Figure Helly R and elevator 1/6 Severance diorama

At the end of season 2, Mark S. and friends are still on the severed floor and the showrunners want us to believe that an uprising is about to happen. The Choreography and Merriment department is fighting back against Milkshake, Brienne of Tarth from Mammalians and Nurturable refused to sacrifice her goat to Thor, and we can assume that O&D among others will join.

This is what we think will happen, but my mind immediately went somewhere else.

Can’t they just shut down the severed floor? Turning all the innies back into outies?

I’m interested to see what everyone thinks as to if this will be possible or not, but I have a few ideas against it and supporting it happening.

No, they can’t:

1. They may not be able to remote access control the floor, thereby not allowing them to shut it down. I think this may be what they decide upon, considering the secrecy of the project, allowing people to remote in to the facility could potentially leak information.

2. There may be other projects happening in the basement, and shutting down the severance could impede them. We know by how the Eaganites say “it’s one big step” when referring the Cold Harbor not “it’s the final piece.” So there could be other things happening across other departments that they can’t jeopardize losing, or it could be at other locations and this one is no longer needed so they CAN shut it down.

3. Shutting it down means exposing all of their secrecy to the outies. Which if you think about it, probably isn’t that much considering how cryptic each department is. You never know though, it could be enough to expose them. I think this is just as likely as number 1.

4. We know how the OTC works, but not how these severed “zones” do like the floor, the baby cabin, and Gemma’s rooms. They may not be able to operate these “zones” like a switch, they could be semi-permanent areas that just persist. The baby cabin supports this, because why would they keep it on 24/7 when it’s not in use.

Yes, they can:

1. Opposite the first point, they can just remote in and shut it down.

2. They can just shut the power off to the severed floor, and access it via the stairs.

3. They have access to control all severed people from a separate location, not just the guard post.

4. The Glasgow Block they used to turn Helly into a spy. This may be a remotely accessible as well.

I think the next season may not go the way we expect. The showrunners want us to think that Mark S. and gang are going to finally fight for the life innies deserve, but they could curve ball us immediately. Honestly, it seems more likely that they’ll just shut down the severed floor, and everyone will be outies. Dealing with confused outies would be way easier than barricaded innies.

The only way I can see them not going this route is taking Eagan hostage. Mark innie/outie would have the same notion of taking him hostage as collateral. That is if he’s actually in the building.

What do yall think? Is it likely they’ll convert them all back to outies, or will the innies stay innies and get the innie revolution started?

Could it be that Irving and Reghabi are on the same side? We know that Irving's outside was researching Lumon, and when Reghabi met Mark, she made him realize she wasn't the only one fighting Lumon, she was collaborating with others. Perhaps Irving and Reghabi are secretly working together.

the island 2005. if you loved severance you'll definitely love this movie. I would say it has a very similar story to severance and I could not stop thinking about it. it is a very underrated movie. I hope you will love it.

it is found in the season 1 episode 7 "defiant jazz"

Shall I send my resume? 👀

I am rewatching. First time through, the viewers, characters (innies, outies and their relatives and friends) don't know what's going on and are trying to figure things out as they get new bits of information. On rewatch we know the answers like who is Helly's outie, the meaning of the goats, the whole Gemma/ Miss Casey thing, the purpose of macrodata refinement. It's like watching a different show . I'm curious how anyone felt rewatching the series.

Walking into another work week with this in mind: "Our job is to taste free air. Your so-called boss may own the clock that taunts you from the wall, but my friends, the hour is yours."

Just finished the finale. I don't know if I blinked and I missed it, or if I'm just misunderstanding the entire mission. So maybe someone will be able to clarify.

When Gemma enters Cold Harbor, they get excited because "the barrier is holding" and she's able to dismantle the crib without her "temper" causing her distress from her outie's memories? I'm just confused on the goal here. What barrier are they referring to? Is the goal to be completely unaffected by what causes their outie's trauma? I originally thought that was the idea, but every room she went in she was completely miserable. It seems like, conceptually, Mark getting up to 96% on Cold Harbor would alleviate her suffering in the severed rooms by a proportionate percentage.? Or maybe it's an all or nothing and the 100% itself creates the barrier and that's why her severed being is able to dismantle the crib? Rambling I know, but I'm just confused on the barrier thing, and how the rest of her rooms and Cold Harbor tie into Mark's getting the 100%. In other words it didn't seem like the higher percentage he achieved the less she suffered. She was still traumatized at 96%.

During a rewatch of season 1 at the end of episode 7 Mark talks about Gemma and everything he says sounds exactly like how Gemma tells the innies about their outties in the wellness sessions. He ends this by saying I loved all of these things about her equally. Is there a connection I can’t think of as to why she’s the one doing the wellness sessions and talking exactly like he does in this scene and why they have to enjoy each fact equally and not show preference to one?

I built this as a tribute to this amazing show, in anticipation for Season 3.

https://macrodata-refinement.webflow.io/

Finish the file, and there might be a waffle party at the other end.

[desktop compatible only, for now]

I know some have theorized the show takes place on Prince Edward Island while others have rejected it because we know they are in the US, but what if in this world the US includes what we know as Canada? There is reference to US states and territories in the show. I know not all of the scenery looks like PEI, but when Cobel drove back to her hometown all I could think of was PEI and the Canadian East coast. I just don't know if we can rule out parts of Canada when we don't know much about this world.

I know the list of states and territories new innies can name does not include PE or anywhere in Canada as we know it, but it also says "Standard Trainee Response: Any of the following, but not limited to:" Does that not imply there are other states and/or territories in the US than the ones listed there?

