Severance S2 Spoilers - Blog Posts
adam scott proves once again there is nothing more appealing than a man disheveled and covered in blood
do not ask mark scout "well what are you going to do about it" because he's going to get experimental brain surgery about it. he is actually going to get so much brain surgery about it and then also hit his head on the floor
severance continues to get wilder. gretchen cheats on her husband with her husband; don't let her husband find out! ham-based throuple gets significantly more ominous. helena convinced mentioning local depressed alcoholic widower's dead wife by the wrong name is a surefire way to get him to need her carnally. somewhere markhelly is wasting company time getting freaky under a table. milchick beefs with child and paperclips.
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
severance really said they were gonna take the love square/triangle trope and make it so insane. NOBODY is doing it like them. gretchen has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. burt out here ominously setting up a ham-based throuple. helena wants that widower cookie sooo bad.
ugh the way mark s desperately wants to believe that innies and outies are the same person to reconcile what he did with helena, but at the same time he wants to believe theyre different because ms casey isnt *his* wife, shes his outies. oh mark babygirl u are so conflicted <3
these may just be the most beautiful photos that i’ve ever seen
pics from notyoursweetie on reddit
hello my loves im back from the dead!! and i'm currently hyperfixating on helena/helly like crazy and there are nowhere near enough fics for her... so please let me know if you have any ideas!
this is so uninterested in even trying to be good, i can already tell whatever they come up with as an explanation for them being back in the offices will be so fucking contrived.. anything to keep up their 'stylistic identity' cuz that's somehow more important than telling an actually good story..