FIRST TIME WATCHING: Severance S2E10

I do not know how to ask for help, but I only see a running timer where the show should be. I purchased season 2 of Severance but only see Natalie’s reaction & a screen with a timer on it?? What am I doing wrong?

1. The Cold Harbour outfit she put on was the one she wore the last time she saw Mark. 2. The scene we saw of Mark and the crib was him taking it apart and being angry. People confuse that with him putting it together. He was taking it apart by himself while his wife mourned the miscarriage. That was the rememberence of that scene. Her feeling sad and guilty for the loss, and Mark being angry and sad on his own as he took it out on the crib. The final memory was her taking the crib apart like she remembered him doing. And Lumon was hoping that she would complete it without emotion or remembering the memory. 3. Yes, the numbers dictated the feeling and memory of each room. (some rooms mirrored the flashback episode scenes where we saw of them together.) so the numbers told them about the crib and the song playing.

DEVS would be my pick for a similar show. One season, a complete story, and just as trippy. It’s from the guy that made Ex Machina and Annihilation. It also has one of the stars of Parks and Rec in a lead role. Lots of cool things in the finale but my two favourites are Emile the goat being the wiliest of his tribe (and guiding Gemma’s soul to Kier) and the thought of someone severing their brain to get work life balance and Lumon making them dance and play music all day. Mark and Helly running off together at the end is weirdly satisfying. It doesn’t hurt that I love that song and they are so happy. In the Orpheus myth Orpheus turns back and Eurydice is dragged back into the underworld. Here Mark gets her out before he turns around, he’s probably the one who will get pulled back to the testing floor but he did right by his outie and by Gemma and deserves to have the possibility of being with Helly

personally if i was innie mark i would of at least explained to gemma what was going on before going with helly instead of leaving her devastated at the stairwell door, but i understand that's not nearly as dramatic 😭

Westworld would be a great watch too!

For the same level of quality on Apple Tv you have to look at The Crowded Room

... also, of course Lumon also has a dept of severed employees that do nothing but practice for marching band (and probably other things). The actual band is the SC band which I loved 😁. I have a long history of attending SC games with my family through the years in my 60 years on this earth lol.

LOST, Westworld, and From are all mind bending shows with varying degrees of quality at various points lmao, and I would love a reaction to all of them

Surprisingly Quentin Tarantino-esque ending shot there lol But also wow, how incredibly fucked for everybody 😭 Gemme escaped and she got her (short) reunion with Mark, and Mark S also got to run away with Helly at the end into the never ending corridors of Lumon 😅 Wonder if they’re just gonna live out in the tunnels with other rebellious departments like Mammalian Nurturables, and season 3 is gonna be Mark in Lumon and Gemma trying to get him out 👀 We just gotta create android doubles and transfer the innies memories into them to let them live out there life, duh 🫡

Rode the emotions with you on this one. Shockingly good TV, Westworld would be amazing.!

Man I love this show, and the finale rips the emotions out of me every damn time I watch it. There are just so many emotional angles to what is going on. And watching you react to it made it hit even harder. Mark S did what he promised... he got Gemma to the stairwell door. Of course he is going to choose Helly over Gemma. He doesn't know Gemma at all (just Ms Casey). On a side note... the pistol for the goat was a single shot bolt pistol. Mark could not use it to shoot anyone again once it was discharged, and being that the bolt is only six inches or so, the chances of it going through Drummon and into Mark were slim to none (maybe you were having flashbacks from TLoU lol...). Speaking of TLoU, When innie Mark decided to go with Helly after getting Gemma out the door, it also made me think of Ellies and Riley's last moments together.... "We don't quit... whether it's two minutes, or two days. We don't give that up, I don't want to give that up..." There is literally no reason for him to go through the stairwell door. Innie Mark want's to spend as much time as possible, and every second he has left with Helly. No matter how short or long that may be.

Westworld or Black Mirror are excellent follow-ups to this

I still think that LOST is a show that reminds me of Severed it has so many twists and turns, and each episode ends with a WTF moment, I really think watching the early seasons of LOST would be fun..

Great reaction as always, Nat! One of the particularly fascinating things this show is teasing out is how hard it is to truly view other people as full, complex individuals with their own hopes and dreams, when making decisions that impact them. By internalizing that conflict, literally with innie copies of people with their own complete consciousnesses, feelings, wants, and needs, it's much much harder to dismiss the impacts. The scene on the balcony between Outie Mark and Innie Mark was a really exceptional back and forth that showed even Outie Mark, who ostensibly cares about his innie, views his own wants as the obviously more important, and the scene asks the audience if they agree. Helly restates the theme a bit in her speech to C&M "they give us half a life and think we won't fight for it." Just great stuff. Edit just to add: When Milchick finally turns against Lumon it has a chance to be one of the best enemy-to-ally character turns ever IMO, the character is absolutely mesmerizing to watch, and Tillman adds so much depth from his micro-expressions, especially this season.

And now we wait. The suspense of what can happen in the 3rd season is already stressing a lot of fans. Here's some of the more prevailing theories out there about some of the questions that's still unanswered. 1) The Severance procedure stemmed from Cobel which makes sense because she's had a lot of trauma since childhood. Especially the part of losing her mother and not being to see her all those time. She made it so for certain moments people can forget those traumas and live a better life. 2) The show is all about trauma and suppressing it instead of accepting it and healing/learning from it. They specifically chose Mark and Gemma because of the loss of their child. It's one of the worst trauma anyone could go through, doubly with Mark thinking he lost his wife as well. Lumon being a company basically wants to sell Severance to the public. That's why it's called the Testing Floor like in other companies testing a product. This was mentioned back in Season 1 with the involvement of some of the higher ranking government people out there such as that Senator and his wife using it to forget about the pain of giving birth. 3) The rooms Gemma was in were everyday inconveniences that Severance is trying to address such as going to the dentist, fear of flying, writing Christmas thank you cards, etc. They're trying to make a chip that you can activate anytime you feel discomfort that you don't want to feel. Then there's the part of Cold Harbor basically trying to create a blank person for maybe Military or other purposes where they just take orders and not feel anything. As always the end of the series gave answers but brought up more questions. The show is really good at balancing those two which is why it hooks a lot of people into watching it. Can't wait for what the 3rd season brings.

can we get Loki season 2 in the next pole? you gotta watch it eventually season 2 is really important for lokis character arc and the upcoming avengers films

Great reaction and observation. I initially thought the doctor said that, he was talking about killing all the innies. However it does make more sense that he was talking about all the versions of Gemma.

Mr milchick running was not scripted 😅

One of the weird thoughts I had watching this finale was if it was a female main character and she had both an innie and outie love interest, it could lead to a 50 First Dates situation. I can’t imagine the ethical debate of getting pregnant and it being a kid you a) don’t remember having and b) it’s by the partner of the other you. That’s a huge conundrum that I don’t know if they’ll ever explore.

Happy Monday Nat. Hope you're feeling a wee bit better. Looking forward to Feature Friday this week 🤗 🦕🦖

The outfit Gemma wears is what she wore the night of her accident.

How's your hip Nat?

What do we even do until season 3 lol?? Thanks, Nat, great reaction series!

Hi Nat, I hope your hips a feeling a bit better today. If they are still very painfull you may need to slow down the amount of content you put out for us, as your health is more important than us.. just a bit anyway 😂

So excited for this episode