FIRST TIME WATCHING: Severance S2E6

As established in the first scene when Helly was able to name a state but nothing else, they have procedural and practical memory, but no personal or episodic memory.

I think it’s crazy that she just glosses over the fact that Mark was also sexually assaulted, as though this man didn’t get invasion of the body snatched. He didn’t get to watch a TV show and vaguely think that the character may not be who they say they are only to then claim that he knew it the whole time after the obvious is finally revealed.

Am I the only one who saw that Helly was accepting of the notion that Mark "shared vessels" when she thought it meant with Ms. Casey during a wellness session? It only really impacted her when Mark clarified that it was with her outie, Helena.

Nat...do you think Tyler hugs Natalia?

I just started the episode but Natalie has no empathy that Mark was also SA'd. It's pretty uncool that was was tricked into a situation he wasn't aware of.

The innies are subjected to so much inhuman treatment, I want them to have love. I'd be so pissed if I was told the 'me' who put me in here is also banning me from loving who I love because they're in love with someone I don't really connect with. You're right, severance is so messed up. Not fair to anyone. But I'm rooting for Mark S/Helly and innie love in general 🥺

Great episode. In season one Dylan explains that he beats the break room by thinking of the husbands of all the married women his outie sleeps with. In the first episode of this season Milchick calls Harmony a sadist who pursued both Mark’s innie and outie in the hope of creating a thruple. That’s to say the innies know about things like sex and the writing on this show is so clever. Dylan is starting a relationship with a married women and Helena not Harmony is pursuing both Marks. The diner scene is crazy but the way Helena deliberately disrespects Gemma and twists the knife is truly sadistic.

Mr. Drummond breaking into Irving’s home and going through his stuff on the night he has dinner plans with Burt is rather suspicious timing. And I don’t think protesters threw blood on Burt when he left the office, I think he lied and something bad happened at Lumon. On another note, if anyone was like me and wondering why Fields seemed so familiar it might be because he’s played by John Noble a.k.a. Lord Denethor from LotR

This season is so freaking crazy! On another note, I want to repeat again that The Crowded Room also on Apple TV is top tier in it's own way, same high quality production design, the script, acting. It's an easy 10/10 and I would love everyone to give it a shot it deserves as much praise as Severance.

First off love the channel. But on this show I particularly please let us know when the Apple Tv logo appears after the recap. Please I don't have the recaps, and the intro starts here does not help since there is a few minutes of cold open before that Love your reaction to Severance.

It was established in the first episode that the innies retain general knowledge, just not personal details. It's not a plot hole.

I don’t trust Burt’s outie… yeah I BET you didn’t work at Lumon 20 years ago 😑 Also the fact that Mark ordered TWO fortune cookies, only ate one, and we didn’t get to see either fortune is kinda driving me nuts 😂 probably something to say there though, two fortunes but only one gets priority etc 👀

I really liked the flames behind Burt during the dinner scene. Evokes a disquieting image.

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On rewatch, this is becoming one of my favorite episodes of the season. So many wild moments; Milchick's performance review processing, Mark and Helly working through the events of the ORTBO, Mark and Helena having a scene in the Chinese restaurant that gets ever crazier the more you think about it, and the entire time at Burt and Fields' house with Irving. Just really great stuff. And what's going on with Burt's timeline/history with Lumon? So many open questions and still the creative team is able to open up a few new ones lol. When Nat says "Milchick, what kind of field trip are you on?" close to the beginning when he goes into the storage area to work on his paper-clipping, I thought that was really, really spot on. Everybody in the show is on a bit of a mental/emotional field trip this episode after the physical field trip from Episode 4.

Nat, not sure if you already watched Sinners, but FYI there are multiple post-credit scenes.

The whole idea of what the innies know is kinda explained by the five questions in the input survey. They know nothing specific about their lives like the color of their mother’s eyes or their name but Helly knew the state of Delaware. She got a perfect score because the procedure is designed so you remember general info about the world but not specific things about your own life. So that explains why they don’t have baby-level intelligence.

Hi Nat, looking forward to hopefully getting some answers to the many questions from this show, it's been a fun ride so far but I need some answers lol..... 🤯

Andor starts this week! And Sinners too! And more Severance! Goated week ngl

On a different topic unrelated to Severance, which is always a good show, I was hoping a reactor was going to react to Sinners sometime soon since it came out digital. Glad to see it's up for Friday, can't wait to rewatch that movie once again.