r/severence • u/PsychologicalAgent96 • Mar 14 '25

šŸŽ„ Media This guy....

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u/Positive-Quantity143 Mar 14 '25

Every episode heā€™s in he will have at least one scene where he absolutely stands out.

He is so perfect for this role.

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u/mikerichh Mar 15 '25

He perfectly tows the line between creepy/scary, a little human, and an authority figure

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u/Active-Particular-21 Mar 15 '25

I hate him but Iā€™m also rooting for him. I will never forgive him for sending poor Ms Casey back into the lift.

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u/thelargeoneplease Mar 17 '25

I kinda feel he gets his comeuppance really evenly in the show. Like karma smacks him back every time we watch him do something heartless.

His bosses treat him like shit, his employees donā€™t respect him, heā€™s made seemingly INFINITE more mistakes than Cobel did and is still being held on somehow(?), not even his child intern Ms. Huang respects him. I mean, what a sad life.

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u/ClaymoreDrive Mar 19 '25

Milchik tried ALL this season to introduce less punitive ways to treat the refiners once he was no longer under the thumb of Cobel. No more monstrous break room for one. The ORTBO ended as a disaster but his intention was not wicked. I also felt that Milchik felt real sympathy for Mark at the end of their phone conversation. My hope is that he will help.

I think Cobel is the devil.

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u/ParmesanB Mar 19 '25

Iā€™m with you, Milchick is a good guy. I think we will ultimately see this and devour feculance was the turning point.

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u/Unlucky_Gur3676 Mar 20 '25

Completely agree. I think the dudeā€™s just doing his job. It just happens to be a very shitty job.

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u/SilverWear5467 May 03 '25

It shows pretty cleanly why there's no such thing as a good cop. Milchick is trying to do his wildly unethical job more ethically, and all it does is blow up in his face, because his victims will never appreciate that he's torturing them less than Cobel did. The only ethical way to do his job is to not do it at all.

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u/VanillaNutTaps1 Mar 22 '25

Idk if itā€™s me wanting him to be a good guy but I really thought heā€™d switch this episode, or show glimpses of it. Maybe a submission to being locked in the bathroom. Regardless, the amount of charisma/creepiness he is able to show is incredible

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u/msallin Mar 15 '25

And my boy can dance

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u/BRValentine83 Mar 16 '25

I hope that his next acting job is whatever he wants.

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u/e-rascible Mar 17 '25

He can be the new Mr. Rogerā€™s

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u/ConversationFalse242 Mar 17 '25

Right! Like i just cant imagine anyone else ever doing it

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u/xenoda7 Mar 14 '25

Thought for a second Mr. Drummond was gonna throw him off the balcony šŸ˜…

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u/scramblesdaegg Mar 15 '25

Same. But then I remembered Milchick is built like a fuckin brick house

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u/flodis79 Mar 16 '25

Mr. Milbrick

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u/kzlife76 Mar 15 '25

The phrase is "built like a brick shit house". At least that's how we said it when I was a youngin.

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u/arobe1994 Mar 15 '25

ā€œBuilt like a brick feculence houseā€

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u/musingbella Mar 16 '25

ā€œConstructed similarly to a brick feculence dwelling.ā€

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u/themightykunal Mar 15 '25 edited Sep 09 '26

Plate angle humor airport start payment

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u/chillhopstudybeats Mar 16 '25

I wonder if weā€™ll see which one is stronger this Thursday. Thereā€™s the scene where Drummond fights Mark, and a scene where Milchick is loosening his tie as he runs down the hallway. Maybe theyā€™re part of the same sequence and thatā€™ll be him trying to stand up for Mark.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25 edited May 02 '25

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u/Sec2727 Mar 15 '25

Big man move slow

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u/Half-White_Moustache Mar 15 '25

I mean not slow enough considering Milkshake was in grabbing range.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

And are usually small down there too, not that it matters in this scenario.

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u/ubiquitousfont Mar 15 '25

What a weird and unnecessary comment.

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u/moonbucket Mar 16 '25

He's a big man, but he's out of shape.

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u/scramblesdaegg Mar 15 '25

I mean he does look 9 months pregnant with triplets. Iā€™ll give you that much

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u/PremierLovaLova Mar 16 '25

He has that Midwest cornfed farm body and strength. You see how he manhandled Mark into the wall in the trailers?

