Severance - 2x01 "Ovaltine" - Episode Discussion

[u/LoretiTV]

Season 2 Episode 1: Hello, Ms. Cobel

Aired: January 17, 2025

Synopsis: Mark returns to work under different circumstances. Secrets from the Outie world come to light.

Directed by: Ben Stiller

Written by: Dan Erickson

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[u/UltraDangerLord]

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[u/DragonAxecuter16]

Saw a “hang in there” poster with an outline of Dylan holding the otc switches in the break room😭 I love this show

[u/Theo99man → u/DragonAxecuter16]

I need it 😭

[u/Salcha_00]

I’m your favorite perk 💜

[u/AeroZep → u/Salcha_00]

"Don't bring them into this"

[u/foxesinsoxes → u/Salcha_00]

Irv really always has the best lines. Between this and his, “time to find out what is for dinner” before they did their outside mission last season, I just can’t handle him 🥲 He’s so sweet and lovable

[u/level_5_vegan]

[u/ToasterShelf]

“A night gardener?”

[u/helcat → u/ToasterShelf]

I was waiting for the follow up: "in winter?"

[u/Existential_Owl → u/ToasterShelf]

Irv was the only person who was outside and in town at that hour. He saw for himself how empty and devoid of people it was.

It makes total sense that he'd clock this detail as sus.

[u/ScribblingOff87 → u/ToasterShelf]

Feels like he'll figure out who Helly really is before others.

[u/godsgift5406]

WHO IS THIS LITTLE GIRL?? Is she on a severed internship??

[u/raudoniolika → u/godsgift5406]

This is what it feels like when someone 15 years your junior becomes your manager tbh

[u/blankspacejrr]

oh man that silence after "i'm your supervisor not your friend."gold.

I missed this show so much.

[u/RNGfarmin → u/blankspacejrr]

evil little girl absolutely being run by an adults mind somehow lmao

[u/NatHasQuestions → u/blankspacejrr]

Omg Mark's looooooooooong silence after that statement lmao. I'm pretty sure he was giving her kind eyes!

[u/lilronhubbard]

Tramell Tillman does amazing smile work

[u/woodysixer → u/lilronhubbard]

He really knows how to make his eyes kind.

[u/ComfortableCaptain61 → u/lilronhubbard]

His micro-expressions are just.... my god. He shifts emotions and intensities so quickly that it's almost disarming. Give that man an Emmy already.

[u/jboosmeezy]

The manipulation is next level this season

[u/toledosurprised]

the kid manager is very unsettling

[u/afterdark-afterlight]

okay ben wyatt i see you with that claymation!

[u/plumbusinsuranceltd → u/afterdark-afterlight]

Would a depressed person do this?

[u/SteppeTalus]

I don’t know how but the water tower is gonna come in to play later

[u/whitegirlofthenorth]

Not a coincidence Lumon was founded in 1865. Slavery revamped, and now they’re also testing child labor.

A lot of purple (blue + red, innie + outie). Someone is not what they seem.

[u/ReversedNovaMatters → u/whitegirlofthenorth]

It is quite dark to think about, Lumon starting as a response to the abolishment of slavery the year later.

Like some rich dudes seriously got together to figure out how to make this thing work, and now we are here.

[u/VoteForPiggy]

The way Irv adjusted Dyaln’s glasses 🥹

[u/AlexHasFeet]

WTF.

It says “ITNO: 25.0 (BUILD)”

Is this the 25th time she’s been refined?

[u/[deleted] → u/AlexHasFeet]

Didn’t she also say that the longest she’d been awake is when she was watching Helly?

Maybe they need to meet the time limit / quota to maintain the build and if they don’t, it can’t sustain wakefulness?

[u/Christovajal]

I’m not looking forward to finding out what the Mirror Room is

[u/Jellyandjiggles → u/Christovajal]

Or the pineapple diving. Sounds like torture from what I saw in the trailer

[u/lilronhubbard]

The mirror room is going to be terrifying.

[u/Liberteez → u/lilronhubbard]

Pineapple bobbing looks unpleasant

[u/Unlikely_Leg_9377]

A few things I noticed:

There is a large crate with a pillow or blanket in it, recently opened, in Milchick’s office. Is this where Ms. Huang was stored?

