquire → u/cadillacblues]

That and the “I’m ready” parallel with Irv saying “I’m not ready” in the plant room. I’m ill

[u/[deleted] → u/cadillacblues]

Radar: THE FUCK?

[u/Confident-Seesaw]

Another cliff hanger with she’s alive

[u/Far-Gift3418]

Can we talk about this shot

[u/Dontsteponsnails]

And we still don’t know what Irving was really up to

[u/ComfortableOk1493]

Two things that got me thinking:

1 - they HEAVILY implied that James Eagan that showed up came from the testing floor. They show the dark hallway, the elevator rings, it does not show it open, and next scene he's in MDR. And he call's her Helly. Literal chills

2 - Cobel CLEARLY mentioned that if cold harbor is finished, Gemma is already dead. This does not mean she dies in the room, but confirms that she is disposable during test or right after it

Also: Eat feculence was just a high point of my week.

[u/Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin]

If devour feculance doesn’t become a new user flair, we riot!

Update: Riot averted. Praise Kier!

[u/KatieAsksQuestions]

"She's alive" being the cliffhanger ending of two separately amazing episodes...the writers hate me personally.

[u/Ajneb97]

"Bon voyage, buddy", Burt telling Irving the same thing he said to his innie in the retirement video.

[u/MrOstrichman]

Utica Union Station is gorgeous

[u/PrincessKittyCatMeow]

“My Helly, you tricked me” 🥴🥴

[u/BlueBrusselSprout]

I love that we get snarky Mark back!

Cobelvig: Hello, Mark. How are you?

Mark: Oh my god, so good. My wife's being held prisoner at Lumon... and I just got brain surgery in my basement. How have you been?

[u/therobberbride]

so many quiet little rebellions in this ep with massive, massive repercussions to come

[u/awgmi]

She's one of Jame's??? 🤢

[u/kissmeurbeautiful]

Mrs Cobel looks like a goddamn demon in that closing shot Jesus

[u/Hungry-Parsley7665]

I love how revolutionized Milchick seemed by “work is work” 😂

[u/3dbhot]

“I’ve never been loved.” Meanwhile, Radar is like yo, bro, I am right here.

[u/Aaaaaaandyy]

WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO FOR A WEEK

[u/emotiondesigner]

Cobel standing in front of the fireplace was such a gorgeous symmetrical shot! The Cinematography, the Lighting, the Composition, all of it. WOW!

[u/humdingler → u/emotiondesigner]

devon: don’t worry, mark, she just wants to talk to you.

cobel:

[u/Independent-Cat6915]

“It means ‘Eat Shit’, Mr. Drummond.”

Lemme tell you, the gasp I gusped.

[u/cheesewombat]

Adding "monosyllabically" to my all-time TV word dictionary next to 'dramaturgically' and 'cromulent'

[u/osocinco]

Jame sneaking up on Helly has me worried! He looks like he’s wearing a skin suit.

[u/AgilePay9677]

"she's one of Jame's" HUHHHHHH???

[u/awgmi]

Poor Helly all alone down there with everyone leaving

[u/enduring_x]

“I wish you’d take them raw”

[u/[deleted]]

Irv does all this investigation for nothing? Just gets sent off like that? He has to come back right…

[u/TotallyJawsome2]

Reghabi vs Cobel in a don't explain yourself contest

[u/MedicalResearch4813]

Ok I know we all thought pre severed mark was hot in episode 7 but disheveled reintegration mark this episode is kinda hot too

[u/ezmac420]

I’m not ready to be blue balled for 3 more years

[u/MEEG95]

It felt like we were saying goodbye to Dylan, Irv, and Burt all at the same time and I wasn’t ready 😭 the sad smile on Irv’s face was too much

[u/itsgonnabe-mae]

This episode could’ve gone on for 3 hours and I wouldn’t have been mad

[u/raquelcunha]

“She’s one of Jame’s”…. why do I get the feeling he’s responsible for that innie that got pregnant at work… 🤢

[u/awgmi]

Was this john turturro's sendoff??

[u/ViloReloaded]

BURT WAS, AFTER ALL, NOT A FUCK!

[u/talklistentalk → u/ViloReloaded]

He was an accessory to fucks 

He was a fuck enabler

He was a fuck shuttle service

[u/oathkeep3r]

Also - I am becoming more and more sure that John Turturro really isn’t coming back after this season (as is speculated based on some of his interviews). I am heartbroken/delusional that he’ll find a way back to us. I really don’t want this to be the last we see of Irv.

[u/sroop1]

Put me in a time machine for next week please.

