Severance

Great episode, liked how the egg was 'severed' into several parts and Milkshake has sass! It seems to be building to another explosive finale - but how long to S3 :(
 
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Didn't get the ending, where and why did Irving go, what was all the talk about Walkens character driving people and being goon? Did I miss something that made that relevant?
 
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ChroniC said:
Didn't get the ending, where and why did butt go, what was all the talk about Walkens character driving people and being goon? Did I miss something that made that relevant?
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Thats only half the stuff I didn't understand this week! I'm hoping next week explains things in simple terms that don't require watching Youtube explainer, otherwise i'm out for S3.

I don't even know how normal people are watching this and making sense of it each week tbh.


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ChroniC said:
Didn't get the ending, where and why did butt go, what was all the talk about Walkens character driving people and being goon? Did I miss something that made that relevant?
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I have started watching these after the show - it really helps and there is always something i will have missed. It really does add to the Severance experience, i have watched them all after each episode.


Buuuuuuuuut, it seems Burt was a 'driver' for Lumon ie a hitman. He would drive his victim to the woods > sever > his innie would do the kill > his outie would drive home.

Lumon said, Irving was been 'taken care of' ie Burt was sent to 'drive' aka kill him. Burt told Irv to go for a drive, he was to be the hitman on Irving. But instead, because true love wins, Burt drove him to the train station and told him to get off at a random station so he/Lumon couldn't find him.
 
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Interesting clue there in s02e09 when Cobel told Mark that if he has completed his quota the his wife was dead.

I dont think she meant physically dead, I`m thinking much more likely the outtie version of her mind / memories would be permanently erased.
 
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dave28 said:
Interesting clue there in s02e09 when Cobel told Mark that if he has completed his quota the his wife was dead.

I dont think she meant physically dead, I`m thinking much more likely the outtie version of her mind / memories would be permanently erased.
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I've read theories that say that the severence is a way to transfer the Eagons and rich people into new bodies. Maybe completing the file would erase one person and only leave the other.
 
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ChroniC said:
Didn't get the ending, where and why did butt go, what was all the talk about Walkens character driving people and being goon? Did I miss something that made that relevant?
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it makes sense tbh walken is a gangster in many films and well known for playing a gangster. he has explained before in his previous life he was a wrong un at dinner. thought the episode was boring tbh. at first i thought why would they add a gangster person to this show...or is it as hes also a bit weird odd..now it makes sense.
 
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Good episode.
Nearly everyone getting an ending of sorts, I'm sure next week will throw it all upside down.

I'm deffo gonna rewatch Series 1 soon. Knowing all we kinda know now.
 
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Id still be fine if we find out that there's a kind of "matrix" vibe to some degree.
All the Minimalism and extreme colour palettes and frankly weird stuff :P
THough am i equally as happy that everything is 100% real.
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I always thought there might be some element of this since the ORTBO episode.

For a start, there was a TV and video player just on the top o lf a cliff with seemingly no power source. Also the creepy clone guides pointing everywhere was very weird. None of them went up to them and they looked very computer generated in a stylised way (almost like the opening credits).
 
Season 1 too distant a memory for me to be sure whether I liked it more or less than this one :cry:

I'm really enjoying this season though. Best thing I've watched since Better Call Saul.
 
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Didn't get the ending, where and why did Irving go, what was all the talk about Walkens character driving people and being goon? Did I miss something that made that relevant?
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Yea I wasn't sure if I missed something pretty big about Burt, when was ANY of that talked about or his work there or whatever. Its like they missed a whole episode explaining or even hinting at that life in any way.
 
Looking forward to the finale on Friday.....its gonna be good ! ("Not-so-good" will be the huge cliff hanger ending with likely at least 2 years to wait for it to be resolved :( )
 
Just watched the finale. I'm in two minds about it (ha..).


Very interesting observation I saw on Reddit:

Cold Harbor was about testing whether the barrier could hold and a severed person not feel anything their outie would have felt. Of all people, it was iMark passing that test and feeling nothing for Gemma at the stairwell door in the end.
 
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Good stuff. I’m vaguely hopeful they’ve got a tidy narrative arc over x amount of series and won’t artificially drag it out for the sake of it, especially given it’s impossible to now rehash anything we’ve had so far. S3 will be markedly different!
 
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