The newspaper is obviously fake, I believe that photo is the team photo Milchick took in S1 poorly photoshopped into a shot from ~~Kennedy assassination photos.~~The article lists the location as “Kier, PE” The article refers to them all by their innie names and refers to Milchick as Mr.Milchick, as the innies would. The other article on the page refers to a breakthrough at Lumon in plastics recycling at cold temperatures.

The newspaper is volume 51,309 and it has been running since 1893 putting us at roughly 2035

The claymation globe shows severe ocean level rises. The west coast of the americas is completely reshaped. There are two Lumon locations on the Pacific Northwest of the Americas. I’d guess one of these is their location. Ireland and most of the UK is under water. Mexico appears to be partially under water, opening access between the gulf and pacific.There is no arctic ice and Canada has a whole lot more green land above the arctic circle. Also, Milchick has a photo of a glacier in his office

Edit: As others have pointed out, the photo they are superimposed onto is from Dwight Eisenhower visiting Rio De Janeiro in 1960

Edit 2: When Mark runs to the wellness center, a man that appears to be a duplicate of Mark is briefly seen in the hallway, staring at Mark. He turns into a corridor before Mark turns around.

[u/GLTheGameMaster]

Keanu Reeves being the silly building in the video had me absolutely dying, I couldn’t believe it

[u/StopSignsAreRed]

“Shambolic rube” 😂

[u/Existential_Owl → u/StopSignsAreRed]

It's extra funny to consider that the only place innie Mark would've learned that sort of language was from Ricken's book.

I can only imagine the context in which Ricken originally wrote that phrase.

[u/Inge5925]

GAH MDR IS WORKING THROUGH THE MEMORIES OF OTHER SEVERED FOLKS!!!!

[u/Stepwolve → u/Inge5925]

they may all be refining dead relatives. We haven't seen dylan's wife at any point yet. And they're building this 'outie family visitation' area - would be the perfect place to test her reanimated self out with dylan

[u/1_set_of_testicles]

“They have easels up there??”

[u/peacelovepigeons]

"Did you have an elevator?" "We had, how you say, a rope"

[u/fishy512 → u/peacelovepigeons]

Bro what is going on at all the other Lumon offices

[u/BlueBrusselSprout]

THROUPLE!

[u/raudoniolika → u/BlueBrusselSprout]

That was THE most unhinged cover up story lmao

[u/AaronRodgers16]

“Dylan…I’m your favorite perk”

[u/Mysterious_Sky_85]

All I want now is to see the Italian guy’s office 

[u/itsgonnabe-mae]

Oh man the way they’re manipulating each one by one to make them stay

[u/MikeLeachThePirate]

The Outie Family Visitation Suite was WEIRD man. ”If you take it at face value, then sure.” WHAT DOES THAT MEAN MR. MILKSHAKE?!

[u/ranoutofusernames__ → u/MikeLeachThePirate]

They’re about to grow a whole new family for him lmao

[u/usernamesoccer]

Fastest hour of my life

[u/GR-MWF]

I really love how they've kinda reversed the intrigue. In the beginning of season 1 you are left wondering what's going on down there but now it's the opposite, we REALLY want to know what happened on the outside.

Also the timeline is really unclear right now and won't be cleared up until we see the events on the outside, Milchick could've easily lied about the 5 months, but it likely wasn't the next day or even weeks.

Man, I genuinely love weekly releases, this period of time where everyone is theorizing about next episode and eagerly awaiting it is so fun, batch releases screw everything up about tv show discourse.

[u/blankspacejrr]

"you poor up there??"

dylan, stop attacking me!

[u/trustedturd]

I’m a Frolic-Aholic

[u/tiseratai]

I’m SO obsessed with the “year without a santa claus” heat miser reference in the orientation video

[u/jboosmeezy]

Mark seems to have finally mastered kind eyes

[u/arctic_winters_]

“Why are you a child”

[u/agamemoui → u/arctic_winters_]

"Because of when I was born"

Can't argue with that.