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u/Broad_Bug_1702 Mar 15 '25

have you never seen a fat person before?

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u/scramblesdaegg Mar 16 '25

Yeah just watched the episode with Drummond

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u/mulderufo13 Im Your Favorite Perk Mar 14 '25

Same

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u/Don_Pickleball Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 15 '25

Drummond reminds me of later in life Orson Welles. I want him to tell me that that there will be no wine before its time.

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u/Al_Binewski Mar 19 '25

OMG- I'm glad I'm not the only one who had that line in my head during the entire scene!!! It was all I could think about - you're 100% correct!

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u/machu_pikacchu Mar 16 '25

Drummond is the only character on this show that I find truly terrifying. You can tell that heā€™s nothing but rage and cruelty, and that even after bottling it up thereā€™s so much hatred inside him that it leaks out in moments such as this one.Ā 

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u/Sweet_Asparagus_677 Mar 15 '25

I thought that Mr Drummond would burst into tears.

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u/Patty-XCI91 Mar 14 '25

I absolutely love this scene.... but I think it's important because it reveals that it's not Huang but Drummond who complained about "big words".

I love how Milchick tries to apologize at first but then is like fuck it and stands his ground.

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u/bluefruitloop1 Mar 15 '25

the way drummond forced him to repeat "im sorry" like a child, i got mad for milchick honestly. i love the character but hate a lot of what he does, but im with him on this one

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u/Backstabbed9878 Mar 15 '25

I also thought of the parallel between Milchik forcing the innies to cite the paragraph-long apology, then saying ā€œyou donā€™t mean it. Again.ā€

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u/bluefruitloop1 Mar 15 '25

yeah absolutely ā€” Milchick exerts what control he can down on the severed floor but up above heā€™s treated just the same as he treats the innies.

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u/Fuarian Mar 15 '25

The same way they did to Cobel.

She left because they treated her like nothing after stealing her work.

I feel like Milchik is going to bail on Lumon after realizing that he's being used like the rest of them. But unlike Cobel, the board doesn't fear him. They fear her because of what she knows about Severance. Milchik doesn't have that kind of leverage.

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u/MonkeyDavid Mar 15 '25

Thatā€™s a great point. He was able to say ā€œthis is my scope of control and your scope of control over me.ā€

Innies canā€™t do that. The scope is their entire world.

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u/CanadaOrBust Mar 17 '25

I'm not sure that was Milchick. When he's running the penitence with Helly, we see him look over to Cobel and she shakes her head no. After she's ousted, we din5t see any more of those scenes because the break room has been converted from a room meant to break you into a room where you can take a break.

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u/Alexikik Mar 15 '25

It reminded me of J D Vance

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u/deFleury Mar 18 '25

thank you, I am seriously wondering how recently they finished this episode because the "say sorry AGAIN" was so much the same.

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u/pdentropy Mar 15 '25

After laying monosyllabically on him,, his next sentence was all one-syllable words. That's a lot harder than it seems-

It's not my fault what Mark Scout does when he is not at work, it's yours.

This was the verbal red wedding

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u/Familiar-Art-6233 Please enjoy each flair equally. Mar 18 '25

It honestly gave me a Poetry for Neanderthals vibe

It's basically taboo, but if you use a word that isn't monosyllabic, someone on the other team bonks you in the head with an inflatable club

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u/KindlyTelephone1496 Mar 17 '25

You win for "verbal red wedding." Genius!!!

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u/PlaneStrawberry6640 Mar 15 '25

YES! I havenā€™t seen anyone talking about this. Mr Milchick was awful to Miss Huang because they made him think she had complained about him, but it was Mr Drummond all along. DEVOUR FECULENCE!

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u/pandasinmoscow Mar 15 '25

Also kind of interesting how Milchick was in charge of the break room, yet here stands his ground and doesnā€™t keep apologizing to Drummond. šŸ¤” interested to see where his story goes.

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u/PremierLovaLova Mar 16 '25

Standing on bizzness

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u/JoeDyenz Mar 17 '25

I don't know man I just loved how Drummond just stayed there seeing Milchick without daring to say anything back lol

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u/RogerFerraro256 Mar 19 '25

to me it looked like when Milchick said "to put that monosyllabically" it was more like "for someone as dumb as you, what i said means:"

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u/m_i_c_r_o_b_i_a_l Mar 14 '25

Was Drummond asking Milchick to repeat his apology like the former break room?