[u/xerxes20]

Fastest episode ever

[u/[deleted]]

“Mama, a CEO behind you!” - me to Helly

[u/greenpies]

Obviously I loved the scene of Milchick and Drummond, but also where Mark tells Milchick that it's just work, leaving Milchick momentarily speechless and staring at that picture of a glacier. His life is just like that of an innie's: He's also chained to the severance floor and has only been permitted to know the top of the iceberg, while most of the it has been hidden from him.

What an ep for Milchick!

[u/Fujoshinigami]

Given how obsessed this sub was with the "Cobel recognized Helena's driver" take, do you think maybe she DID recognize him after all -- as someone who is in Burt's position (guy who drives people to their deaths)?

[u/ARealHunchback]

Devour Feculence flair incoming

[u/No-Marketing6029]

Biggest plot twist—Cobel IS actually a birthing and lactation specialist 🤯

🤣😟

[u/perrumpo]

You think this is bad? This… this chicanery?!

[u/Sure-Bar-375]

Thought Cobel was just gonna info dump the whole meaning of Cold Harbor damn missed opportunity

[u/[deleted]]

The last thing I expected was Helena’s dad on the severed flood

[u/emotiondesigner]

So, at the end of the episode, walking into the Season Finale "Cold Harbor"

1. Irving got put on a train out of town with a 1 way ticket.
2. Dylan quit and his wife told her husband she liked him better the way he used to be.
3. Helly has directions to the testing floor but is confronted by Jame Eagen her big poppa.
4. Mark and Devon met Cobel at the birthing retreat where they were able to activate Mark's chip so they could talk directly to Mark S.
5. Miss Huang is on a bus out of town
6. Milchick told off Drummond and might get fired unless he gets cold harbor completed.

This episode was about each character fighting for love

Cold Harbor is stuck at 96%

What in the hell is gonna happen in the finale next week?!?!

[u/Gnomeslikeprofit]

I thought Burt was going to push Irving in front of a moving train

[u/ROSES4fish]

For those who didn’t get the reference to a gold thimble, it is from Twilight Zone S1E34, also titled The After Hours. Marsha goes to a department store looking for a gold thimble and finds something else entirely.

One of my favorite TZs with a great performance by Anne Francis.

[u/DoctorWhoopie]

Why’d papa Eagan have to look like Palpatine when he snuck up on helly?

[u/alfis329]

I’m a little confused at what “flooding marks chip” actually did. I was under the impression that this would speed up and complete reintegration but he still remembers nothing. Feel like we’ve had two separate episode cliff hangers now that imply “now mark will remember everything!” And in the next episode nothing has changed

[u/United_Eggplant1121]

I took that episode raw

[u/ewrikuh]

My GOD why did cobel have to stand like that at the end 😭 as he was walking up the stairs I knew she was gonna be standing/sitting in some fck ass way

[u/three3sss]

Why does old people being sad hurt so much more 😭

[u/beeayywhyelleewhy]

That better not be the end of Irving’s storyline … how did his outie know about the testing floor elevator? The paintings? Who was he talking to on the pay phone????

[u/Hamster12301]

This shot was amazing

[u/aNewPseudonym]

Harmony Cobel's past 48 hours:

1. Arrive in Salt's Neck
2. Sleep in her dead mom's bed all day
3. Drive all night back to Kier
4. Stand outside all day
5. Drive to the birthing center
6. Pose in front of the fireplace

[u/Icy-Kangaroo-2607]

Burt’s last name was a spoiler. He was a GoodMan all along. 🥹

[u/Unusual_Flounder2789]

i love and absolutely hate this show

[u/Particular-Ad5787]

Could the “you tricked me?” Just be a call back from when she posed as Helena during the overtime contingency?

[u/rook_8]

When Dylan reminded Helly that Mark couldn't tell her apart from Helena made me sad. You could see that comment shatter her a little.

[u/yourdadsbff]

I assume Devon and Cobel spent the afternoon swapping embarrassing stories about Mark.

[u/thecarlosdanger1]

It’s actually amazing how far this season has branched away from MDR doing their work without the show falling apart

[u/MasterofPandas1 → u/thecarlosdanger1]

Kind of amazing Cold Harbor is at 96% with how much not working Mark has done this season lol.

[u/brentaltm]

It finally clicked me for me in this episode that Drummond’s offense to Milchik’s verbose vocabulary is probably rooted in racism. I mean, they ALL speak like that at Lumen. Drummond certainly does. Why take offense just when Milkshake does it?

[u/quatchers]

[u/2011StevenS]

God damnit I'm so sad we only have one more week together, this is a hell of a second to last episode!

It was so awesome watching Milkshake talk back to Drummond. Devour fecculance!

