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25 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

Could be wrong but it felt to me like it was all filmed in a “Volume”-like digital set (technique developed for production of The Mandalorian)

If you watch the extras at the end of the episode, they are clear it was filmed outside in a national forest.  They apparently built a half-mile long bridge over the trees to get their equipment in, as they were not allowed to mess with any of the trees. 

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13 hours ago, elguapo said:

Awesome episode, spoilers:

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What was going on with Mark's reintegration in this episode?

What was the deal with the "twins"? Clones? Robots?

Wouldn't Mark immediately know who Helly really is after reintegration?

When Irv wakes up at the beginning of the episode they played a "ding" elevator noise, made me think they were in the Lumon building somehow.

I hope innie Helly is pissed that Mark banged her outie.

 

 

9 hours ago, Ted Lange said:
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Reintegration isnt immediate.  I takes multiple treatments.

 

 

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I am not 100% sure that reintegration is "both ways" either. Maybe not immediately. Mark Scout might have fully integrated Mark S, but maybe Mark S is going to need some time to integrate out.

That was the feeling I got when Mark S started seeing Ms. Casey/Gemma when he was banging Helena.

 

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On 1/30/2025 at 10:27 PM, LonghornSean said:

I know this is very random but I have a weird ability for recognizing faces. Anyway, I remembered the actress playing Dillon’s wife from the movie Signs, as the girl who worked at the pharmacy and confessed to Mel Gibson for cursing too much.

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Plus as I’m sure many others did, Lady Brienne of Tarth working in the goat department 

She also was one of the main characters in Godless. 

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1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

One theory out there, Mark S is related to Dieter. 

Wouldn't he have been swallowed by the forest after banging Helena?  Also because of the incest.

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2 hours ago, Captainant said:

I'll need to listen to the production podcast they put out, but they really did go out a tent up in a field on a goat farm for the Mammalians Nurturable department. I wouldn't be surprised if they did a similar treatment with an outdoor set for this week's episode

Stiller said everything was shot outdoors in the park in upstate NY. 

1 hour ago, Ted Lange said:

One theory out there, Mark S is related to Dieter. 

Summary please. Or link. 

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Holy goddamn some of the details they cram into this show...

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In Irving's dream, he saw this weird distorted face on the computer and saw the letters E A G A N. And he saw numbers 5714… With the A=1 B=2 encoding, 5=E 1=A 7=G 1=A 14=N = EAGAN

 

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Holy goddamn some of the details they cram into this show...

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In Irving's dream, he saw this weird distorted face on the computer and saw the letters E A G A N. And he saw numbers 5714… With the A=1 B=2 encoding, 5=E 1=A 7=G 1=A 14=N = EAGAN

 

Ok, now I get the scary numbers. 

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Fire red hair, Hell in the name, Goat horn eyebrows……

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Twins were look-a-likes IMO or animatronic 

Biggest not Helly R tell for me was her reaction to the goat tunnel last episode. Almost tried to talk Mark out of it when Helly R would have been first in. 
 

this was interesting as well..What’s for dinner?

https://x.com/alwad3i911pd/status/1887914732859875482

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13 hours ago, Native Horn said:

I would pay a lot of money to be in a tent with Helly/Helena.  Dayum.

She is pretty mediocre but would probably spend a lot of these.

 

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Wow listening to the production podcast while walking my dog this morning - EVERYTHING was practically done. Even Irving's dream sequence! They were out in the Catskills for almost 5 weeks shooting the one episode, and John Tuturro was really actually on the ice yelling up at Adam Scott actually up on the cliff.

Crazy. They had to hike 30 minutes out to the cave to shoot the scene where they found the book. Crazy amount of practical effects and production work, really outstanding stuff

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Fire red hair, Hell in the name, Goat horn eyebrows……
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Twins were look-a-likes IMO or animatronic 
Biggest not Helly R tell for me was her reaction to the goat tunnel last episode. Almost tried to talk Mark out of it when Helly R would have been first in. 
 
this was interesting as well..What’s for dinner?
https://x.com/alwad3i911pd/status/1887914732859875482

In the first episode when “Helly” came out of the elevator and saw Mark and he embraced her. She had a subtle shock reaction and I knew it wasn’t Helly.
The tent scene was awesome when her expression changed.
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Man, I thought I was confused after season 1. That was nothing compared to how confused I am now ...

nsiap ... BTW, if you’ve always wanted to join the Macro Data Refiners but flunked the Lumon interview or just don’t want your brain severed, you can play along at home:

https://lumon-industries.com/

I completed Long Branch, but I still have no idea what the objective really was, or what I did right lol.

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They were really inside the Lumen building on the Severance floor, right?  If they were outside in Dieter Eagan National Forest they would have had to use the Overtime Contingency so the Innies would have awareness outside of the Severance floor.  Instead Helena told Seth to turn off the Glasgow Block which presumptively allows Outties to retain awareness inside the Severance floor. 

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13 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

They were really inside the Lumen building on the Severance floor, right?  If they were outside in Dieter Eagan National Forest they would have had to use the Overtime Contingency so the Innies would have awareness outside of the Severance floor.  Instead Helena told Seth to turn off the Glasgow Block which presumptively allows Outties to retain awareness inside the Severance floor. 

I wondered this as well. They would have to have holodeck technology. 

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44 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

They were really inside the Lumen building on the Severance floor, right?  If they were outside in Dieter Eagan National Forest they would have had to use the Overtime Contingency so the Innies would have awareness outside of the Severance floor.  Instead Helena told Seth to turn off the Glasgow Block which presumptively allows Outties to retain awareness inside the Severance floor. 