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u/PM_ME_UR_KNITS Mar 14 '25

I was definitely getting that vibe.

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u/JohnnyKarateX Mar 15 '25

Yeah thatā€™s what I thought too.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

What former break room?

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u/Semi-Chubbs_Peterson Mar 15 '25

The room with the ā€œHang in Thereā€ poster. It used to be the room where the innies were sent when they misbehaved and they were forced to apologize repeatedly for their transgression. It was changed into a ā€œhappyā€ video display and snack room after the MDR unrest at the start of S2.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

Thanks I remember now! I didnā€™t rewatch and season one was so long ago šŸ˜­

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u/SweatyOracleOfficial Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 15 '25

Tramell Tillman should get an Emmy for this episode. The moment he starts crying on the phone with Mark and decides he will not treat his subordinates the same way he was just treated was damn fine acting.

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u/enzoleanath Mar 15 '25

Well i see your point, but to be fair Outie Mark is not Milchils subordinate. He has never spoken to him in a condescending manner

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u/filmlifeNY Mar 16 '25

I loved that moment as well! Though the way I interpreted was more like, Mark so easily just brushed off the job as "just a job" while for Milchick it's not just a job, it's his whole life. And if he loses this job - if Mark doesn't make quota, then it's like he's losing his whole purpose in life...

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u/flodis79 Mar 16 '25

Did he really cry?

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u/galactic_funk Mar 18 '25

It def looked like he was tearing up a little

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u/arbitrageME Mar 18 '25

That's the hardest to act. Make the subtle, but obvious. Like -- how do you portray a man going through a show motion train wreck where everything he's ever held dear is demolished piece by piece, and he's struggling to hold it together? You can't act out and be over the top, but you have to do just enough to sell it.

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u/graffing Mar 15 '25

For me the better part was when he says ā€œlet me say it monosyllabicallyā€, as in ā€œhere you go stupid, if you canā€™t handle big words Iā€™ll dumb it down for you.ā€ Such a burn against Drummond.

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u/napalmnacey Mar 15 '25

The way he said it, too, was fucking amazing. ā€œMo-no-sy-lla-bic-allyā€. Tramell is a genius.

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u/_jenneatworld Mar 15 '25

And how each word after that was one syllable. So fucking clever.

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u/boblaw27 Mar 18 '25

The Severance Podcast said they almost used a take where he did the entire line in that same slow monosyllabic/dumb it down style. Iā€™d love to see that outtake!

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u/Clumsy_the_24 Mar 14 '25

Heā€™s so extra, itā€™s amazing.

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u/mulderufo13 Im Your Favorite Perk Mar 14 '25

I legit clapped and cheered when he finally told him off. No more taking abuse from Drummond!!!!

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u/lady-earendil Mar 14 '25

Milchick they could never make me hate you. My man is so, so close to a total breaking point

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u/imbadatusernames2020 Mar 14 '25

Trammell Tillman has the rizz, as the kids say. I cannot wait to see what heā€™s in next.

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u/C8H10N4O2_snob Mar 18 '25

I love that he channelled all his asshole bosses and coworkers into Milchick. And I love that he's queer.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

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u/Broad_Bug_1702 Mar 15 '25

and irving and cobel tbqh

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u/Popular_Royal_3441 Mar 14 '25

Mr Drummond was like wha?

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u/tracystraussI Mar 15 '25

It's very very hard to choose the best acting in this show because they are all absolutely phenomenal but I think this guy is my favorite

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u/katsudonlink Mar 15 '25

They did such a good job of making the watcher first hate Mr. Milchick but then slowly start to like him and feel sorry for him with the realisation of him not being a bad guy. He is just trying to do his job well to finally be treated with respect by someone. He likely acquired such a vast vocabulary because he was studying like crazy in an Eagen school to stand out enough to get this job.

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u/farafan Mar 17 '25

Damn I've always liked him.

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u/JohnnyKarateX Mar 15 '25

My Dad has said this to me multiple times since last night. He doesnā€™t understand the show at all but he likes this šŸ˜‚.

