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Yesterday's episode of Severence was so good I watched it again which is super rare.
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There is no way that could be Helly R down there. It has to be Helena, I'd be so annoyed if it wasn't. Irving knows and Dylan is twigging onto it too.Dylan and Gretchen are going to be the actual throuple.
The actress playing Felicia had the best facial acting when she gave Irving a hug. I felt like I was being hugged myself.
Devon's strained "yis..." when Natalie asks her a question as she's about to leave the horrific Ricken ego-fest was one of the best lines from an already amazing actress who sounds so uncannily real in every line read.
The goat people are almost all homeless or drug addicts hence the awful skin and hair.
Cobel hurriedly left because she recognised the bodyguard from something and realised she wasn't going to leave that building alive - or at least not without her memories.
and now to wait for next Friday, sigh.
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___The goat people! Plausible that they may severed homeless. If they were more normal outies they might be suspicious about why they leave work looking dishevelled everyday. Or maybe they are true believers, so they blindly accept what they do during the day is good for Lumon? WHAT ARE THE GOATS FOR?? As for the facial acting, the smiles from Milchick and Natalie. So disturbing, fake, evil and condescending all at the same time. They deserve an acting award just for the smiles. This show is a total mastery of the uncanny and unnerving. It’s gonna be a slow week waiting for the next episode.spoiler
It's so crazy right?! I can't imagine that they'd be able to cover up smelling of goats every day. And they do look seriously deranged.
I read somewhere that the goats in S1 were included as more of a non-sequitor but because they were so popular with the audience they have an expanded role in S2 lol. I wouldn't be surprised (and would actually kind of prefer) if they didn't explain what the goats were for in the end, it's just one of the unfathomable mysteries of a big corporate office...
Oh man, the hidden conversation between Milchick and Natalie was a masterclass in facial acting. I rewatched it several times just to see the point at which Natalie was silently begging with her eyes for Milchick to just go along with it despite how stupid and insulting the gift was lol.
It sure is going to be a slow wait, but I do also love that we have time to digest and analyse been episodes, the online communities are absolutely buzzing right now and it wouldn't have been the same if all the episodes dropped at once. Though I almost wish they did the first two together.
We're gonna need a concise theory from you because I can't pick it.
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Absolutely is helena, they broadcast the fuck outta that when she lied about what happened during overtimeI thought so too, plus mounting evidence over the past couple episodes, but it's nuts how many people on Reddit thought it wasn't. You don't subdue a determined motherfucker like that so easily!
I'm going to rewatch the whole series 1 and 2 episodes again.
I saw it too and that cliffhanger. Argh!
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Regarding Ms. Cobel, I reckon that might be her dead husband, especially with the way she had her shrine and the ventilator mask in her front seat.The mystery behind Gemma really has me curious now about what had happened, at first I thought Miss Wong had something related to her but now I’m not so sure.
There's a brief moment in S1
that shows...
... The ventilator mask is actually for a Charlotte Cobel, date of birth March 17, 1944. It's in one of the episodes when they show a close-up of the shrine in Ms Cobel's house.Lots of theories since then about how Cobel's motivation to prove reintegration might be tied to bringing Charlotte (mother?) back, tied into the broader assumption that the ultimate goal of the Severence chip and whatever MDR is doing relates to recreating a personality and bringing back a dead person a la Gemma. It's all very unclear ATM!