re: Severance Season 2 Discussion (Spoilers)

What a fricking episode....


Going to be interesting as to why Gemma voluntarily went into the Lumon project and got severed. I'm guessing it has something to do with the her inability to carry a baby to term or even conceive

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Wonder if Lumon was preventing her getting pregnant with those shots.

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Have to think Lumon engineered the miscarriage(s) and failed attempts, given the doc's presence in the medical office they visited. I wonder if the doc survived after FAFO. What an nightmarishly creepy role.

I don't think the plan has been for Gemma to die, even though Drummond said the doc wouldn't see her again after Cold Harbor. Sounded like the doc was laying the groundwork for her to stay with him.

Goodness gracious, so much to say about episode, down to:

- realizing that Gemma is there by choice (even if Lumon coerced her) and that she wants to reunite with Mark

- each Gemma innie's total existence being limited to a world of pain, discomfort, and some type of relationship with the doctor

- the weirdness of the testing floor room where the innies' every move is watched

- the visual juxtapositions of Mark and Gemma as they grew apart

- Mark's stunned countenance when he realized the police were outside his door

- Milchick intercepting Casey in the hallway and turning her around

- the realization on Gemma's face when she finds herself back on the testing floor

- the trauma of Gemma's miscarriage

- the normalcy of Mark/Gemma/Devon/Ricken eating lunch

- the dawning realization that all of Kier is Lumon and wondering how Mark and Gemma wound up there in the first place

I could go on ... I'm stilled stunned.

Another little test, in the Christmas room the creepy doctor says I love you and Gemma doesn’t say anything so he has to nudge her. That was also the same interaction that Gemma and Mark ever had together.

They’re always doing little tests to see if the severance technology works. It seems like it works as intended so I’m wondering what they’re still worried about.

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Another little test, in the Christmas room the creepy doctor says I love you and Gemma doesn’t say anything so he has to nudge her. That was also the same interaction that Gemma and Mark ever had together.

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Not quite. Yes, both are related I guess, but Mark not saying "I love you too" was only because he was distracted while working. Gemma seems to hate the Lumon doctor and didn't want to say it back.

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Yes, both are related I guess

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Yeah I guess they’re related because they say the exact same words.

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I'm in the minority. This episode sucked.

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how can someone that has watched Severance believe that episode sucked?

can you explain your reasoning?

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I had another thought about the work they’re doing, it looked like in the actual “real world” the workers were taking scary memories and putting them in the boxes. When they trained Helena they said to look for scary numbers.

Maybe the scary numbers are actually scary memories that are being deleted?

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Possibly. But if that's true, what is Mark doing? Eliminating Gemma's scary memories? If so, why wouldn't they just have Gemma do it herself like the others?

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I'm in the minority. This episode sucked.

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Nice shiny hook there

That was a historically great hour of television