Severance 2x01 Reaction
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Is Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul not the golden age? :(
Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul + Attack on Titan + Avatar / Korra was an awesome age too. I completely agree. https://imgur.com/a/lm-reactions-2020-2024-specials-KA1vod6
Powerful scene between Dylan and Irv. This episode really does well at reminding us of the life / death nature of being severed. When you no longer work at the company, you no longer eperience life anymore. Milchick is absolutely threatening them when he says it's their choice if they don't want to come back. Dylan is essentially talking Irv down from committing suicide, even to the point of grabbing him before he "jumps". The whole life / death theme is going to play a fairly major role in this series I think..
Whoa. The animated Lumon building is voiced by Keanu Reeves.
Lmao I was shocked when I heard Keanu
writers did a good job of making helly/helena ambiguous but the smoking gun is that close up scene of her struggling to find her pc’s switch. also irving is clearly suspicious of her after the “night gardener” comment given he only told dylan about his outie’s paintings of the testing floor
I think it's Helena.. However, the only thing that's massively in favour of it being Helly is her comment about how the innies and outies are different from one another. I understand Helly's motivation for that kind of comment, but not Helena's.. Unless Helena simply learned Helly's character incredibly well and can also act really well
My theories: 1. Helly is her outie and is assigned to find out what Mark, Dylan and Irving know. 2. Lumen reforms and public celebrity are lies, orchestrated to let our main characters feel safe and talk openly about their experiences and knowledge. 3. Helena turned her speech from the Innie by portraying work as imprisonment from which her Innie freed her, thus there was no public scandal. 4. The work at Lumen is a large experiment to investigate the consequences of Severance, thus the low safety regulations. 5. Gemma / Ms. Casey was unhappy in the marriage. Now two scenarios: She was infatuated with the Severance procedure and staged a car crash with Lumen to ultimately escape the marriage. Other idea: Gemma got into a car accident, resulting in damage to her brain, and Lumen took the opportunity to use her as a test subject.
I haven’t seen anyone say it. But Lola. He got that statue thing from a project before Helly and everything. It was when he first joined the severance floor, he refined a file super fast and well and became kind of the golden child of the team and he got that cube thing. Hopefully that helps. It’s not anything more sinister. Coupdnt believe your still worried about that. Haha. Love the reaction.
The creators went to great effort to hide the dialogue when Dylan explains how he got it to Helly, so maybe there's more to it. I could see us maybe getting a flashback at a certain point where we see how and why Mark was able to refine the file so fast.
Pretty decent and straightforward welcome back/setup episode, setting up a number of new mysteries to unfold for the rest of the season. Excited to see more of the outie stuff now we've expanded past only showing Mark's.
Man that camera work at the beginning was stunning, I'd love to see a behind the scenes of that whole sequence. Also, the actor who plays Mark W also played Phoebe's dad! you probably know him from that
it took 5 months to shoot that scene, and included Mark running on treadmills with a green screen behind him in certain points
I think the miss Casey scene was showing they in fact are working on perfect workers or or different types of people. Which was one of the most popular theories that they were refining chips for pure severance workers. I’m also confident everything milkshake said was a lie. The photo is Dwight D . Eisenhower’s parade through Brazil with them edited in, and there’s no way he waited 5 months before getting cobel’s name changed from the computer with how much it clearly irritates him.
Yeah at this point we should know better than to trust anything that comes out of Milkshake's mouth
I'm just gonna throw this out there but what if miss Huang is mark and Casey's daughter? The same medical professionals who pronounced ms Casey dead could pronounce a baby stillborn. And there seemed to be something intentional about the way mark and miss Huang look at each other.
You know, the thought crossed my mind
Props to the writers. I'm 50/50 on whether Helly is a mole or she's embarrased to be an Eagan around her innie friends. It could go either way. Edit: Upon further review, it looked like she fumbled around trying to find her computer's power button. I'm on Team She's-Helena now.
My biggest reason I think it’s Helly is because she ran out of the elevator. If it was Helena she would’ve had the night gardener story in mind and not have of ran out because it didn’t match her story. It only makes sense to me if helly ran out cuz the last thing she remembers was getting ran at and tackled and then made up the night gardener story on the spot when asked what she did. Also night gardener sounds like a complete inny thing to say. And it seemed she was nervous when Irving asked if there was night gardeners which would be weird for Helena cuz she knows night gardeners do exists so wouldn’t be worried about that defence. But for Helly she doesn’t know they exist so could think she just got busted if they don’t. And if it was Helana why wouldn’t she tell them what Helly actually saw? It wouldn’t help them in any way and if anything would help them believe they are hero’s on the outside. I think only Helly would have lied because she doesn’t want them to view her as a slave owner basically.
Looking forward to another civil war here about whether it's Helena or Helly. I'll just say I have zero doubt in my mind that it's Helena, there's too many clues sprinkled in, this is not our rebellious queen. And yeah, I think a lot of people forgot that the only source we have of it being 5 months was Milchick saying so, which can not be trusted. He would not give them that information unless he wanted them to believe it. Anyway I love that we're back and heavily speculating about what is going on, hopefully we got to see the outside world next episode.
I just like that we can all freely discuss. No spoilers for anyone :D
They showed the five numbers bins in season 1 as well. Idk why it's five, but under each one there are four stats called WO, FC, DR, and MA, which are definitely the four tempers (Woe, Frolic, Dread, and Malice). So it seems that the numbers elicit these different emotions, and they have to group the numbers so that each bin has the correct balance of each temper. So my first thought with the end of the episode is that he's unknowingly fine-tuning her traits on the testing floor or something, idk.
And "ITNO. 25.00 (BUILD)" so this might be 25th iteration of clone(?) Ms. Casey? The screen also shows a bunch of vitals (heart rate, body temperature, etc.) which tracks with her being "powered down" or in a stasis/coma or something. I think they walked a pretty beautiful tightrope between Helly/Helena this episode. Wonder how long they'll keep that mystery going? Seems like they'll have to reveal their hand pretty quickly if they show what happened with the Outies. I trust the show to make the right choice for the story, but personally, I hope it's Helly (even if I don't understand why they'd ever send he back down there). The character in conflict with the truth of her existence imo is more interesting than the subterfuge.
A lot of people think it’s Helana back in there and not helly, but I think it’s still helly and there is very strong arguments for either.
I’d like to hear a strong argument for it being Helly. Cause I think it’s weak at best. And the only real thing I think is they are trying to trick us so it might be Helly but in “administrative” mode or something. But other than that I don’t see Helly in this character at all. Even tells mark he isn’t married to Gemma it’s his outie.
The one thing about the image of Ms. Casey that makes my mind spin is 'build no. 25'?? What is she, a robot? Or is that a version number, aka the amount of times they've altered her mind or wiped her memories?
I’m hyped for this, but with Severance airing now, Invincible coming out in a month, The Last of Us coming out in April, One Piece season 2 coming out in late summer, I’m making peace that we will never have an Andor reaction
+1 for Andor
I like the thumbnail is the last frame of the episode lol
Praise Kier for these reactions.
Waffle party for everyone!
Hey girls, any chance we could get a Ranking show's we've watched part 2? theres so much stuff to add and im super curious.
Please enjoy all seasons equally