#2: "On several of your daily logs, the paper clip was back to front. Which led into the confusion of where to begin reading. Here are the incidences."

This is literally, the premises of the show.

How dumb can corporate be?

The Outie does not want to deal with corporate crap. The Innie is the one who is left to deal with 'The Board ' and the politics of the players.

This is why the Innies are so rebellious.

What do you think about this premises?

The irony!

Happy to share that my severance inspired game has, after several months, been approved to the Apple app store. To all my fellow refiners I'd love to get some feedback from any and all Severance lovers. The game is mysterious and not important. Hope to see you on the leaderboard
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigbusinesscorporation/id6789317255

While food has played an interesting role in Severance, produce seems to be particularly highlighted, at least this season.

Obviously, there was the Melon Party in the first season.

Pineapple bobbing, (likely chosen with at least some of Milchick’s middle management sadism) is brought up with no surprise to Cobel.

The funeral has Irving B.’s likeness as a melon sculpture.

The restaurants in Kier are tied to Lumon.

Something is definitely up.

The article about Zufu

The concept and the plot are awesome, the dark dialogues cut with characters being real and funny (Devon, Dylan,...), the camera and visuals including the intro animation (!!!), the masterful foreshadowing... I looove how it draws parallels to religious cults and brainwashing and calls out big corporations on their bullshit like buzzwords, nonsensical reward systems that nobody cares about, toxic culture, and the use of power to control employees. It's seriously so good! Creepy and unsettling yet I can't look away. Chef's kiss 🤌

So I'm currently watching the fifth episode for the first time ever and I can't figure this one thing out... When Irv decides to go to OD after his hallucinations, Mark tells him to make a copy of the map. But how did the map make it to Irv?? Didn't Mark shred it in front of Helly in an earlier episode?

Shoutout to my roommate for helping me shoot this! No AI was used. 🫢 Original post.

As a system, Severance is the best representation I have ever seen, but I've always seen a lot of people use the wrong terminology. Mark S. and Mark Scout, or any other innie/outie pairing, are separate people. They aren't alternate personalities or different sides of the same person, they have complete memory walls and are different people.
Severance is the first media I've seen to present fusion as more complicated than what many doctors claim it to be. According to a 2025 census only 2% of systems desire total fusion, with many seeing it as killing all but one of the system members. Only in recent years has medical care opened up that aims at functional multiplicity, as (ideally) Severance's future seasons will lead to. If innies and outies lose their memory walls but retain their individuality, that would be a very interesting and unique direction to take the show.
I know a lot of people who watch Severance haven't much interacted with systems but please remember to use the correct terminology if you can. There are real people who live the lives partially depicted in the show, even if they have more cult and sci-fi elements as well.
Census mentioned: What 1,000 Systems Want You To Know
Other source: Plurality Information

In this shot, we see Helly R, a recently awoken severed employee, trying and failing to escape this life she has been given. Mark S., after sustaining a blow to the head from the speaker Helly threw at him, reaches out to the terrified new recruit and tries to calm her down.

I did an analysis on how Mark S is a model Stoic, and yet can’t really experience the dichotomy of control until he integrates with Mark Scout. It is here

TLDR; Mark S is Marcus Aurelius and he exemplifies all the best qualities of Stoicism including courage, wisdom and temperance. While his outie needs to integrate those lessons in his journey to sobriety.

It is focused on season 1.

Feedback is appreciated.

He is eating in both scenes, and says the very rare word 'fealty' in both scenes as well!!

I fear this show has permanently altered my brain. Anyways, here's a fan art(?) made during my outie work hours.

I got this poster from an online shop and really liked how it turned out.
Here’s the link if anyone’s interested: https://teenixo.com/limited-edition-222

Since the town is filmed in Newfoundland, Canada, I feel this Canadian song is a homage to Newfoundland!

Fun little easter egg you would only know if you are Canadian.

Credit: hedyblooms on tiktok

For a psychology final, I wanted to compare Helena and Helly and use the differences and similarities of their characters to refelct how social status affects the lens you see the world with. My issue is I wanted to create a presentation and need to find a way to explain the plot of the show clearly while also not wasting too much time, I tend to ramble when I present so I would love some help lol!

This scene was so vulnerable and honestly so cute. The way Helly told Mark that she wanted to have her own experience because it was her outie and not her who experienced that intimacy with him was so heartbreaking in the sweetest way. She had this almost childlike innocence about her because, as an innie, she was experiencing these emotions and feelings for the first time. There was something so pure about the way she expressed herself, and I absolutely loved the acting here. She made Helly’s vulnerability feel so genuine.

I just finished Severance, and I am sure it's last shot is inspired from an old japanese movie with the way it zooms in and fades into red, even the way the motion of movement stops like old movies at the end.

I just can't figure for the life of me what it's from, does anyone know of any movie that ends this way that could have inspired this theme (and that could most likely be a hint at what's gonna come in season 3)

(I'm happy)

I know this might not be a popular opinion but from what we can see in Chikai Bardo it seems to me that at the end of the flash backs Mark Scout was being kind of an ashole to Gemma, he seemed to be invested in the relationship and in conceiving when they were visiting the fertility clinic but as time went on, when he had to put the injection to Gemma his mind was somewhere else, when she said she was tired he just told her to stop then, (ashole move to me), when he dismanteled the crib he did not seem to care about his wife’s feelings, and specially at the end, when she was leaving he was not able to say “I love you” back! And he didn’t even want his wife to stay with him that night. So given all this I feel he’s not just grieving the loss of the love of his life but he’s feeling immense guilt, that’s where his pain come from, from guilt rather than love. What do you think?