#severance tv

[fiveroundliner]

| The product of love that we do not receive |

Helly/Helena x Mark edit

[lenorayoder]

lumon really made that whole claymation video in a week. that's how u know they're evil

[peetamellarkenjoyer1]

season two episode 2 theories and thoughts!!

I definitely think that whoever was was down there in the first ep of szn 2 was Helena and not Helly HOWEVER i think that meeting innies is going to shift Helena further to the good side! if you watched the "behind the scenes" clips at the end of the episode, Britt (the actor playing helly/helena) talks about how when Helena watches the footage of Helly and Mark kissing she realizes that Helly has a lot more "freedom" in certain ways then she has, like Helly is much more able to speak her mind and act impulsively and such. 

my number one question is still "literally what is Kier??" like obviously its the guy that founded Lumon but is it like a religion and/or a way of life? there are a lot of signs pointing to that but it's still sort of unclear to me. It kind of seems that Lumon and Kier are like some sort of worldwide monopoly/cult?? it's so fascinating, this show FUCKS!!

also what year is it?? the Lumon parking lot only had older car models and obviously all of the tech on the severed floor is really old...

LASTLY, it seems like mr. milchick definitely lied about them being gone for five months... he says that he only had 48 hours to pull together the replacements, which in my opinion further points to the whole thing about the squad being whistleblowers being staged

[absolxguardian]

I just got a severance x ziprecruiter ad and damn, the marketing department has really been cooking this season. You got performance art, in-universe radio ads, and now they're tricking other companies into making anti-advertisements that subsidize their own marketing.

[narcsmelly]

I OWE MY SOUL TO THE COMPANY STORE | SEVERANCE | 16 TONS

[therealslimshady]

if I was mark scout and I discovered that the place I split my brain to work at so I wouldn't kill myself ended up being the kill yourself factory I would have been soooo pissed off

[zhnetsi]

severance 2022 was so good

closeup!! ↓

[dykedarling]

hey kids, what’s for dinner

[cripple-punk-dad]

I am shocked that they invented something *worse* than bury your gays. Create a second version of yourself that is still gay and falls in love with another second version of somebody. But you still have your outside life where you are alone except for your dog and the man you fell in love with is happily married to another man. He's not straight, you weren't his awakening but he was yours and he's happy with another man but you're still lonely and the version of him who loves you and whom you love is dead now and you can never see him again holy shit I'm crying about Irving from severance again please I'm broken

[prvncecaspian]

markgemma's doomed love is about to be legendary... mark refining the data on his screen cutting to this shot of gemma/ms casey. ...sinister wicked behaviour by lumon if this means innie!mark is the one reformatting her chip

[priscaren]

Helly R:

[fiveroundliner]

Severance S2E1 spoilers - the Helly debate (pro Helly R.)

Okay so I think it’s definitely Helly R. and not Helena, and I need to put it down in writing in case I’m right lol

Firstly I think if they had the option to send Helena down there unsevered they would’ve done that already. Surely it’s less risky to her cause for her to just go down there, than for her to have an innie that doesn’t play along. So why would they let her down there now, but not at the start, or not after Helly threatened to maim her, or not even after the suicide? So I don’t think suddenly sending Helena down is an option. The severance chip is spacial so they’d have to bypass the chip or something to manage that, or have a reverse overtime contingency but then some poor sod is holding the levers all day. So I think logistically it can’t be Helena.

I see a lot of people pointing to Helly “fumbling” with the on switch as a reason for it not being Helly, but honestly I’ve watched the scene a couple of times now and it’s barely a fumble? She’s feeling for the switch because she’s not looking at it. I plug my phone in to charge ever night and I still can’t find the charging port first time. Also I think it was just a transition from the scene before of Milchick pressing the switch, I don’t think it was that deep.

I also see people saying that her insistence that their innies and outies are separate is because Helena obviously doesn’t view the innies as people, but I don’t think Helena would get that defensive about it in front of Mark, if she’s there to farm information why would that be so offensive to her? It is offensive to Helly because Helly is deeply ashamed of being an Eagan.

The story Helly comes up with about what she saw on the outside was obviously unrehearsed too, if it was Helena she’d have a much more convincing lie. The fact that Irv can poke holes in her story is because it’s Helly’s lie.

All the little mannerisms too, like her laughing at things Mark says, her smiling at him, the empathy she shows the Mark Dylan and Irv, how familiar she seems with them, it all points to Helly R for me. The few mannerisms that do seem odd to me can be explained by the fact that she’s still reeling from what she’s seen. And there are a couple of moments when she’s just in the background that you do kind of see her struggling. She’s definitely acting weird but idk if it’s “I’ve been replaced by my outie” weird. I think it’s “I’ve just had my whole world shattered” weird.

The last two pieces of evidence for me is the Dan Erickson interview where he says that obviously she’d hide her outies identity because of her shame, this tells me that it’s Helly we’re seeing lying about her outie, not Helena. And then Britt Lowers interview where she talks about how Helly and Helena are going on “separate but parallel journeys”, if Helena was posing as the innie now then we just wouldn’t get any Helly journey.

And the final point that I want to make is that if it is Helena I would kind of just be idk disappointed? Idk how to put it, it just doesn’t feel right to me.

I mean obviously there’s a chance she’s Helena not Helly, but I don’t think there’s really any definitive proof that she is yet, and I definitely have my doubts that that’s the direction the writers would go in. It’s a theory fans seem to have latched onto but idk I’m not convinced. But who am I to say. We’ll just have to wait and see.

Edit: the only doubt I had in my mind before was Helly’s exit from the elevator. The last we see is her being tackled, but then she’s running forward coming out of the elevator? And the trailer clip shows her coming up in the elevator, very much on guard saying “what the fuck.” which you’d assume is her coming to the office the first time. To me, these things don’t point to her being Helena. I think when we see her wake up, that was not her first time being woken up since the over time incident. She’s been woken up before, interrogated or intimidated, and the clip we see in the trailer is a flash back. This would also explain why she asks Mark how longs it’s been. Anyway I will probably continue updating this with theories as I think of them lol.

[lenorayoder]

the babies with the kier heads in the new season 2 intro??? immortality bitches.

severance theory time, courtesy of miss huang.

i think it's a popular theory that lumon is using severed employees as test subjects for brain mapping and other experiments. we know that cobel was raised in a weird lumon orphanage... perhaps these are connected?

my theory is that lumon is learning to map brains, with the goal of being able to make complete copies of them. those mapped brains could then overwrite a child's brain (or a clone's brain? there are sheep in the lumon basement) and essentially create immortality/everlasting youth. basically lumon is trying to do what the corporation in dollhouse was doing, but more permanently. interesting, given dichen lachman's presence in both series.

maybe miss huang represents another step towards this end goal - perhaps she has part of gemma/ms. casey's brain, or is her clone? that might be a bit of a reach but i definitely stand by the immortal brain theory

[marbat]

I can't wait for the new season of Severance to drop! Decided to start off a new poster series and have this as the lead design on honor of the new episodes.

[newjailcell9000]

thinks abt how Severance is such a perfectly crafted piece of art.. godd i wanna study it for my own writing projects. Like,,, its soo perfect in my eyes bc its like a puzzle which slowly puts itself together. Every single thing matters. The curtains arent blue to just be blue. Every single thing pays off, comes back. They rlly did cook, they cooked so hard. i only can hope i can cook this hard someday too. iw ant my writing to be this good

[narcsmelly]

i steal a few breaths from the world for a minute / and then i'll be nothing forever