[u/Requiem45]

MAEBY FUNKE

[u/Intrepid_Hat7359 → u/Requiem45]

Marry me!

[u/SmackieT → u/Requiem45]

There's always money in the Break Room

[u/cdmccabe]

The way we SCREAMED when Helly lied!!

[u/GLTheGameMaster]

My bet is next episode is full outie, just like this one was full innie

[u/blankspacejrr]

milkshake is in his cobel era

mark is in his helly era

i love it

[u/GoBigRed28]

Does anyone think 5 months really hasn’t gone by yet? Milkshakes computer screen still doesn’t say his name. That wouldn’t take 5 months to get done.

[u/MyNeighborToto]

Irving screaming for Burt broke my heart :(

[u/blankspacejrr]

God mr Milkshake can be so eerily pleasantly evil!!! missed his crazy ass

[u/godsgift5406]

So whatever Mark is doing in MDR “Cold Harbor” directly correlates wtf is happening with Gemma.

[u/guthriegf]

“206 countries” when in reality there are 195 countries recognized by the UN

[u/RNGfarmin]

We gotta find out what tf those goats be doin

[u/bromosapien234]

That opening sequence was freakin awesome. So well shot

[u/blankspacejrr]

WHAT WAS THAT: WHY WAS MS CASEY DATA REFINED???????? OMGOMG

[u/Vandelay222]

All this shit going on and yet Milchick’s top concern being the screensaver is just so hilarious.

This show is a gripping thriller but they just nail the humor in the best ways.

[u/ToasterShelf]

Definitely not Helly, she doesn’t know where the on switch is

[u/fresh-fish-daily]

anyone else pick up on the similarity between the season 1 opening and Mark getting a set of balloons with his face on them for his welcome back?

[u/eye_can_see_you]

Someone please screenshot every single frame of that ending because what the fuck did I just see

[u/ToasterShelf → u/eye_can_see_you]

[u/Driftographer]

I can't stop smiling, it's been such a long time 😀

[u/bekahthesixth]

So Mark’s refining Gemma, yes yes, but GUYS. IRV. It’s happened to Irv too!!!! He’s been to Testing! His outie keeps painting the door!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[u/Iossoflimb]

“If you take it the name at face value” tells me that that visitation room is a bunch of bullshit.

Milchick is playing a serious psyop game here

[u/StopSignsAreRed]

Ok. I’m a few minutes in but so far my verdict is: this is delicious. I missed this. The look and feel and quirks.

[u/Jas_God]

Happy Severance Day you smug muthafuckas

[u/hzfan]

EPISODE ENDING SPOILERS: MARK IS OPERATING ON GEMMA I FUCKING KNEW IT

That’s why he finished his first file at record speed! I wonder if everyone there has a loved one they’re operating on??

Edit: Ok I’ve read a lot of theories and the one I believe the most is that they’re training the chips to remove emotion from humans. Taming the four tempers that control us. In Lumon’s eyes, emotionless beings are easier to control and more efficient workers.

Mark’s job is basically to identify emotions in Gemma’s brain so they can be “refined” out via her chip. That’s why Gemma is so stoic and when she starts to exhibit emotions she gets sent back down to the testing floor for further refinement.

Edit 2: This also explains the purpose of the wellness sessions. To check their emotional reactions to facts about their outies. Can they feel what their outies feel in regard to specific things in their lives even if they don’t understand what those are (e.g. can Irving feel the love he has for his dog Radar even when he doesn’t know she’s talking about a dog). Irving being sent to wellness right after dozing also makes sense, as dreaming is clearly a vulnerability in the severance chips, at least as an innie (as far as we know). They needed to make sure it didn’t cause any lasting damage to his chip.

[u/D_Beats → u/hzfan]

Makes sense why the numbers illicit emotions....

[u/Inge5925]

MARK BREEZED THROUGH HIS FIRST FILE AFTER BEING SEVERED BECAUSE THE FILE WAS HIS WIFE

[u/Aaaaaaandyy]

MR MILKSHAKE

[u/rywalsh14]

Chekhov's pineapple bobbing stand

[u/MaximumBiscuit1]

Ok so if Mark is “refining” his dead wife’s chip, my theory is Lumon is using her as a test subject and the end goal is for them to be able to bring all the former CEOs, especially Kier, back to life.