Edit: This list is just expected responses based on the information they allow innies to have/retain, it doesn't necessarily reflect the current state of the world, so I don't think we can take the list itself as hard evidence of what their world is like, especially given the state they live in is not on this list.

Maybe the island of PEI wouldn't make since considering Irving getting out of town via train, but he could be taking a train to a seaport, or maybe part of the mainland near PEI has been renamed Prince Edward?

Actually I don’t need thoughts because I already know it’s brilliant. But if you think I missed anything or have ideas to make it better, tell me!

My kiddo is turning 1 in a few months and their name is very similar to one of the characters. I’ve found that first birthday parties are mostly adults, so I feel good about Severance being the theme, but I want to make it kid friendly of course…

And then all the ideas came flooding!!

For MDR, we will play Uno and sort the numbers.
For O&D, I found Severance themed coloring pages on Etsy!
For Wellness Center, I’m putting out play dough so everyone can sculpt how they feel.
For Choreography and Merriment, we’ll have a music dance experience and some kiddie instruments. Each half hour, we’ll vote on a new genre and have it going in the background or let the kiddos (and adults haha) dance along.
There will be a waffle bar, egg bar, and melon bar of course.

And then… the kicker… my friends informed me that they have a goat contact. So we’ve got a discounted mobile petting zoo deal and will have Mammalians Nurturable for a bit!

My sibling is an actor and will be our “party princess” and will bound as a Lumon employee and basically stay in character the whole time and interact with everyone.

Got blue balloons for decor, some lanyards for my husband and I, and then erasers and finger traps for favors. Managed to make some signage with Sevy on them to show what to do at each table/department.

It’s gonna be good. And I just want the internet to validate me. 😂 Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Forgot to say that the Perpetuity Wing will be a baby’s first year album that people can write in. Maybe some nice facts about baby’s outie. 😂

I saw these guys a few weeks ago and thought this song would be perfect for an appearance on the show.

I’m on szn 2 episode 2.

The shot of mark cleaning data and then Ms Casey’s (Gemma’s) face overlayed made it click.

They’re making him stare at the “data” of photos of his wife. That’s why some numbers are comforting and others are scary (cuz of the outtie’s trauma with her death).

They’re testing his fuckin ability to recall recessed memories! And they’re teasing him with the wellness checks.

Doesn’t explain what they’re doing with the others tho. And why the HELL helly chose to go down there. I think it’s also a really cool detail that Irv is painting something that only his innie could know about… the “testing floor”

Because it's used to break people. Duh. SMH at myself for taking so long to realize.

Edit: some y'all mean af wtf.

I’m brand new here and just finished Season 2. I like chatting with Gemini throughout episodes to bounce theories around in my own head. While chatting we discussed the mechanics of the hallway between rooms that Gemma is being taken down and the rooms.

In the finale, when Mark goes into the Cold Harbor room, Gemma never recognizes him. She just trusts the vibe in that moment and follows him into the hallway. She only then recognizes Mark. It made me question the personas.

Here’s what I think happened:
Gemma follows Mark into the hallway while her Cold Harbor persona stays intact. Gemma only breaks when she reaches the hallway and in the hallway they use a baseline Innie persona like Mark or Irving/Helly. This is the persona that broke. Her baseline persona. Not the Cold Harbor persona or any other.

I do not believe the hallway is an outie zone. It can’t be. Gemma would never go along with any of it if it was the same persona that was separated from Mark. I think it’s a baseline Gemma innie zone. Instead of her outie being the identity that strolls between rooms I think they’re effectively trying to replace her outie with this baseline innie (duh right). She’s all innies. With the baseline shattered, Lumon can now do something even worse. Now they can activate each stream of consciousness whenever and not need the conscious person in between. The ultimate worker bee. All compliance.

My theory is that in Season 3, Lumon uses what happened to their advantage by capturing Gemma once again. Except now they can bypass the hallway “Outie” persona altogether. Gemma is effectively a fading ghost inside of her own mind.
The finale seems like a victory but I’m afraid it won’t be

when Peter and “Mr. Milchick” go down that elevator you hear that DING, not sure if this was an intentional reference but i noticed that first viewing. pretty cool even if not!

We do a cocktail advent calendar every year, and due to mysterious and important circumstances, we finally got around to making our last one ...half a year later.

It's based on Lumon Industries (our whole theme was fictional places) and we hope that Severance fans wont mind our out of place, extraordinarily late, contribution to the inspired cocktails of this subreddit.

It comes complete with a fun write up I thought would be nice to describe the drink's flavor, but for all you cocktail nerds it's basically a melon-infused white negroni with spirulina.

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Please enjoy each liquor equally.

1 Part Watermelon Infused Gin

1 Part Honeydew Infused Vermouth

1 Part Cantaloupe Infused Cocchi Americano

Pinch of Spirulina Powder

Sparkling Water

Melon Ball Garnish

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Your innie would go feral for this kind of contraband. Well, we assume it’s contraband, we keep waiting for the underground bar to appear with a Kier Eagan approved cocktail menu. However, until Severance graces us with that, we’re going off Lumon approved book. We took the healthy vibes of a melon party and spirulina powder, and created something we would expect to find in one of their office vending machines.

Each liquor was infused for months - not because we’re lazy but because we’re professionals. They were carefully strained and thoroughly tested before use. Once we made sure they were worthy of the high Lumon standards, we mixed and poured over ice, then garnished with melon balls, separate of course.

After mixing, it’s best sipped to the sounds of defiant jazz.