#the theremin

[ivycopper]

Today I learned that Teller plays the theremin. The fucking theremin. What can't he do?

[thonkphonk]

Lumon looked at Milchik as supervisor and said he had as much impact as a theremin

[ghostfacerseffect]

They did NOT have to bring little Miss Huang to the Jerk Off And Die Woods

[knightofleo]

One-Man Theremin Band

[spacedace]

I love me some eldritch, incomprehensible ghost speak in fics, but in my heart ghost speak sounds like a theremin being played.

Like, it's one of those instruments that can sound so much *like* a human voice, and sound nothing like one all in the same song. It can make kind of chipping noises, it can make some truly horrifying sounds. It can be beautiful, it can be creepy, it's peak ghost speak to me

(Also just love the idea of people playing the theremin at ghosts to join the ghost speak convo being like the meme of when people meow to their cats, but like are saying "taxes" or "ketchup" in response to "hi" lol)

Anyway please juat imagine Danny & the other ghosts sounding like this while they talk/fight:

[no-longer-in-the-laboratory]

As tiny and inconsequential of a moment that it is, there's one singular line in Severance s2 EP 5 that absolutely shattered my heart,

It's in that scene after Irving's funeral, after Milchick pulled Ms. Huang out before she can perform the Theremin, she protests with a simple "But I practiced!"

It's such a harsh reminder that she, above all else, is still a child. It means that she was proud of her theremin playing, and that she actually looks forward to actually getting to play it for people. She complains to Milchick in that scene like a little girl complaining to her father because she missed a chance to prove herself. It's the most human thing we ever hear Ms. Huang say.

And looking at her, what do we even really know about Ms. Huang? Other than the fact that she's young, and claims that she was a crossing guard before working the severed floor? We know she takes the place of Milchick's previous position, and he's not severed. But we got to see Milchick outside of the building. We never see Ms. Huang up to any activities outside of what goes on in the severed floor. Does she live there? After all, how would Lumon be able to cover up the optics of a child working for them? If a kid was publicly working for them, wouldn't the anti-lumon crowd be vocally condemning them? Wouldn't we see someone on the news with a 'Lumon practices child labor' sign?

And if she does live there, and her life working as assistant manager of the severed floor is all she knows, then does that mean that Milchick really is the closest thing she has to a father? And the Innies she oversees, as detached from them as she is- (hence the "I'm your supervisor, not your friend" line) Close enough to a family that some part of her craves the idea of impressing them?

When did she practice? Does she have any free time to do so? Did she cram extra time on the instrument during meal breaks? Did she learn the theremin completely from scratch down there? If so, did she start practicing by playing kier hymns? Has she tried to compose her own songs?

'But I practiced!' is the most emotion we see Ms Huang express and I think it's absolutely gutwrenching considering the implications.

[smash-or-pass-objects]

[falstarin]

In the severance finale gemma and irving and peter will form a circle and say haha guys severance was the friends we made along the way. and then milchik will punch kier eagan's brain jar and the board will explode and then cobel will say haha mark. you are so cool. I knew you could win. and then everyone will walk into the sunset. this is real btw my good friend sten biller told me this

[jgthirlwell]

10.25.24 Theremin goddess Dorit Chrysler at the Met Museum in NYC.

[lenorayoder]

oh my goddddd mark and gemma i'm going to dieeeee

and yet every time i try to ruminate on them miss huang pops up, mad that she couldn't do her theremin solo and ready for revenge

[inkdroplet-sivz]

i'm so proud of you irving (SCREAMING CRYING ABOUT TO KILL)

thinking about how we haven't had all 4 for more than 30 seconds for this entire season...

[horrorshowing]

An unexpected visitor

[vitrall]

You know he's a keeper when he writes you a song and plays it for you on his theremin 😳

[tactilegalaxies]

Among everything else that happened, let’s take a moment to give up for the sound design and scoring on this show. Severance always has great sound design, but the way it was used in this episode was just impeccable.

I don’t have the expertise to describe how, but like… the music during the sex/walking into the woods scene that starts ethereal but immediately becomes ominous… the weird fluttery crackle that turns out to be moths against the computer screen… the disconcerting background hums that underlay the voices and natural sounds throughout the episode… man. They really went all out, and the result was the most foreboding and unnerving episode we’ve had yet.

[wuntrum]

wish arcades could make even more of a comeback in the us ONLY so that we can get rhythm games as good as the ones in japan...like listen, i love the guitar hero cabinet in my local arcade (and love saying hi to hatsune miku at the imported cabinets they have!) but it'd be cool to have even more songs with charts and controls as cool as chunithm / sound voltex / etc.