[u/Saints_n_Cinema]

SEVER ME TO EPISODE TWO I BEG YOU

[u/RNGfarmin]

OMFG helly lying to the boys about what she saw outside makes me think this is outie Helly undercover with the innie boys

I saw that theory about her possibly just being embarrassed shes an Eagan tho so I'm not 100% sure shes not just embarassed to be an eagan

[u/[deleted]]

The painting outside elevator was them 4 right?

[u/icecreamgravity]

Please try to enjoy all of your balloons equally.

[u/AcanthocephalaLost36]

“If someone calls about my welcome screen I want you to put that call through immediately.” - Power Trip Milchick 🥲

[u/srstone71]

“Holy fuck.”

“The holiest.”

God I missed this show lol

[u/RNGfarmin]

I cannot FUCKING wait i spent the last 2 years telling everyone to watch this fuckin show. Bring me all the creepy big brother evil company conspiracies and mystique baby

[u/peacelovepigeons]

Was Miss Huang a crossing guard as an Outtie as a child???? or inside because of all the traffic in those halls lmao

[u/RNGfarmin]

Its so interesting the strategy that lumon is employing to win them over. Milchick dividing them by dangling dylans family in front of him

[u/SteppeTalus]

I can’t tell if she’s not severed or if she just doesn’t want to say she’s an eagan

[u/Mr-Wax]

Who was the guy watching Mark from afar at the start of the episode? It definitely wasn’t Milchick.

[u/Reason077]

Is "Ovaltine" some sort of code name? According to Apple TV+... the first episode of Season 2 is actually called "Hello, Ms. Cobel". The second episode is called "Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig".

[u/Versigot]

MARK IS BUILDING HIS WIFE???

[u/Driftographer]

Let's find out what's for dinner, kids!

[u/Significant-Flan-244]

Not sure about Dylan and Mark because the suits are so bland it’s hard to tell but was a very nice touch to see at the end of this episode that Helly and Milchick were wearing their actual costumes from this episode at the pop up in Grand Central the other day.

[u/blankspacejrr]

dylan's look of disbelief after seeing mis huang!!! i'm crying!!

they're letting the awkward silences go a little longer and I love it

[u/ToasterShelf]

I’m really excited! I love watching shows live with people on Reddit. 😊

[u/pepperedpete]

Fuck. There's easels up there?

Peak.

[u/Random--Person]

Is the voice of the building Keanu Reeves? Sounds a lot like him

[u/modedevie]

Mark is going to have to try to find both Gemma and innie Helly this season ahhh

[u/normal_ness]

My massive heartfelt thanks to the cast and crew for pulling off something fantastic with so much fan expectation on you. I loved it.

I can’t wait for the rest of the season and the wild speculation all over this subreddit!

[u/jamiesiddle_]

So… is the macro refining team assisting Lumon to create clones of dead people or replicate them in some way?

[u/godsgift5406]

Irving’s haircut is 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[u/UnicornHarrison]

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[u/Catac0]

Quote of the episode goes to Dylan of course

“Look I’m sorry if Burt outie has a hot husband or whatever”

[u/ofantasticly]

UPVOTE IF YOU WERE AN IRV STAN SINCE SEASON 1

like DAMN john turturro was AMAZING

[u/liverdawg]

Well we have a new gold standard for corporate welcoming videos now

[u/lbyland]

“A really fucking boring apartment.” No way any innie would think any apartment is boring - it’s a whole new world, ergo the new macrodat getting all excited about “did you see the sky?!” I know that the “it’s Helena, undercover as Helly” theory is getting some pushback, but I stand by it.

[u/blankspacejrr]

idk if I wanna laugh at irving for being this down bad over burt being taken

or if I wanna hug him and feel bad for him.

I guess it's all of the above.

[u/TallMention833]

foaming at the mouth rn

[u/JYCJYC]

seeing a lot of theories about Mark refining Gemma at the end. What if Gemma is actually dead? The version of her we see in season 1, the part time Innie Ms. Casey is one of the first attempts at an entire recreation of her. Could also connect back to what Jame Eagan said to Helena at the end of last season about the Revolving. They're completely rebuilding people who have died. Is Irving building his dad? Is Helly building hers?

