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On 3/9/2025 at 10:33 AM, Helobious said:

It’s so they can pay them fewer.

But let’s move the whole production to Newfoundland for who knows how long to film one episode?

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Still fully on board here. With a strong ending, I'd even say season 2 > season 1.

Same here. My only minor complaint is that we had 2 episodes in a row that didn’t include Dylan, Irv, Helly, etc. Other than that, I’m really enjoying season 2.
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This can only end with either mark, helly, or Gemma sacrificing themself at the end right? Even if they all reintegrate there's no path forward where they each end up happy.

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4 hours ago, Lat22 said:

But let’s move the whole production to Newfoundland for who knows how long to film one episode?

The second outing of the dystopian workplace drama cost $200,000,000 (£159.9million) to make or $20m (£15m) per episode, according to Bloomberg.

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9 hours ago, gsoda3 said:

This can only end with either mark, helly, or Gemma sacrificing themself at the end right? Even if they all reintegrate there's no path forward where they each end up happy.

FADE UP

INT MILCHICK'S OFFICE

Dylan, Helly, Mark and Gemma are sitting in a row across from Milchick. They are clearly nervous.

Milchick's cold gaze does not leave them as he slowly opens his desk top drawer.

He pulls something out, then slams it with a bang. The workers jump.

"I trust you will find this appropriate in remedying the myriad discomforts you've experienced here at Lumon."

Mark eyes Milkshake warily. Helly glances at the others as Milkshake continues.

"It's your severance package, of course."

He pauses, hand still outstretched, then turns and gives a sly wink at the camera.

The five of them burst out laughing together.

FADE OUT

 

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Just now, bschoolprof said:

well obviously, but I meant with respect to landing the plane.  

The main write claims to know what the last scene is.  But we've heard that before. 

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1 hour ago, gsoda3 said:

The main write claims to know what the last scene is.  But we've heard that before. 

Until he changes his mind, because they decided to take the story in a different direction last episode!

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15 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

I literally have no idea what the fuck that episode was all about.

Cobel was a child laborer, as young as 8, working at a Lumon ether plant. She was ID'd as a gifted child and whisked away to a Lumon school, while the ether plant had a spill/leak/"accident" and effectively poisoned the town.

The whole episode (IMO) was meant to show what Lumon leaves in it's wake. It's implied that Cobels mom died from the ether poisoning, and Lumon both caused that death and prevented Cobel from saying goodbye. Cissy is a remaining artifact of Lumon - a True Believer - and is hated by the town for it.

I think this episode was meant to show a change of heart or a moment of opposite radicalization for Harmony.

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Especially when you consider getting written out of history fame and wealth as the creator of the severance procedure, and it's stolen by the same entity that literally took her childhood and mother from her

 

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I thought it was a short detour, but still keeps the rest of the story intact? 

Funny that others brought up Lindelof, because this episode immediately reminded me of The Leftovers. A character-focused episode that detours off the overall story line but weaves its way back into it by the end is exactly how Season 2 and 3 were functioning. And The Leftovers is one of my favorite all-timers, so this episode was completely fine to me. We learned more about her, more about Lumon and their roots and previous actions, some crumbs were left for the possibility of more story/arc-building, but ultimately it sets up Cobel to bring some heat to the corporation and possibly help Mark with pushing his story line forward. 

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i understand why the last two episodes frustrate certain viewers and i did not care for a lot of the gemma episode...particularly the mental and emotional torture.

but this episode was far more important and relevant...and while frustrating that we did not get any plot advancement per se (and it was a bit slow moving and totally cinematography focused), that episode was critical for laying the predicate for not only cobel's heel turn on lumon, but also for her unique capacity and ability for what's next - which is to aid in mark's mid-reintegration shitshow after asal said fuck it, i'm out.

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On 3/1/2025 at 2:05 PM, Chad Fuck said:

Me neither.  I"m trying to figure out where this "7 innies" theory came from.  

 

I just caught up on 2 episodes this week. I think it is pretty clearly at least “7 innies” based on the conversations she was “just at the dentist” it is “always Christmas”. Imply each of those innies only existed in 1 room. 

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1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Cobel was a child laborer, as young as 8, working at a Lumon ether plant. She was ID'd as a gifted child and whisked away to a Lumon school, while the ether plant had a spill/leak/"accident" and effectively poisoned the town.

The whole episode (IMO) was meant to show what Lumon leaves in it's wake. It's implied that Cobels mom died from the ether poisoning, and Lumon both caused that death and prevented Cobel from saying goodbye. Cissy is a remaining artifact of Lumon - a True Believer - and is hated by the town for it.

I think this episode was meant to show a change of heart or a moment of opposite radicalization for Harmony.

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Especially when you consider getting written out of history fame and wealth as the creator of the severance procedure, and it's stolen by the same entity that literally took her childhood and mother from her

 

Right on, it was a great episode and world building. We saw a different city, learned some of the horror lumon leaves in their wake and reached a turning point with Cobel.  

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Just now, hornbri said:

I just caught up on 2 episodes this week. I think it is pretty clearly at least “7 innies” based on the conversations she was “just at the dentist” it is “always Christmas”. Imply each of those innies only existed in 1 room. 

They confirmed it in the production podcast hosted by Stiller and Scott that it's different innies in each room. They mentioned that part of the excitement and challenge with the episode was doing truly 7 different characters, and working with the set and costume design team to build each microcosm

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26 minutes ago, hornbri said:

Right on, it was a great episode and world building. We saw a different city, learned some of the horror lumon leaves in their wake and reached a turning point with Cobel.  

Not sure it was a "great" episode. But I feel like it was an essential episode for story building, and I think it was done well. It just wasn't "entertaining" because none of the characters we love were in it (nor were they in the previous episode). 

My wife and I took a bunch of edibles and tried to watch it on Friday night. We got about 20 mins in and realized we had no fucking clue what was going on, so we turned it off and watched a Mission Impossible movie. We rewatched on Sunday when we weren't higher than giraffe pussy.

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I stuck through season 1 and the finale was so good, I kept going on season 2.  I just find the whole thing to be a slog.  Great concept, but they keep adding and adding layers to the mystery without getting to the point.  The only emotionally resonant thing I have seen is innie Dylan and his wife this season.  They could have done the last episode in about 10 minutes.  

There are definitely some great things (Ms Huang, the overly fancy HR review), but mostly, I just feel like this guy:

 

monty-python-get-on-with-it.mp4

 

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44 minutes ago, Stringer said:

I stuck through season 1 and the finale was so good, I kept going on season 2.  I just find the whole thing to be a slog.  Great concept, but they keep adding and adding layers to the mystery without getting to the point.  The only emotionally resonant thing I have seen is innie Dylan and his wife this season.  They could have done the last episode in about 10 minutes.  

There are definitely some great things (Ms Huang, the overly fancy HR review), but mostly, I just feel like this guy:

 

monty-python-get-on-with-it.mp4

 

Every episode goes by in about five minutes for me. 

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2 hours ago, Stringer said:

I stuck through season 1 and the finale was so good, I kept going on season 2.  I just find the whole thing to be a slog.  Great concept, but they keep adding and adding layers to the mystery without getting to the point.  The only emotionally resonant thing I have seen is innie Dylan and his wife this season.  They could have done the last episode in about 10 minutes.  

There are definitely some great things (Ms Huang, the overly fancy HR review), but mostly, I just feel like this guy:

 

monty-python-get-on-with-it.mp4

 

The thing is going 5 seasons. Why would they need to start shrinking the narrative and wrapping things in a bow now?

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