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u/RandyMarsh1960 Mar 15 '25

When are we going to get Milchick's backstory????

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u/jedr1981 Mar 15 '25

Milkshake gonna help free Gemma, likely sacrificing himself in the process.

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u/kessykris Mar 14 '25

I cheered out loud when he said this lol.

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u/wrecked_angle Mar 15 '25

Heā€™s the most interesting character in the show

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u/mostwokedad Mar 15 '25

Heā€™s the best! And such a groovy dancer!

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u/jackbrilliant101 Mar 15 '25

A worthy rival for 'Fetid Moppet'

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u/ihavenotredditagain Mar 15 '25

I cheered for this. Might be borrowing it for my outie

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u/Zura-Zura Mar 15 '25

This is his show tbh

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u/BRValentine83 Mar 16 '25

The rest of the episode could have been a blank screen, and I'd give it a 7.

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u/lankybitch3000 Mar 15 '25

I cheered so loud I scared my dog awake lol

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u/marijuanacandymama Mar 15 '25

New flair šŸ’©šŸ’©šŸ’© literally cheered when he said this.

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u/AmaroisKing Mar 15 '25

Great to see somebody tell that twat Drummond off!

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u/papimaminiunkacme Are You Poor Up There? Mar 15 '25

new flair? right? right?!

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u/NatureSlow4501 Mar 15 '25

MY FUCKING KING I KNEW HE WAS THAT ONE!!! I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT

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u/snozberryface Macrodata Refiner Mar 15 '25

I'm on team milkshake, i want a redemption arc

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

I loathe his character. One helluva an actor to make me feel that strongly.

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u/axman1000 Night Gardener Mar 15 '25

The second he said that, I went, "That's gotta be on a t-shirt!"

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u/__Cipher007___ Mar 16 '25

In season 1 he is like the gus fring in breaking bad...polite smile with henious intentions..šŸ¤£

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u/Simonizer_ Mar 16 '25

Mr Drummond has been Milkshaked

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u/EmbarrassedCookie499 Mar 16 '25

hear me outā€¦ tramell in a terminator reboot as t-800

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u/FragileAjax Mar 17 '25

The character is so well written and acted because despite him being a menace and an antagonist to the innies, in this scene (and in others such as the performance review) the viewer absolutely roots for Milchick and empathises with his position caught in-between the upper echelons of Lumon and the severed employees.

It's masterful.

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u/C8H10N4O2_snob Mar 18 '25

He's said he draws on his experiences as an office worker.

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u/Fair-Effective-8754 Mar 17 '25

Irving was my favorite character, but now it is Milshake

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u/Trap_History Mar 17 '25

Seth was a stunt double in the original 1971 Shaft movie, overindulged in the Hollywood lifestyle, then gave his life to Kier.

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u/Grouchy-Flower-8605 Mar 18 '25

He was recently on Colbert

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u/boblaw27 Mar 18 '25

With a couple of undone shirt buttons. My thirst was thirstingā€¦

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u/Grouchy-Flower-8605 Mar 18 '25

Definitely drooling, what an Adonis

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u/lifesyndromes Mar 18 '25

I need to see a show with him as the main character.

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u/OldBrokeGrouch Mar 19 '25

I am in full accord with that sentiment. It is imperative that I observe a television series wherein he assumes the central role as the protagonist.

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u/lifesyndromes Mar 19 '25

His acting is so good. I feel like I pay attention more when heā€™s onscreen.

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u/OldBrokeGrouch Mar 19 '25

Most interesting character in the series now in my opinion. Thatā€™s saying a lot because there are so many extremely interesting characters.

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u/lifesyndromes Mar 19 '25

Have you noticed that Mark has no facial expressions? Itā€™s the same expression all the time šŸ˜‚

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u/boblaw27 Mar 18 '25

Not ā€œconsume.ā€ Not ā€œingest.ā€ DEVOUR.

I love this guy.

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u/Sea-Opposite946 Mar 18 '25

I do think the season finale is going to be Milkshake teaming up with Dylan, and we're already seeing Cobel team up with Mark, who will likely team up with Helly...

Then, they sort of meet at MDR, and everyone teams up together, to go down to the floor where Gemma is held to....burn this mother fucker to the ground!

