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have i mentioned how much i love this show again

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New from Lumon! Are you tired of small inconveniences? How about big, scary experiences? No worries! With our new and improved Severance+ technology, your Innie can manage all of life's big and small challenges. From writing all those thank-you notes for your in-laws to going to the dentist for you! Imagine! A world where you check in for your flight and then you're at your destination, no anxiety or sickness at all!

Get the new Severance+ chip from lumon, and you'll never be in pain again!

(but else someone will only *ever* be in pain. Don't think about that too long.)

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I just don't buy into the narrative that innies and outties are two distinct people. That feels like lumon propaganda to me. These bitches are putting themselves in a prison of their own creation and nobody is suffering for it but them. They wake up every morning and choose to subject themselves to corporate abuse because they are all deeply fucked up in their own unique ways. They are not creating a new person to torture bc severance isn't a boring show

[februarywhite]

helena left that conversation thinking she totally nailed it

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no dentist's office. no writing christmas cards. no taking flights. a world where every pain or minor annoyance is dismissed as your consciousness is replaced with a different version of you. a life without pain, or agitation, or monotony. and conversely, a life full of only that for every version of you who experiences the chores you wished to evade.

forget skipping work or school or birth. try everything. never experience anything that expires a negative emotion. the ideal consciousness sold as a product for the price of a version of you that you'll never meet.

but it doesn't matter. you carry the hurt down with you. in your hands, in your mind, your mouth. the grief mark experiences carried into his innie, gemma feeling the pain she experienced in the rooms even after she's been severed.

it doesn't matter. you carry it with you.

[februarywhite]

do we think any macrodata is being refined this week or….

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"came back wrong" but it's from work

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top 10 things patients love to hear from their brain surgeons

“I’m better at it now”

[februarywhite]

maybe love transcends severance

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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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not only did irvin die for helly r he died doing what she loved doing most (trying to kill her outie)

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// Cold Harbor

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I’ve think I’ve figured it out

I think I know what MDR is doing and what lumon is doing and where this story is going to go

It’s Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice dies and goes to hell, Orpheus descends down there and gets the chance to bring her back, but loses her forever because he turns round to look at her.

If mark is Orpheus, and Gemma is Euridyce, and the severed floor is hell, that means that by going down there as a severed employee Mark got a chance to bring Gemma back, but he’s going to lose it by looking back to find her. By reintegrating.

Gemma died. Like actually died. She wasn’t brain dead and intercepted by lumon. She died, mark identified the body. Somewhere between that and the cremation lumon took her.

Lumon is trying to raise the dead, presumably to bring back Kier (who’s body im sure is being preserved in some horrid cult place of worship somewhere in the depths of lumon) and has been pretty successful so far. At getting the body back. The mind is trickier, and that’s what MDR is doing. They’re tidying up brain waves, trying to bring a persons memory and conciousness back.

That’s why the files expire. The person gets too dead, their brain gets too damaged, and there’s no point trying anymore.

Gemma has been the most successful so far. She’s not just physically alive, but her brain is functioning too. Her position as wellness counsellor was an experiment to see how she interacts with other people, to see how well her consciousness is recovering

Coldharbour is her last file. When it’s done, she’ll be completely back and lumon will have successfully brought a dead person fully back to life, a major milestone for them. If it expires, she’ll be gone forever

Mark reintegrated. He’s going to be suspicious of lumon, suspicious of the work, and so caught up in looking for Gemma he won’t finish cold harbour

He looked back. So he’s going to lose her forever

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i drew one everyday i couldn’t see him

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helena eagan whose destiny from birth was to be the future serene and placid face of lumon, who never once wavered from that path, even getting severed to prove her commitment to kier's vision, watching her innie be imperfect, impulsive, unsure, freely and openly affectionate and then receive affection and concern in turn with no strings attached.......yeah baby i'd rewind that security footage too

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Obsessed with what they're doing with Milchick this season. He's a guy with a job. An evil job. He just got a big promotion. He sees himself as a reformer. But not like, systematically, he just like, smiles a lot and plans little activities. He's being undermined by a teenage intern. He's gracious about The Board's racism. He carries elaborate fruit baskets on his motorcycle while working through the weekend. He averages firing more than one person per week. He dresses great. He almost got the CEO's daughter killed. He delivers even the most outrageous lies with panache. He doesn't have a single true ally. But! he is going to do whatever he has to do!

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it is so funny that apparently outie irving is like deep in the conspiracy and making clandestine phone calls and sending carefully crafted subliminal messages to his innie and meanwhile innie irving has just been living a gay romantic drama and trying to fuck his coworkers. barely even going "hey what's up with this goo"