 

30 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I wondered this as well. They would have to have holodeck technology. 

I'm sure y'all are already familiar with this YouTube account (if not, you're surely aware of the genre), but they always have good breakdowns on clues and theories. This guy is pretty adamant that, yes, it's some sort of holodeck (maybe the Exports Hall) below them. Lots of other things are also discussed.

The video is long (almost 30 minutes). I watched it Friday evening, so I don't remember the exact timestamps, but he floats that theory a few times in this.

 

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21 hours ago, wood said:

Man, I thought I was confused after season 1. That was nothing compared to how confused I am now ...

nsiap ... BTW, if you’ve always wanted to join the Macro Data Refiners but flunked the Lumon interview or just don’t want your brain severed, you can play along at home:

https://lumon-industries.com/

I completed Long Branch, but I still have no idea what the objective really was, or what I did right lol.

Thankfully I’m not the only one who is confused.

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On 2/7/2025 at 4:52 PM, Chad Fuck said:


^This.

This world looks like our world. But it’s definitely not our world. The whole show is about the manipulation of reality. We know he lives in a company town, in a company development. We don’t really know much about the information he receives - or how reliable it is - beyond what the show tells us. Anything else is projecting our world onto the show world.

 

On 2/7/2025 at 9:33 PM, Planet Houston said:

They’ve already shown that the four months thing is complete bullshit. Season 2 happens immediately after the events of Season 1 - the picture in the parade was a photoshop and all of the “heroism” shit is completely made up. 

So….this is all happening in North Korea?

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20 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

They were really inside the Lumen building on the Severance floor, right?  If they were outside in Dieter Eagan National Forest they would have had to use the Overtime Contingency so the Innies would have awareness outside of the Severance floor.  Instead Helena told Seth to turn off the Glasgow Block which presumptively allows Outties to retain awareness inside the Severance floor. 

Cold enough to wear the winter coats and hats but not cold enough to freeze breath or Irv. 

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this show is so fucking brilliant.  and damn, i can spend hours on Reddit reading Severance theories.  hell, early in season 1, people were already theorizing that Helly was really an Eagan based on clues i completely missed.

this show better sweep up the Emmys next year.  Britt Lower deserves an Emmy just based on her facial expressions:

 

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Yeah the lack of steam coming out when they were breathing or speaking was odd. The only time it actually happened was right at the end with Irving. I had holodeck or deep dream state vibes until the end. 

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On 2/9/2025 at 1:19 PM, Planet Houston said:

He must be between muscle shows

dylan has had some trouble keeping a job for very long. he even tried his hand at the waystar royco management training program.

 

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On 2/9/2025 at 11:27 PM, wood said:

Man, I thought I was confused after season 1. That was nothing compared to how confused I am now ...

nsiap ... BTW, if you’ve always wanted to join the Macro Data Refiners but flunked the Lumon interview or just don’t want your brain severed, you can play along at home:

https://lumon-industries.com/

I completed Long Branch, but I still have no idea what the objective really was, or what I did right lol.

 

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15 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

 

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Posted

Ms. Hwang's comment about "it makes them feel human" made me think of the book Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru. (spoiler for NLMG below)

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It's about teenagers at a boarding school living the lives of rich people, but they're never told what happens after they graduate. Plot twist is that the world has perfected cloning and the kids are being raised only as medical donors, to sacrifice their bodies piece by piece as people in the real world need them. Of course most of them die young. The school itself was a project to try to raise the kids humanely, even knowing their fates after graduation.

 

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The acting on this show is incredible.

 

No “fireworks” in this episode but I thought it was great. Helly talking to Mark in the hallway, Milchick’s performance review and confrontation with Mark in the elevator, and the reintegration flashes with Mark and Ms Casey at the end. All really great scenes.

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One interesting thing I noticed at the funeral was the dot matrix banner had the numbered quarters that Irving had worked printed out. I paused and did some quick math, showing that Irving had worked for three years and that it was quarter 800-something, meaning they’ve been doing this ongoing mysterious and important work for 200+ years, and they've been measuring it in sequential quarters. 

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1 hour ago, A-Tex Devil said:

So Mark in the elevator clapping back at Milkshake was outie Mark, right?

Yes, and it's how he knew the newspaper Milchik showed them was fake. 

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47 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

Yes, and it's how he knew the newspaper Milchik showed them was fake. 

I thought he knew it was fake because they now know Helly is Helena Eagan, so the parade stuff was obviously made up.

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The guy casually getting the tray of dental tools while humming "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and then walking to the scary elevator was one of the more ominous moments so far.

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On 2/14/2025 at 6:38 PM, austingirl said:

The guy casually getting the tray of dental tools while humming "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and then walking to the scary elevator was one of the more ominous moments so far.

I was just coming here to post this on the Gordon Lightfoot sighting. 

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You know, Mark was right. The funeral was dumb. Irving isn't dead any more than someone at your work on indefinite leave is dead. From their perspective, will they ever see him again? Maybe, maybe not. That doesn't tend to happen with dead people. 

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On 2/14/2025 at 5:38 PM, austingirl said:

The guy casually getting the tray of dental tools while humming "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and then walking to the scary elevator was one of the more ominous moments so far.

 

On 2/14/2025 at 9:26 PM, Captain Ron said:

I was just coming here to post this on the Godong Lightfoot sighting. 

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I think we’re going to find out the whistling man is Fields, Burt’s outie’s husband.

 

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