#the lexington letter

[blueshelledbastard]

Here is a link to a Google Drive folder containing Severance S02E09 "The After Hours", as well as S02E08 "Sweet Vitriol" and S02E07 "Chikhai Bardo".

The episodes contain all available subtitles in 1080p. Open them with VLC Media Player, select "Subtitles" and choose the subtitles you'd like.

Same goes for:

S02E04-06 "Woe's Hollow", "Trojan's Horse" and "Attila",

S02E01-03 "Hello, Ms. Cobel", "Goodbye, Ms. Selvig" and "Who Is Alive?",

As well as the entirety of S01. Please note, that in order to enjoy subtitles with Season 01, they will have to be inserted manually via the zipped "Subtitles" folder enclosed. Start the episode with VLC Media Player, select "Subtitles", then "Subtitle Track", and select the corresponding episode's prefered subtitle. The subtitles do not persist between opening and closing the file.

Additionally, here is a link to a Drive folder containing "The Lexington Letter" as well as "The You You Are".

Should there be any issues or concerns, check this post's comments or let me know what I can assist you with.

Praise Kier.

[enjoyerofmitski]

been thinking a lot about how innies are somewhat able to access some of their outies’ subconscious minds or repressed memories and vice versa..

an example of this is how irving b sees the visions of black goop which is a manifestation of his outie’s repetitive paintings of the testing floor, something that he shouldn’t even know about. in this case, both the innie and outie minds seem to be influencing one another.

another example is mark s sculpting the tree that his outie’s wife, gemma, crashed into during his wellness session with miss casey. this also has the added layer of miss casey literally being gemma.

additionally, in The Lexington Letter, peggy k has seemingly plucked a whole made up language, puglish, from her outie’s subconscious. somehow, she is able to remember it from her outie’s literal childhood.

there is something so important and compelling about the innies and outies not being COMPLETELY cut off from each other. the different consciousnesses seem to bleed into one another when faced with strong memories or trauma.

[limonberryart]

thinking thoughts.

severance / SAYER / severance: the lexington letter / wikipedia - pure michigan

[commiehilfiger]

thinking about Peggy K & Peg Kincaid 🥹🥹

[killing-time-in-a-fun-way]

read the Lexington letter, I feel like severance is the grown up version of A Series of Unfortunate Events in some ways? Just in terms of the depth and the layers and complexity and just ugh I love it when a creator or team really just give a shit about the world they create

I love u Dan Erickson I love u Ben stiller

[zoozoocala]

watching s2 must be a very different experience if you do not have the context of the Lexington Letter ... specifically this

[lumonrecycles]

Ok rereading Lexington:

Cobels mother was killed by a faulty lumon breathing tube. This landed her in the school for girls and also made her secretly hate lumon and want revenge. She has been living her own parallel lives as a good lumon girl and and a mole and this is why she dislikes Helena so much.

[the-dirt-eater]

BROOOOO how many of you severance enjoyers have read the lexington letter. i highly recommend it here’s a link https://severance.wiki/_media/the_lexington_letter.pdf

it’s a canon letter written by the writer of the show.

warning for spoilers beyond here

we learn sm about the code detector and its evolution, we see the whole handbook which is sooo weird and infantilizing.

we maybe learn what the files do when MDR finishes them?? or at least what they maybe can do. in this letter the file is called Lexington, which like Cold Harbor is the name of an important historical battle. i wonder what the significance of that is.

it also gets into what counts as a skill that the innies can access, which answered some questions i had.

andddd it gave me more questions, especially about how the files work (some are harder than others, and those files garner the attention of bosses and bosses bosses upon completion) AND THE EDITORS LAST NAME????

anyway. definitely read if you’re interested in the world of severance it’s well done and fills in some gaps

[severedbythenarrative]

“Thank you for my life, you were the best part of it.”

I am going to drive my bus into a ditch.

[blueshelledbastard]

Here's a drive link to both the Lexington Letter and The You You Are to all ye who despair

Severance 👍

[enjoyerofmitski]

the “dorner truck explosion” mentioned in The Lexington Letter (a companion short story for Severance) is also mentioned in The You You Are.

in The Lexington Letter, peg kincaid details her experience as a severed employee. peg and her innie, peggy k, begin to communicate using a made up language from peg’s youth. peggy k initiates the contact explaining that the language has been in her head for weeks. since the language is made of symbols rather than letters, the code detectors are seemingly unable to detect the notes. she eventually explains her decision to leave the company after connecting the dorner therapeutics truck explosion with her innie’s completion of the lexington file.

peg explains this weird connection to her innie, and their communication goes dark for some time. peggy k ends up telling peg to leave lumon after many shifts in the break room. with this final note, peg is given a microdata refinement orientation booklet.

in The You You Are, the dorner truck explosion is mentioned again.

this has got me wondering if we will be seeing a mention of this in the show itself, or if we may see a connection between microdata refinement and some type of corporate espionage?

[crunchycrystals]

side note the innies know "happy birthday to kier" instead of just happy birthday. the severed floor really is hell

[sweetkrystalblogs]

the lexington letter- available for free on apple books

[mourningmaybells]

both The Lexington Letter and The You You Are mention the donner truck explosion....

[gothicseverance]

In literature, a “found document” refers to when the text of the story is presented as though it comes from an actual document that was discovered and assembled by either someone in the story or an outside observer.(…) The found document framing device has been part of Gothic literature since its very beginnings and was particularly popular during the nineteenth century.

—The Gothic Library

The Lexington Letter

[murphycooper]

imagine if severance season 2 starts with the normal office routine but then they reveal this episode is gonna be about peggy k and the lexington letter and then the opening credits roll