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Feel like pure shit just want him back x

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Went to the London ORTBO 🌐

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Lots of debate over if that was Helly or Helena at the end because of the look she saw Gemma.

Was it just me that didn’t see a smirk at all? I thought it looked like a passing glance of relief. She tried everything to convince him to go with Gemma but he still chose her. She knew they had succeeded in getting Gemma out and they’re going to die anyway but for maybe those last 10 minutes they get to be together just one last time.

Idk it seems more in character and makes more sense to me than a cheap writing twist. She wasn’t being cruel at all - she had been put first for once in her life and was relieved despite everything.

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Dylan and Mark having some very different innie/outie interactions today

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out of everything that just happened i think mpreg kier was probably the craziest

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outie mark: our wife is being TORTURED. stop having sex with helena eagan and get her OUT!

innie mark: don’t care + didn’t ask + L + ratio + you’re an alcoholic with no drip

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THE BABIES IN THE INTRO WEREN’T ABOUT A HELENA PREGNANCY THEY’RE ALL THE ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF JAME

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In Severance S2E9 “The After Hours” Cobel uses “I’m looking for a gold thimble” as the message to get into the birthing retreat under the guise of one of Jame’s children secretly being born.

The Twilight Zone S1E39 “The After Hours” is about a woman called Marsha who discovers mannequins on a secret floor that supposedly doesn’t exist of a department store that come to life. The mannequins take turns going down to live among humans (who they call “the outsiders”) every month. Marsha discovers she is actually a mannequin but enjoyed her time with the outsiders so much she forgot she was actually a mannequin. She only discovers this fact when she goes looking for a gift for her mother at the store. The opening narration of the episode?

“Miss Marsha White on the ninth floor, specialties department, looking for a gold thimble.”

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The “she’s one of Jame’s” when they arrive at the birthing cabin.

I’m SORRY???

If that means what it sounds like it means this is FUCKED UP.

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Australian film classification rating for the season finale. What the FUCK is going to happen???

For reference the only other episode rated MA was Sweet Vitriol and that was for strong drug use.

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I just love that Helena is genuinely trying her best to seem like a regular human being and yet every time it comes across as the most lizard person in human skin behaviour. True billionaire CEO representation.

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I'm so sorry it's shit I JUST watched the new episode and had to do this as fast as possible

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Ah Asal Reghabi. Shows up out of nowhere, kills a man, disappears, comes back, performs experimental brain surgery, and hijacks your basement. What a woman.

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Mr. Milchick's review:

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"did you tell her that you fucked her outie at the ORTBO?" cuntquake registering at a 9.9 on the sickening scale

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One thing I really appreciate about Severance is how complex the characters are and the fact the writers trust that we as the audience are smart enough to understand them instead of just shoving it in our faces. I feel like most shows would go 'This person is the bad guy! And this one is the good guy!!!" but they don't really do that in this show? And while I felt a little underwhelmed by the episode at first, after a few days thinking about it I think Trojan's Horse was a really good example of how the show excels in moral ambiguity and its characters.

Helena is undoubtedly a villain. She's a higher up in the company and is at the very least complicit in the torture of its workers, and now she's taken things even further by SAing Mark last episode. She's objectively a bad person, but at the same time there's this kind of tragic sense to her character just looming in the background. She's a terrible person but she's also just a puppet in a larger plan. Her father, the only family we've ever seen her having, encouraged her to be sent back down to the severed floor even after nearly being murdered just days before because he couldn't care less about her as long as the company reaches its goals. She doesn't even see the innies as people but she's more like them than she could ever realises - she's just a pawn in a larger game and no longer even has control over her own body. She's a brillaint example of 'hurt people hurt people'. It doesn't take away from any of her actions but it makes her so much more tragic and complicated.

Milchick has been a villain since Day 1 - he is part of the management, he conducted break room sessions, and - despite seemingly trying to improve some of their working conditions - he actively engages in the abuse of workers. But he's also a victim in a way. He's been nitpicked and pushed around by upper management, is constantly being chastised for his work, and is even being subjected to racism from the company he works for and is in no position to stand up for himself. It doesn't take away from any of his actions but it makes him so much more multi-dimensional and even sympathetic.

Mark is such a complicated character already but the consequences of the events of Woe's Hollow have made him even more so. He's already lost his best friend (Petey), one of his very few other friends who was probably the closest thing to a father figure he's ever known (Irving) is gone too, and he's been manipulated and SA'd by Helena - he thought he was sharing an extremely intimate experience with Helly when in fact he was being tricked and taken advantage of by somebody else essentially wearing her skin. It's completely horrific and it perfectly explains his behaviour in the newest episode and why he's being such an ass to everybody. And yet, while it perfectly explains his behaviour, it doesn't take away from the hurt that it's casting on others. Helly has no idea what's going on and he's so angry and upset and confused at Helena that he's taking it out on her instead because he just can't trust her. And you completely understand why he's acting that way but it's leading to him hurting somebody innocent in response.

Like Helena, he's an example of 'hurt people hurt people'. The emotions he's faced in this episode are so complex to navigate that one minute I'm angry at him and the next I just feel so terrible for him. His feelings are so understandable and so valid but at the same time Helly was also assaulted - her body was essentially used for sex without her consent while she was unconscious and in any other circumstance that would be seen as SA - and yet she doesn't even know. He's keeping it from her because he's embarrassed and guilty and feels violated but she deserves to know. They were both victims but only one of them is even aware and he's having to process this alone while staring at the same face that did that to him without even knowing it.

THAT is good writing. And that is what this show excels at.

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My Severance brainrot is back in full force because of season 2