When Mark finds out about the multiple types of abuse they have been putting Gemma through down there he better go scorched earth. I swear if that doctor raped her like he was implying before the chair came down on him
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
20 points (95.5% liked)
Severance
284 readers
25 users here now
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Every new episode this season has made me feel like i've missed all of the others.
This felt like a fever dream and I loved it.
absolutely out of left field and incredible
Cinematically, this is one of the best episodes, imho.
The scene towards the end where Mark just recoils from the police at his door because he knows what it means and he just can't bring himself to answer is one of the most emotional scenes I've seen. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Severance is some of the best television I've ever had the privilege of seeing, hands down. It's just brilliant.
Seriously, I was expecting "Directed by David Fincher" when that ended, a lot of the shots were similar to Fincher films and very calculated.
Respect to Mark and Gemma for donating blood.
Cinematography and everything was terrific in this episode.
I hope we will get some answers soon.
Did you notice which company's equipment the blood donation was using? 👀
They were also involved with fertility clinic, Lumon seems to be omnipresent in this USA.
Is it bad that I found it kind of boring? Seems like all the comments I’m seeing is how amazing the episode was.
This episode explained some backstories. Maybe useful for the future, but kind of meh.
I'm in the "I liked it" group, but I don't blame you. Not a huge fan of episodes (in any show) that bring the plot to a halt for backstory.
I was bored too. It's the type of episode that should be binged with a couple of other episodes.
I thought it was a nice change of pace and a way to learn more about gemma-- the ending interaction between mark's sister and him was #feelsbad whered mark go? TO HIS LOVE 😭
I listened to a podcast talk about the episode, and I think I appreciate it more now. I just didn’t enjoy the relationship parts of the episode I don’t think. And the Gemma parts just seemed to ask more questions when we already have too many unanswered questions.
I will probably like it more when I do a rewatch.
I'm surprised, it felt like they revealed much more than I would have expected to ever get this season, without opening too many new questions. Any in particular?
Everything to do with the testing floor is a question. Who are the people watching the computers? What do the rooms mean? Why do they have the same name as the files? We know Cold Harbor is important, but now it’s a room also, what’s in it? Somebody said the doctor is going to have to let Gemma go, why? And go where?
Also, we know now she’s still alive, but Mark said he saw her dead body. What did he look at?
I feel like there’s more questions, but that’s just off the top of my head.
Who are the people watching the computers?
While we don't know their identities, it clears up who the "twins" were in Woe's Hollow. They seem to be individuals that are deliberately similar to our refiners, basically "shadows".
And this tells us a lot about the severed floor! Now we definitely know that there's more staff on the Lumon back-end, and all their actions are being analyzed.
What do the rooms mean?
The episode implied that the rooms are scenarios that Gemma strongly dislikes, with each room having a separate severed version.
Why do they have the same name as the files?
The implication is that MDR is responsible for something in relation to the room - they probably either "uncover" the scenarios the test person hates, or they prepare/change the innie versions in some ways. I'm thinking it's the earlier since Cold Harbor isn't done yet, and Mark is still working on the file.
We know Cold Harbor is important, but now it’s a room also, what’s in it?
It's going to be a scenario like the other rooms, and the episode foreshadowed that it will involve drowning (or suffocating).
Somebody said the doctor is going to have to let Gemma go, why? And go where?
Presumably this will be the topic of the next few episodes.
Also, we know now she’s still alive, but Mark said he saw her dead body. What did he look at?
Rhegabi explained that Lumon has people at the morgue. They found a corpse that looks similar to Gemma, and burned it (Mark mentioned something about identifying her charred remains).
Rhegabi explained that Lumon has people at the morgue. They found a corpse that looks similar to Gemma, and burned it (Mark mentioned something about identifying her charred remains).
I definitely missed this. When mark mentioned earlier that he saw the body, he didn’t mention it was burned and couldn’t tell it was her. It seemed like he knew it was her. So that’s not a very satisfying answer, at the same time, I get that grief fucks with your perception.
As for the others, you are just guessing the answers to the questions. Fact is, the show created more questions than it answered. For instance, telling us there is more staff on the Lumon back end is not answering a question we previously had, it is creating new questions. Who, what and why are these people? That’s 3 questions.
I thought it was a nice change of pace and a way to learn more about gemma-- the ending interaction between mark's sister and him was #feelsbad whered mark go? TO HIS LOVE 😭
Still processing this one... there's a lot to unpack. What's up with the different rooms?
Seems like she has a different severed personality for each one. And they all seemed to be either like chores or fears, I wonder if Lumon is planning severance for everyone to allow them to not have to experience fears.
Oh god... what if they are "growing" personalities that can perfectly handle these chores, so they can copy them onto Severance chips? So these versions of Gemma would be waking up in every person that buys one of these chips for convenience.
What if, unknowingly, Mark is condemning all these versions of Gemma to an infinitely copied, never-ending hell?
Their methodology is odd but maybe the logic in the show is that they believe they are "humanly" torturing her as innies to make her outie into the ideal Kier wife for Mark?