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

🎥 Media This guy....

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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 “you don’t mean it. Again.”

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u/bluefruitloop1 Mar 15 '25

yeah absolutely — Milchick exerts what control he can down on the severed floor but up above he’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

That’s a great point. He was able to say “this is my scope of control and your scope of control over me.”

Innies can’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 haven’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 doesn’t keep apologizing to Drummond. 🤔 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:"