Spoilers Severance on Apple+
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Wow. We actually upped the Weird.
If any of you have a Roku TV, they have a little Severance thing on the Home Screen, which includes bonus features.
One is the cast reading online theories, and mostly laughing. However it looks like Ben Stiller may have given us a hint…I won’t spoil it here.
One is the cast reading online theories, and mostly laughing. However it looks like Ben Stiller may have given us a hint…I won’t spoil it here.
Severing would put a stop to harassment or mistreatment lawsuits against the company filed by employees. The employee would only remember being harassed or mistreated at work, and wouldn't remember a thing when they went home. They would even keep coming back to work. Also, no workplace injury or accident claims against the employer. It's the employer's word that it didn't happen at work, and in court (if it ever got that far) the employee wouldn't remember how the injury occurred.Yeah, so I went to watch the finale of Silo and found this loaded, and I couldn't wait. Silo will be tonight.
I think everything Milchick said was bullshit. The newspaper, that they're "heroes" outside, the reforms, the family visiting center, all of it. That movie was ridiculous. I think we'll get an episode that shows what *really* happened to their outies. If it's truly been 5 months, where the hell were their outies?
Miss Huang...Mark and Gemma's daughter? A child grown down there? We know at least two of them (Mark and Irving) had relationships with other severed employees in the real world.
I think this whole thing is some kind of experiment. Getting a "feeling" to put certain numbers in boxes...???
Anyway, we're off and running.
We saw that when Helly hit Mark with a coffee cup, and Lumon left a note on his car with a BS explanation and a gift card.
195 if you include The Vatican and Palestine. I doubt Lumon has any operations in any of those two non-UN represented countries.Also!!!
“Lumon operates in 206 countries.”
There are 193 countries right now, according to the UN.
195 if you include The Vatican and Palestine. I doubt Lumon has any operations in any of those two non-UN represented countries.
We don’t really know the setting of this show. Riken has a smart phone, but their workplace looks like the 80’s.
I believe in season one we caught a glimpse of documents with the non-existent state abbreviation "PE," so the strange number of countries just seems like further suggestion that the show doesn't take place in "our" world.
PE is seen all over the place the state Kier is located in, most notably on license plates and newspapers. It's definitely some fictional state.
I just read an article on io9 about the outside world and it mentioned that we're going to learn a lot more about it.
I haven't had a chance to watch this yet (probably won't until tomorrow evening) but Ben Stiller and Adam Scott break down the months-long filming of that incredible first scene:
I just read an article on io9 about the outside world and it mentioned that we're going to learn a lot more about it.
I haven't had a chance to watch this yet (probably won't until tomorrow evening) but Ben Stiller and Adam Scott break down the months-long filming of that incredible first scene:
Did anyone else check this out?
My son and I looked into what Stiller said, and there's definitely something interesting going on...
Did anyone else check this out?
My son and I looked into what Stiller said, and there's definitely something interesting going on...
Don't have Roku but very curious. Can you put it behind spoiler tags?
Also!!!
“Lumon operates in 206 countries.”
There are 193 countries right now, according to the UN.
You're not counting Overseas Territories, Non-Self Governing Territories, Dependencies and Disputed Territories, which can jack that number up to almost 300 "countries".
Is Guam "like" a country?
In the special, there were actors reading various fan theories that were pretty out there. Mostly for laughs. But at the end, Stiller said something like "I'm surprised no one has mentioned what's in Mark's locker tray." So we went back to episode one. When he arrives at Lumon, he puts his watch in the tray in his locker. The watch says it's the morning of the 4th (I think it was 9AM). When he leaves, and picks up his "outie" watch, it now says a little after 5PM on the 5th. The implication is that while he spent 8 hours at work, 32 hours have passed in the real world. We figure Stiller wouldn't point that out unless it was important. Make of that what you will.
That is very curious.
Speaking of Stiller dropping hints, he made a perhaps innocuous, perhaps not, comment at the end of the Vanity Fair video I linked.
He comments on the guy we see in the out-of-focus, far background when Mark is at Wellness. "There's a guy back there. Looks kind of like you [Adam Scott], but not really" and both Stiller and Scott laugh. It's probably nothing and the guy in the background is probably just Milchick.
...but perhaps there's something more going on there.
...but perhaps there's something more going on there.
I'm prepared for the show to throw a curveball at me but I'm 100% convinced that "Helly" is currently Helena in disguise, there to monitor the rest of the innies. My guess is that Mark's outie has some sort of plan against Lumon (but obviously has no way to communicate with his innie self), and that Lumon suspects something is up, but I'm also pretty confident in my inability to fully guess where things are going before they're revealed
I think so too, but I have to wonder if that's not too obvious. And then I start second guessing myself. Man, this show fucks with you in such an awesome way.
I'm not sure whether I think Helly has been permanently unsevered -- she's such a well-liked character I'd be surprised if they had basically killed her off screen (though I'm not discounting it as a possibility). I do suspect either way that if it actually is the case that this is Helena Egan and not Helly, they've signposted it heavily enough in the first episode that it'll become explicit pretty quickly.
Maybe it’s as simple as TPTB can turn the chip off when they want?