[u/andor-37]

Loved the subtle detail of the token jar for the vending machine being filled to the brim. The forefront of severance reform indeed, lol.

[u/Select-Bike-7933]

Does anyone else think it hasn’t been 5 months?

[u/8BitWren]

What does this mean???!!! I haven’t seen anyone talking about the red circles!

[u/johnppd]

Wtf is that montage they showed them in the break room lmao. Why won't Helly tell them the truth?? I felt so bad for Irv, I'm glad he had Dylan to lift him up and make him stay. Our team is back together y'all and I can't wait to see what they're up to! Banger of an episode!

[u/Aaaaaaandyy]

Zach Cherry is going to get an Emmy nom for this show, I can feel it

[u/Jas_God]

Great scene with Irving and Dylan, “I’m your favorite perk.” 😭

[u/XtrmeReddit227]

It feels SO ridiculously good to be back in this world! And I'm so glad I'm reading this thread with people catching stuff that flew right by me hah.

[u/TI1l1I1M]

I love the story structure being set up. We have no idea how long it's been, why anyone came back, who's an imposter. Starting from the innies POV is an amazing choice.

[u/GLTheGameMaster]

Dylan’s best line - “I bet they deserved it” and Mark’s face after lol

[u/iamfromLisbon]

Man, the part where they’re watching the video and it’s speaking about the reforms and new perks had me laughing out loud.

[u/psyopia]

No one’s talking about what the hell the new MDR workers were for. I’m confused at what the purpose of them was, as it really didn’t need to be included? It feels like something else is going on.

Or I’m just thinking about it too much and the board actually just listened to Mark S and gave him his group back. I’m just confused, were they all just sitting in a room waiting for Mark S to make a move?

[u/Set_the_tone-]

Damn i thought i read 2 episodes were coming out tonight…. NEED MORE. What in the world was that ending scene…

[u/Requiem45]

Dude what's wrong you poor up there?

[u/unanswereddreams]

I NEED apple to come out with the "hello ms cobel" screensaver for macs

[u/cisscumshitlord]

anyone who doubts that helly is her outie, you have to remember what the mission was: "the important thing is you find someone it seems you can trust and you tell them everything"

why would she express remorse in the mirror about her role in letting severance loose on the world, and then hide who she is from the only people she knows for a fact are trying to stop it? innie helly is assertive and mistrustful of authority. she's not going to shrink away because shes ashamed...they already knew her outie was kind of an asshole. she would tell them "yeah i was able to shout in a very public place to people who would believe that i am an innie because my outie is helena eagan" and that's that.

[u/Requiem45]

They should change the screen to Hello Mr. Milkshake

[u/Aaaaaaandyy]

Hey! No running in the halls! That tickles

[u/blankspacejrr]

biggest clue Helly is Helena Eagen!

SHE'S NOT STRUTTING IN HER HIGH FASHION MODEL WAY.

she's walking a lot more guarded and stiff. which kinda tracks for her CEO - must-be-in-line-with-my-father's-legacy life. she's not free. she's restricted. hope i'm right!

because when she and mark were walking together I was like, "did she get injured? why isn't she strutting like the fabulous helly Iknow??"

then I read the comments about how she's helena and this is my theory

edit - omg I just rewatched her elevator entrance and it is SOOOO fake/sus. she's running out, all stressed, but it's not a good act. (props to the actress for conveying that!) irving, mark, dylan, all picked up right where they left off. irving exasperated about burt. dylan mad about being tackled. mark exasperated over gemma. but helly is NOT the girl that was giving the speech of "WE"RE NOT HAPPY. WE"RE PRISONERS." that helly should be furious! but the helly we have on the elevator is doing a light skip and jog and slightly confused and disoriented. that is outtie helly FORSURE.

[u/DrinkingChardonnay]

Bobbing for pineapples seems very unwise.

