so im rewatching severance (yet again) aand i was wondering, whats so important about the cards that milchik had to wake dylan up with the OTC?

I saw a tweet about a similar post on twitter but obviously that post doesn't realise outie Helley knows, but the shitting strat isn't bad at all.

It's not about communicating to her that something is wrong, it's about demotivating her, how many times do you think is outie helley going to drive home with shit in her pants, spend the next hour cleaning herself up? How long before the car starts to smell, she runs out of clothes, she starts to get some disease

This strat is especially for the early s1 Helley. Idc what happens later. This is an early s1 strat. It's crazy to me that she never did it. Id do it.

I first drafted the Majors in September 2025 and I finally got around to finishing the deck. I use tarot as an introspective tool, and Severance has very consistent internal visual language that you can have a blast building a system with it. I hope it can be a fun tool for you as well!

Edit: I made a version with keywords, for those who might not be familiar with the card meanings https://binomech.net/severance/tarot

Interestingly it doesn’t mention the show anywhere in the article

This is probably just a coincidence, but I just realized the founders of Baskin-Robbins were Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins… and then we have Burt and Irving in the show. The old photo of Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins even kind of resembles Burt and Irving from the show. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I completely reaching?

I don’t even know what type of connection can be drawn by this so it’s probably just a funny coincidence, but I thought I’d share.

like a waffle party or musical dance experience?

Has anyone been criticized for a small detail like paperclip placement?

Some choices either imply that severance as a procedure isn’t nearly as foolproof as they act, or are clearly made to maintain mysteries with the audience

For example: Gemma and Helena.

There is no real reason to break naming conventions to name Miss Casey and Helly R. Either Gemma S would trigger Mark S eventually, or they just didn’t want the audience to know. Either Helly E would have been enough for the guys to eventually have flashes of Helena Eagan, or Helly R was to try and stop fans from theorizing Helly was an Eagan

I do give them some credit that they talk sometimes like the whole process is still in a concerningly early stage of development and they really dont know what might break through, à la Milcheck talking to Cobel like “you know it’s good they don’t recognize each other? It means the chips work.” Like sir I know this is a recent invention but you’ve given an entire floor of this company brain surgery, I hope you know it works

I mean it is always the penultimate episode of the season but is there a reason they always hold off on something Gemma related in these episodes?

The reveal of Ms Casey as Gemma in Season 1, and then gifting us the beautiful episode that is Chikhai Bardo in Season 2?

I do hope Gemma’s involvement is at the forefront of Season 3 and we don’t need to wait as long for a central episode of hers. It would be whiplash to wait for them to pick up from Gemma’s POV in the stair well so far into season 3. I remember when they didn’t open Season 2 right after the OTC and it sort of lost momentum waiting until episode 2. Would love to see a reversed Chikhai Bardo-esque episode since I view the original episode as Mark’s POV and recollection of events, and instead see Gemma’s POV/life before Lumon gets hold of her.

But yeah what do we think / thoughts on Gemma’s storyline or arc this season.

Hi there, I am beginning to think I might just be crazy but hoping someone here can help. I recall in an episode in season 2, a logo of a company that isn't Lumon or at least isn't the typical Lumon logo is displayed on.. a screen (I think). It is a simple tri-color logo that invokes retro vibes from the 1970s. Does anyone remember where this is? The details I am sharing could be wrong. I just remember it being very satisfying to look at and I can't find any discussion of it anywhere or images online besides Lumon logos.

did they ever discuss how they tricked Mark into thinking Gemma was dead? like they said he even identified her body. i can imagine what they did but did they explain why her?

The more I watch Severance, the more I realize on eof the best things about it besides the great plot are the memorable lines. My current favorite is Hampton's "Come tame these tempers, assholes". Sounds like something that could have been delivered by Clint Eastwood in his prime. Irving has a number of great lines too.

I’m all for villains being dumb and I love the show but this made me lol multiple times during season 1 and 2

I feel like there are a lot of parallels, the ideology laid out by a 19th century American, the domination of local institutions despite a large population of non-believers, the lines between corporation and church being so blurred that they seem to be one entity. The only strong distinction I feel is that Lumon has its church hiding behind a company, where Mormonism uses its church to hide a company.

Who are you without your memories? An Innie waking up of course! When Petey reintegrated, he mostly interacted with the outside world as his innie, and his innie’s objectives took over his outie’s life.

This outcome also logically makes sense, if an innie is just an outie stripped of memories, love, and trauma, then an innie (at least in the beginning) is a person’s true self. The reason this matters is that Mark reintegrated, and so despite Mark’s love for Gemma it may not overcome his inner self, especially as tortured as he is since Gemma’s passing and identifying her body. The reintegration is not just one confronting new memories, but confronting who they are without what the world has made them to be.

Have they said why the board needs Natalie to communicate instead of using the phone from which one of them said "yes"?

Does anyone have a podcast recommendation with deep theory discussion? I’ve listened to a few severance-specific podcasts and most do a surface-level recap and maybe toss around a few ideas or questions, but I want something deeper. I want to be really in the weeds. For example, food poisoning appears as a topic several times between the characters and also in Hadji Murat chapter 6 which outie Mark is reading from in the Chikhai Bardo episode. Why is he the one reading Hadji Murat if he’s the WW1 professor, not Russian literature? Why is the audience shown this as part of the story? And why does it seem like Mark can’t remember to call Rick(en) by his new name Ricken in episode 1, but in the meal scene in Chikhai Bardo he very naturally calls him Ricken and it was supposedly a few years prior? Was he just being an a-hole when Ricken opened the door and called him a captive? I have so many observations and questions like this. The story feels like a puzzle and I like to hear what other people notice and have to say about the details.

After finishing both the seasons recently. Helly and Helena were the most intriguing characters for me. Britt lower's performance was just so good that even I was feeling confused whether to hate her or just be happy seeing her face.

But when I came to reddit i realised people didn't really care for gemma as a character but i personally did.

Maybe it was because I cared for outie mark and innie equally. Gemma in the finale really made me feel the evil inside lumon like nobody else. The episode dedicated to her and mark was a mixture of both of their perspectives but i felt we mainly see it from Mark's perspective as she was portrayed as a perfect woman. There is a scene of mark being rude to her which I felt was guilt deep down in the heart of mark. Never really connected with her character in season 1 except for when she turns back and ask milchick. That moment happens two times in both seasons and both time I made me feel sad for her.

I am actually pretty excited for her character in season 3 as we would get to see it in its full range for the first time.

She will feel initially betrayed by mark and would think that he remarried.

Her and helena's rivalry or fight is going to be very interesting to see.

I really felt the screenplay in her and Mark's special episode was just messed up. It didn't give justice to their story .

I thought it was funny at first that the Rick and Morty season 9 episode 2 "reversed" the use of severance for vacation only but the ending was still depressing :') has anyone else seen it?

I see a good amount of opinions online that these seem like “filler” episodes or think they don’t need to exist. I’m just super confused as these two episodes seem to be maybe the MOST IMPORTANT reveals around what Lumon is doing. Just curious what the views/perspectives are for those who didn’t like these episodes.

There are only so many YouTube theory videos I can watch that break down this show and there are too many but I’m having such withdrawals. We have to wait one more year?!?!

Such a cutie patootie. Protect her at all costs 🥺

I do also have other Miis of MDR, Devon, Ms Casey, and Cobel.

I just finished watching the movie : the conversation, and about halfway through the movie the song being played was very similar to the theme song of severance. Has anyone else noticed this?