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schmendeler said:cr0wbar said:
Filmed in Newfoundland - that place looks cold.
Any guesses on the inhaler drug? Byproduct from the factory that decimates towns in their wake? Cobel hadn't gotten high since she was eight! Sissy needs to chill get take a deep breath too. Looked like a pretty ****ty spot for coffee.
Im pretty sure it's ether.
I never like this theory, because the Lexington Letter was from Topeka, KS and the MDR scabs in S2E1 were from a different branch. I think Kier, PE is probably very isolated but not self-contained. I think they just invented a place to add mystery and keep people from having pre-conceived notions about it.Mr.Milkshake said:
Clearly important to the story that we know Cobel invented severance, that she and Jame were likely close, and that the school fellowship is still ongoing (Ms Huong).
Still unclear why she is obsessed with reintegration and the potential for love transcending severance.
^ Unless someone important in the show that she loves is severed?
Episode probably ruled out a Russian/Soviet closed city
It doesn't seem like we discovered integral clues to the mystery in this one.
8 year old harmony cobel huffing paint then pulling out her graph paper sketchbook to INVENT #severance pic.twitter.com/uYuikTqdtx
— dooney and broke (@fincherslay) March 7, 2025
i can't believe i'd never questioned what would lead someone to invent the severance procedure. of COURSE it was born out of grief. wanting to spare the world from pain is the ultimate form of empathy, of kindness. but it ignores the brutal truth; there's no humanity without pain
— rosie ✨ (@HARM0NYC0BEL) March 7, 2025
the severance procedure being cobel’s idea, her living by a cold harbor which is the site of the grief she felt over her mother. i rly think this points to cold harbor as severing yourself from grief! #severance
— Cris ✨ (@lionesspike) March 7, 2025
i think now we have context for this part of the severance intro. her school notebook showed that most we've seen in the show were Cobel's ideas all along#severance pic.twitter.com/N0rmT7rrWf
— andrea 💚 (@andyydrawss) March 7, 2025
me every time i see a harbor in severance that looks cold pic.twitter.com/eV5IlcmX1t
— ashley ray🍦stream ice cream money (@theashleyray) March 7, 2025
TCTTS said:me every time i see a harbor in severance that looks cold pic.twitter.com/eV5IlcmX1t
— ashley ray🍦stream ice cream money (@theashleyray) March 7, 2025
I tried to form a timeline based on what we learned on episode 8 of season 2, and here's all of what I concluded 🧵:#severance @AppleTV pic.twitter.com/Bd173dc0x7
— 🦇 (@syphathegoat) March 7, 2025
This is my biggest gripe of the season. I feel like we have not spent a lot of time with our main characters since the Ortbo or it has been the outside world. What is going on with the Innies?BowSowy said:
I liked that episode a lot. I've actually really liked the last two, but I'm ready to get back to our main characters.
So Cobel is definitely going to be working with Mark to get back at Lumon. I do wonder why Helena was so dismissive of Cobel previously, knowing all that she knows and is capable of? Maybe Helena doesn't know what Cobel invented the damn thing?
Based off of the short conversation between Cobel and Devon, I got the impression that Devon has already been talking to Cobel about how to get him free. When Devon said, "We're going to try something else," it certainly gave the impression that Cobel was aware of what Devon and Mark had already tried.BowSowy said:
So Cobel is definitely going to be working with Mark to get back at Lumon. I do wonder why Helena was so dismissive of Cobel previously, knowing all that she knows and is capable of? Maybe Helena doesn't know what Cobel invented the damn thing?
I didn't quite take it that way. I assumed he was parroting Lumon's reasons for shutting down their Salt's Neck factory. Just a bunch of corporate bull. Sounds pretty reminiscent of countless mills, factories, and offices that have shut down in the US for various companies for years IRL.AustinAg2K said:
Another small point was when Cobel first talks to coffee shop guy, she says that the town looks older, and he replies something to the affect of, "After the market correction, the town struggled." I'm pretty certain that there was some major event that caused the whole world to fall into a depression, and that's why Lumon thinks severance is so important. They want to use it so the whole world can get past their grief.
Except that the college town from last week also seems completely empty now. Maybe it's just because it is winter, but everything seems completely dead. The Lumon office is the most vibrant place.BenTheGoodAg said:I didn't quite take it that way. I assumed he was parroting Lumon's reasons for shutting down their Salt's Neck factory. Just a bunch of corporate bull. Sounds pretty reminiscent of countless mills, factories, and offices that have shut down in the US for various companies for years IRL.AustinAg2K said:
Another small point was when Cobel first talks to coffee shop guy, she says that the town looks older, and he replies something to the affect of, "After the market correction, the town struggled." I'm pretty certain that there was some major event that caused the whole world to fall into a depression, and that's why Lumon thinks severance is so important. They want to use it so the whole world can get past their grief.
Yes, Cobel clearly created it to deal with her own issues, but Lumon sees it as an opportunity for something bigger.TCTTS said:
Also, this episode made it apparent that Cobel created severance for deeply personal reasons. It wasn't a response to some global financial tragedy. Granted, Lumon could have seen an opportunity to address said tragedy, but that's not the impression I got.
TCTTS said:
Possibly. I'm not discounting it. I just think the simplest answers are the more likely ones… that A) Lumon shut the factory down for the same, capitalistic reasons a million other corporations did/do the exact same thing, and B) everything is cold and dead simply because it's winter, and over the course of the show so far we've only been with these characters for less than two months, save for the Gemma flashbacks.