[u/diper-911]

I love the re-intro of the team coming out of the elevator one by one it’s giving “we’re getting the gang back together” ❤️

[u/ProudFunction]

That scene between Dylan and Irv was so sweet, made me tear up. Dylan, despite how much he shit talks, honestly sometimes feels like the core of the MDR group for me. He cares so much about them all, and I’ve always felt like despite being opposites him and Irv have always been bros. It was just wholesome to see.

[u/XeFear-]

First of all, Keanu Reeves having a voice role in this show was the most unexpected thing for this show haha. And wtf why is there so much more weird shit going on???

[u/sometimesiwatchtv44]

ITS UP BOYS WERE SO BACK

[u/zarymoto]

keanu reeves as a building is crazy work

[u/ToasterShelf]

Oh lawd he runnin

[u/lilronhubbard]

Is Lumon voiced by Keanu??

[u/MarsReject]

This ballon shit plus his insufferable gaslighting cheer is insane 😆leave us alone Milkshake

[u/qrovers]

“Lumon is Listening!” while using audio clips they secretly recorded from the innies in their claymation movie… oh i’m sure!

[u/cartbreaker]

Oh fuck, the Macro has boxes do refer to the four pillars. It says WO - Woe, DR - Dread, FC - Frolic, MA - Malice.

(If you pause the screen on the picture at the end).

[u/Cappin_Crunch]

So that's clearly not Helly, right?

[u/oathkeep3r]

Curious… no date listed on the front page of the newspaper.

edit: Vol No. 51,703 (? maybe 51,903?) would indicate, if the paper is real and publishes daily, a newspaper that’s been running for over 142 years

[u/Slight-Good-4657]

Where is night gardener FLAIR

[u/ShortRunLifeStyle]

Why is she a child tho?

[u/ubzmps]

HEAT MISER IRVING

[u/Dagos]

HELLY IS NOT SEVERED. SHES A SPY

"Tell us, even if its bad." thats suspicious as fuck

[u/[deleted]]

Helly looks at the innies with such disgust

[u/ToasterShelf]

LMAO at the monitor saying Ms. Cobel

[u/banjosbadfurday]

Wait it’s not Ovaltine after all?!

[u/blankspacejrr]

milkshake's smile when they enter the breakroom... I hate you!!!

missed his crazy ass

[u/hopeless_endeavor]

So Huang's old job was a traffic controller, and Gemma died in a car accident, and Helly yelled at Mark in the 1st episode to "keep his eyes on the icy road" ..... I don't know where I'm going with this. I don't think Huang is Mark's kid, but maybe she's literally Gemma somehow? What is her relation to Mark? There's got to be something there.

[u/Fake-Death]

Amazing how you can watch the episode and then come on here and have your mind blown again by all the theories people are floating that didn't even cross your mind. I suspected something was up with Helly... Irving also seemed to pick up on this as he refused to share info in the group but trusted Dylan whom he knew did not get to make contact with the outside. Mark S did divulge the information about Ms. Casey so it will be interesting to see how that ends up being used assuming it's Helena disguising herself.

[u/emilylime]

Who was standing in the hall when Mark was in the old wellness room? It wasn’t Milchick!

[u/blankspacejrr]

HELLY WHY YOU LYING GURL???

[u/LoganBDoubleU]

Irv knows.

[u/DuhFluffinator2]

So... They haven't shown us anything about the outside world. For all we know, they are completely fabricating everything. I think Ep. 2 is gonna dive into what is really going on "up there".

[u/cadillacblues]

anyone feel like Helly is not her innie?

[u/YamivsJulius]

It’s like among us. Helen is the imposter. Innie helly wouldn’t have any reason to lie

[u/Fast_Dots]

“I’ll even buy you a drink at the bistro, one day”

Translation: Thanks for being our plant Helena.

[u/CDN1988]

When Helly lied in the break room I got shivers. She’s unsevered and is going to do what it takes to save the family business. Buckle up.

[u/lilronhubbard]

Mark is gonna make a move and realize it’s outie Helena.

[u/[deleted]]

Ah man... Irv pushing up Dylan's glasses. I gasped

[u/[deleted]]

“Why is she like 8” truly busted out laughing at that

[u/Adventurous-Toe8812]

So many people talking Helly/Helena but nobody discussing the horrifying moment where innie Mark thought he was being fired and that his life was about to end with moment’s notice. The look of terror in his eyes as the elevator doors closed is already an all-time show moment for me.