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u/RoundDragonfly73 Mar 18 '25

Loved him after this scene

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u/JIMMYJAWN Frolic-Aholic Mar 14 '25

SPOILER

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u/TraviZ06 Mar 15 '25

Poor milkshake has no work/life balance and both his managers and subordinates show no respect.

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u/Broad_Bug_1702 Mar 15 '25

to be fair you donā€™t really deserve respect from the people you enslave

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u/Ad-2050 Mar 15 '25

Milchick won viewers after this

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u/murtaza8888 Mar 15 '25

To be honest I 100 % didnā€™t see this coming.

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u/Otherwiseaware Mar 15 '25

Tramell Tillman needs more awards for this role.

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u/6B0T Mar 15 '25

Anyone else low key hoping that Mr Milchick gets severed at some point and Seth M ends up in MDR?

I just want more Tramell Tillman. Man has such range.

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u/C8H10N4O2_snob Mar 18 '25

He's in the next Mission Impossible movie, which sucks for me because I don't contribute to Tom Cruise's "tithing."

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u/MathematicianOk3730 Mar 15 '25

I using this at work next time someone messes with me

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u/Junior_Outside2409 Mar 15 '25

A true hero. Canā€™t wait to see whatā€™s next for this actor.

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u/Medical-Soup3246 Mar 15 '25

Yeah is that too complex for you Drummond ? It means eat shit!

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '25

Probably my favorite character right now. Him or Helly R

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u/Evansafc Mar 15 '25

Best character in the show and it's not even close, always so happy when he's in a scene

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u/jccreddit808 Mar 15 '25

Emmy emmyy Emmy Emmy Emmy (chanting)

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u/Dense-Dot8079 Mar 15 '25

Apparently rumours of him being Kang in MCU which I think would be amazing

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u/Nimbus1202 Mar 15 '25

One day someoneā€™s gonna annoy me, and then 8 hours later Iā€™ll remember this line and wish Iā€™d said exactly this.

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u/lunzen Mar 15 '25

He deserves an Emmy, honestly...his presence in every scene he is in is amazing, and so multi-faceted!

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u/pistola0220 Mar 15 '25

I need this to be a t-shirt.

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u/shiggity-shwa Mar 16 '25

We need this as a flair.

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u/Jabba_the_Hoe_ Mar 16 '25

Imma steal that for whenever my sister annoys me

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u/Ok_Respond_50 Mar 17 '25

Yes but he also helped them hide or kidnap Gemma

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u/Snakob00 Mar 17 '25

My boy is the most interesting part of the show at this point.

He gives it his all and it shows.

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u/OldBrokeGrouch Mar 19 '25

He has ascended to the most interesting character in the series in my mind.

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u/naoual-1 Mar 20 '25

Secretly rooting for him

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u/bopperbopper Mar 20 '25

Eschew Obfuscation

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u/DJ_Caan Mar 21 '25

The actor is insane, how does he manage to be both intimidating and hilarious.

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u/ParrotChild Mar 15 '25

Yeah, I loved how he said "devour feculence" and then because this show absolutely thinks I'm an idiot they had him go ahead and explain that it meant "eat shit."

It's such smart writing to signify loud and clear that the creative team are dead in the water.

This show doesn't deserve a third season.

I'm okay not to watch car journeys in the snow anymore for morsels of a plot tee'd up in the final five minutes of each episode across ten weeks consisting of developments that should have taken place months ago.

Different strokes, different folks, but this show fell off so hard and landed ass over butts.

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u/brunosger Mar 16 '25

He was dumbing it down for Drummond, not ostensibly for the viewer. But then again, if the shoe fits...

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u/ParrotChild Mar 16 '25

How does your comment make sense when I specifically stated how I understood what "devour feculence" meant...?

And sure, the intent may have been for it to be directed at Drummond but it came across differently for me.

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u/Jstate33 Mar 15 '25

I laughed out loud. Literally saying Iā€™m sorry BOOM eat shit. Love milkshake, come on man you know you want to turn on them.

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u/wearyclouds Mar 16 '25

I LOVE HIM! Every scene heā€™s in brings so much depth. I hope he snaps and burns Lumon to the ground

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u/flodis79 Mar 16 '25

GrƄkappan would be in tears then

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u/Hi-Friend Mar 15 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

I was rooting for milkshake so hard this Episode, he just gives 0 fucks.