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actually the reveal that there was no timeskip at all is hysterical. milchick really spent that whole weekend going all over town firing people, hiring people, putting together insane fruit baskets, and serving cunt in his motorcycle helmet. then at the orders of the board he had to very quickly fire the people he hired, rehire the people he fired, commission an oil painting for the severed floor lobby, redecorate the break room, and put together an award-winning claymation corporate apology video designed to showcase the new innie perks and reforms that don't exist as well as that one time helena eagan's innie sucked face with the innie whose outie his ex-boss is obsessed with. where is HIS waffle party

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obsessed with the Helena and Irving parallel and what it says about the aspects of our identity we think are fundamental (but aren't)...

Like Outie Irving assumes his Innie is just as radically anti-Lumon as he is. He assumes his hatred of Lumon is something ingrained in his personality! That's why he stays up at night drinking coffee and making paintings, because he hopes that when his innie dreams about the testing floor, he'll say "okay bet" and start exploring. That's what Outie Irving would do, after all. But he miscalculated! His hatred of Lumon isn't inherent--- his desire for meaning and art and spirituality is inherent. That's what his hatred for Lumon is built on. But in a world where there's no meaning outside of Lumon propaganda, of COURSE his innie would become ridiculously devoted to the company.

And Helena!! She is the corporation, that's her whole identity. She presumably assumed that Helly would be just as pro-Lumon as she is. But she miscalculated too! Her devotion to the company isn't inherent, her headstrong and entitled nature is what's inherent! And in a world where she's denied any agency whatsoever, that manifests as rebellion.

It's the same dynamic flipped on its head. They both sent their innies in there with opposite intentions--- one to take down the company, one feed the company's expansion--- only to realize that rebellion and devotion aren't inherent characteristics. Their innies have become the exact opposite of their outie selves, while still being exactly the same!! Because even though your personality is inherent, the values you hold are determined circumstantially. OUGH IT'S SO GOOD.

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screaming.

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congratulations to mark scout for somehow getting every employee at lumon to completely obsess over him. they are stalking him at restaurants they are living in his basement they are baking him cookies they are seducing him on work retreats they are doing experimental brain surgery on him they are lying about being lactation experts just to get close to his sister. and he’s truly just a guy. what can’t he do

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helena, waking up in the elevator with her thighs sore and her underwear damp as hell: i should follow him to a nearby town restaurant and crash his dinner plans and mention his dead wife by a wrong name

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they’re growing on me

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I hope Devon leaves her loser sellout failhusband for the slightly unhinged fugitive brain surgeon living in her brother's basement

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Dylan’s a deadbeat, Mark’s dead, Helena’s insane, Burt’s evil, Milchick’s slipping, Irving’s fucked, we are COOKED but at least Devon is bisexual.

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cobel missing severance floor sex AND next-door brain surgery oh she's gonna be so mad

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Was it different with me?

Severance— Season 2, Episode 6: "Attila" (2025)

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there was obviously so much happening this episode. however, i don’t see enough people discussing milchick’s scene.

the way he literally is practicing using paper clips and forcing himself to dumb down his language. actually heartbreaking. his hands shaking, his voice breaking.

it’s that moment right before deconstruction of your religion where you can feel it starting to slip through your fingers, so you clench them into fists and double down on your commitment to it because without it, your entire worldview falls apart. and he doesn’t want all his years of service to lumon to have been wasted.

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you quit your dangerous espionage brain surgery procedure. you go out to eat. you run into your boss. she disrespects your dead-not-dead wife. it pisses you off so much you resume your dangerous espionage brain surgery procedure. the first thing you remember is fucking your boss. the second thing you remember is hallucinating your dead-not-dead wife while fucking your boss. your sister interrupts you to tell you about the woman who only existed to get pregnant she had a crush on. you have a stroke and die. rip mark scout king you were having a hell of a day

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“we shared vessels” is up there but funniest fucking shot of the episode is that cut to the empty MDR work station. dylan busy homewrecking his own marriage. irving wrecking someone else’s. mark and helly in the ninth circle of a four dimensional situationship. Seth out of office for the day on an official paperclip management seminar. Idk why reddit is so pressed about finishing Cold Harbour that shit is NOT getting done

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if YOU'RE having sex at work, and I'M having sex at work, WHO IS REFINING THE MACRODATA?

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they say a dog is a man's best friend. and a woman's best friend? well it's the walking corpse of course