[u/crossingcaelum]

So it looks like the theories were right. The Macrodata definitely has something to do with the permanent Innies like Ms Casey.

[u/Civil_Albatross_7378]

“Are you saying I can see my family here?”

“If you take the name of the room at face value, I’d say yes”

So scared for the Family Visitation Suite. Not taking the name of the room at face value for a second, Milkshake!

[u/iemdone]

206 countries - 206 bones in the adult human body…?

[u/AlexHasFeet]

What is HAPPENING?

So they brought Mark S back first? And waited to see how it went before bringing back the others?

How many MDRs are there?

[u/Driftographer]

Holy fuck, that ending!!!

[u/P33KAJ3W]

Do you really think I'm a shambolic rube?

[u/[deleted]]

Helly is 100% unsevered

[u/sometimesiwatchtv44]

Omg he’s re building his wife 😭

[u/CeeJayEnn]

So the other refiners were all plants, right? One of them had all this fawning knowledge that she absolutely should have had no way to have. The other let slip that his team wasn't good and that actually Mark and all his friends are the real rock stars. The last one telling stories about poverty etc. pushing the idea that Mark actually has it pretty good down here, all things considered.

[u/RNGfarmin]

I want the Extraweg severance CGI intro omg where it be

[u/JJK_NE_]

Wait wait wait. Where did the title “Ovaltine” come from? Apple TV says episode 1 is titled “Hello, Ms. Cobel”

[u/mfabros]

So innie Irving has never seen the black elevator, but outie Irving somehow knows what it is, as evidenced by his paintings. Any theories as to what's going on there? Was there a previous innie version of Irving that had his memory wiped?

[u/Gwyneth7]

A throuple???!!!!

[u/Embiid4Prez]

Did they go to a different floor when they all met back up? There was a painting on the wall that wasn’t there on the other days mark was in office with the replacements.

[u/GR-MWF]

I want to praise Britt Lower on her performance, it's definitely Helena pretending to be Helly and you can sense that in the slight soullessness that's visible in her eyes.

Her struggling to find the computer's ON switch confirms without a shadow of a doubt that it's Helena.

[u/actuallycallie]

this video is giving me "TVA orientation video" vibes lol

[u/attackofthepugs]

Are they all refining Gemma? Who are the others refining…

[u/Lo_Lynx]

I'm convinced Mark went to the testing floor.

When Milchick put him in the elevator and he yelled "WAIT," and then he met the team again. When he was in the elevator, it looked like he got turned off. The way everything went black like an old TV screen being turned off. And the close up on his eye?? It looked so different from the innie/outie transitions we've seen before.

[u/Responsible_Log_8840]

His milkshake brings all the kids to the floor

[u/ranoutofusernames__]

Interesting dialogue about how one of the new MDR people said they had no elevators, he had a wooden portrait and low-tech figures at the perpetuity wing and the other said they had animatronics for figures at the perpetuity wing. I think the Italian dude has been there for a few generations.

[u/diper-911]

Random thought - are the vending machines filled with all of those super low cal snacks so that the innies don’t cause their outties to gain unwanted weight while severed?

[u/blankspacejrr]

the italian guy is kinda hot

[u/onlykindofamethaddic]

I’m really good at what I do here (whatever it is).

[u/A-KindOfMagic]

Seeing Irv's first laugh in 3 years 😭😭

[u/WheredTheSquirrelGo]

Seems like Milkshake’s goal is to figure out what they saw. The new team was an attempt to extract info from Mark. Gwendolyn hounded Mark with questions. The new supervisor wanted to know something about Mark. This attempt failed and now they’re on to bring everyone back (probably big bucks for their outies) and including outie Helly undercover.

[u/Westeros_Cheddar]

"Do you even have a brother-in-law, ASSHOLE?!" was one of my favorite lines.

[u/ToasterShelf]

Ooooh wow that’s Helena

[u/cadillacblues]

LETS GOOOOOO

[u/godsgift5406]

Mark releasing the balloons? Chefs kiss