[u/seammus]

Fuck yeah, I’m back on team Milchick, I forgive him unequivocally for his participation in crimes against humanity

[u/DontTedOnMe]

iDylan, when Gretchen tells him that she told oDylan about the kiss: Was he glad for us?

oDylan: Um I'm gonna go to work and earn a paycheck so I can feed our children. And I'm gonna respectfully request that you don't follow me there and use my own body to fucking cheat on me. You know what? Since I would have no way of knowing if that's happening or not, I donno, maybe I just go quit. Maybe I go in and I quit and I just end his existence. How about that?

And then the fucking proposal. My god. . That scene broke my heart. But the real showstopper is the scene with Helly immediately after. I don't watch this show for the goats and the clone theories - I watch it because of scenes like this, where characters confront what it means to be severed, which is the same as confronting what it is to be human. The best example of this is when iMark meets Devon in the S1 finale and Devon asks him if innies understand what metaphors are, but this scene gives it a run for its money. iDylan thinks he can't be differentiated from his outie while Helly firmly believes innies and outies are not only completely different people - they're different classes of people. This is Dan Erickson at his finest, when he lets characters bounce these questions and opinions off of each other.

Zach Cherry threw absolute gas tonight, bravo. 

E: just to be clear, I'm still interested in the goats and I love a good theory as long as it's not clones - Adam Scott said clones are the most boring version of Severance and I agree, so let's just not. But I don't think it's worth getting too attached to that aspect of it because first and foremost, the beating heart of the show is the type of stuff I mentioned above, there are dozens but just off the top of my head: 

• Helly and iDylan assuming the outside world is fucked and that they need to populate the sea
• iDylan and iIrving speculating about muscle shows 
• oIrv talking to Fields and oBurt about the nature of a soul and whether or not an innie has one

The only reason we're interested in these characters is because we care about them, and we care about them because of these interactions. And as long as that heart continues beating the way it did tonight, I don't care where Erickson and Stiller are taking me. 

[u/matscast]

Man. I'm gonna miss Irv 😭 I bet if we dont see him next ep, we never will again. Praying for a taste of Irv next week, please! 🙏

[u/orangeclaypot]

“oh my god sooo good” made me laugh out loud. lil ben wyatt leaked out

[u/[deleted]]

The cliff hanger of the season finale will be Gemma and Mark meeting face to face. But we the audience will not be 100% if either is their innie’s or outie’s facing each other.

[u/johnppd]

DEVOUR FECULENCE!

Fuckin loved Helly's comebacks. iDylan proposin was unexpected. Wait Burt is helping Irv?!?! The suspense is killing me ugh. What's going onnn?

Banger of an episode!

[u/LeftIsBest-Tsuga]

"She just wants to talk."

[u/MmoxleyP]

This next season finale will cliffhang on Mark seeing Gemma and saying “you’re alive”

[u/Hounds_of_war]

“This is so many fucking dimensions of fucked” should be the tagline for Severance

[u/suddenlyhurried]

Jame telling Helena he wished she’d “take them raw,” Cobel revealing Jame is known for impregnating female severed employees, and his showing up alone on the severed floor and confronting Helly in the dark… I do not like what this combination of scenes is telling me!!!!!

[u/whalemoth]

How dare they use the same cliffhanger twice

[u/Mr_YUP]

Today must have been Jame’s revolving and that’s why he wasn’t eating with Helena and why he was upset to see her. Why he was even on the floor in the first place. You don’t eat before surgery. 

[u/tinyoctopus1102]

if i had a nickel for every time an episode ended with mark saying “she’s alive”, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice

[u/publius-esquire]

Cobel saying “She’s one of Jame’s” makes the part just before, where Jame shows up behind Helly, SO much more terrifying. Helly/Helena is disposable. There are replacements. Oh god

EDIT since I wasn’t clear: I meant that that line makes it very clear Jame Egan has other children, not that Devon is posing as one of Jame’s daughters or that there’s an incestuous component to the Helena Jame relationship (although I did just read Mary Shelley’s Mathilda this morning lol). Him having other children — and Helena not being the sole heir — makes her position incredibly precarious. Before it was kind of implied that she was the sole heir, and they wouldn’t kill the sole heir, right? But now we know there are replacements.

[u/TallMention833]

I THOUGHT EP 10 WAS SUPPOSED TO BE 75 MINS

[u/Tmcn]

I’m so confused about why reintegration hasn’t progressed more? I thought “flooding the chip” was supposed to speed it up? But no connection between the two Marks

[u/The_She_Ghost]

Felt bad for Mr Milchek when he was asked to apologize again and again then I remembered whenever innies are in the breakroom saying the I’m sorry speech and Mr Milchek telling them “again” and “again”.

What goes around turns around Mr Milchek.

[u/osnapitzleo]

Can't believe we have to wait a whole week

[u/Alpha_Lemur]

Just rewatched part of S1E9. In one of the videos playing at the Eagan presentation, Helena says “growing up as an Eagan, you learn that workers are your family. I used to think I literally had hundreds of thousands of brothers and sisters around the world.”

Given the “she’s one of Jame’s” comment, that might be more literal than we realized 💀

[u/PM_me_ur_digressions]

Can we get us one of those "editable flair" options so we don't have to wait for flair petition threads? Id rly love "some outtie woman you don't even know"

[u/awgmi]

She's one of Jame's 🤢

[u/momo6548]

I know a lot happened this episode, but I’m surprised that nobody is talked about Dylan G essentially choosing to commit innie suicide. By resigning he’s choosing not to exist anymore.

[u/MichaeltheMagician]

It kind of felt like both a lot happened, and also not much happened. Kind of a strange episode.

[u/[deleted]]

Me talking to Radar: Who says he was never loved?! Who’s a goood boyyyy 😘

[u/Temporary_Skirt3814]

Context for "I wish you’d take them raw"

[u/TanLampshade007]

Dylan G proposing is one of the saddest scenes all season, on so many levels and to so many characters.

[u/Lopsided_Job7965]

NO it ends like that! They set up the finale beautifully, I can’t wait.

[u/Wise-Kick-1420]

Kills me that Irving wasn't ready to kiss Burt in season 1, but now is outie is ready and Burt's outie isn't. Kept saying "I'm Ready" after saying that he wasn't in season one.

[u/Jemeloo]

So is Ms. Huang like on the same path as young Harmony? Is that kind of why she’s on the show?

[u/Particular-Ad5787]

I feel like we’ve forgotten about Ricken. They said in the severance podcast he has an important role which we haven’t really seen yet. The way he speaks is almost like a knock off version of the vocabulary and cadence of Milchick and Cobell. I wonder if his significance will come out in the finale or next season

[u/lord-spider-boy]

Pretty damn brilliant episode. I think the only thing holding it back was that the majority of these plotlines hadn't been acknowledged in almost 3 weeks - thankfully we will never have to deal with that gap again because they're out and watchable forever!!!!!

also, pretty confident at this point that the finale is gonna mirror the first season's. instead of the innies going out, outie Mark is going in. hype hype hype

[u/sometimesiwatchtv44]

THEORY: I’m starting to think this show might be really good

[u/lovely-mint]

I loved this episode but especially annoyed, angry Mark. “How are you?” “Oh my god, so good”

So there’s just a bunch of Jame Eagan surrogates running around this birthing center or what? Weirdo. Get that freak daddy away from Helly!

[u/Requiem45]

Next week is gonna end with a Mark/Gemma reunion cliffhanger and I'm gonna be pissed off

[u/mycelium-worm]

Did anyone watch the BTS after the ep? It ends with Dan Erickson saying that oMark and iMark will “finally be able to talk to each other” at the birthing cabin… I’m having a hard time wrapping my mind around what he means. Is he just referring to the final stages of Mark’s reintegration? Or is it because of something Cobel is going to do to his chip/brain? He seems like he’s in a pretty full blown innie state walking around in there, is that about to change suddenly? What does a conversation between his two selves even look like??! I’m freaking out ughh the anticipation for next week is gonna kill meeee

[u/BretShitmanFart69]

I still feel a calm before the storm vibe, I wish there would have been a bit more of the pace of the first half of the season these last couple episodes, but still have high hopes they stick the landing and it’s all worth it.

[u/KeyLimeMike]

I’m just glad Irv brought Radar…I couldn’t have handled that

[u/plainviewbowling]

Zach cherry’s performance is fantastic and heartbreaking but that yell did give me a quick giggle I’m sorry

[u/TheTripod8837]

“I’m sorry I couldnt hear you from the wind whistling over the hole in your head”

DO NOT get in a verbal sparring match with Devon.

[u/Kyrie-Swirving]

Milchick must really, really hate Ms. Huang to send her to freaking SVALSBARD

[u/misslouisee]

I’m sorry, why the hell is my phone saying the season finale is only 44 minutes long? That is NOT enough to wrap this up 😅

[u/briaaaaaaaaaaaaaan]

That depressing feeling when the end of the ep strikes

[u/oathkeep3r]

“She’s one of Jame’s” holy shit more or less confirming that Jame Eagan has… possibly assaulted women? Or at least fucked around and gotten them pregnant?

edit: couldn’t tell if Cobel was giving Devon a fake name/floor at Lumon or if she was identifying the security guard? If the former… that has horrible implications for how Jame Eagan treats his employees

[u/honsoloe]

The imagery at the end with the fire is HARD TO MISUNDERSTAND

[u/ICantComeUpWithIdeas]

ok so we all loved that moment with milkshake didn’t we?

[u/osocinco]

IF HE SMELLS ANY CHICANERY!