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How many Severance rewatches constitutes as a pathology?

[cobelspuppy]

happy pride month!!!

[faint-glimmers-of-hope]

Gemma being at the center of Lumon's secretive operations, being the true meaning behind MDR's work, resisting torture for an extended period of time with nerves of steel, suffering the most extreme version of severance, yearning to come back to the real world and being a HOT RUSSIAN LITERATURE PROFESSOR only for some braindead people to call her uninteresting. Skill issue she's all I can think about

[gregsmth]

I get that! I really do. And I think Dichen is hot (I mean, if someone needs the simplest possible reason to love her character). But I just don't care. I don't know why. I watch Chikhai Bardo and it's clever and beautiful, my brain knows that I should care, but I just don't. I don't even blame the actors' chemistry, they look and feel great together. And then there is Zufu and it’s just an emotional rollercoaster, fireworks and shit. Cure me? I want to get better))

[allthethoughtsandstuff]

u guys i’m so disappointed in myself i’m watching severance for the first time and i was like no way is helly’s outie here on the severed floor the other characters would surely notice the writers must have just ruined her character now that she likes mark that’s so typical of tv i feel so betrayed…i fell for it u guys they got me i am no better than the rest of them

[gregsmth]

That's the point. If you don't have the knowledge that some technology/possibility exists and your friend/family member suddenly behaves slightly differently, you’ll just assume they’re having a bad day, etc. Your first thought won’t be «this is a completely different person.»

[nodded]

[gregsmth]

My relationships with phone’s ability to call in general.

[crumbledmountains]

my grad cap 😄

[gregsmth]

Good cap.

[ccasino]

Mind Over Matter

[cherrysodasunshine]

When Ms. Cobel was talking to Helena Eagan and she said “I think you’ve overestimated your contributions, and underestimated your blessings”, Cobel's reaction makes perfect sense considering what we later discover.

In that moment, she wasn't angry at Helena. That's not it. She was madly wrathful toward James Eagan and Lumon executives.

Becaus in that moment she realized: Helena Eagan doesn't know she invented the chip. James Eagan lied about that even to his own daughter! Even his own daughter is victim of Lumon propaganda, and the truth have been buried so deep not even the figurehead of the company knows it.

So far in the conversation, Cobel has been talking to Helena assuming she knows she was the inventor of the chip. But that single phrase from Helena made her realize the truth.

That's why she run away abruptly, and later decided to find her own original designs.

[illumonate]

it’s sooooo telling that during the overtime contingency, jame didn’t even notice “helena” was actually helly. esp bc she was, for obvious reasons, having a shit time of it and also so so so scared - barely keeping it together.

and he doesn’t even notice, because it’s not like he’s allowed helena to have a personality, right? there’s nothing for him to miss!!

if anything, it probably helped that helly was internally freaking the fuck out and trying to say/reveal as little as possible. from what we’ve seen, helena seems to be doing the same thing, albeit over a much longer period of time. trying to keep the facade intact.

so why would jame ever think something was off? a frightened compliant daughter is a frightened compliant daughter (until she isn’t).

[gregsmth]

Getting typecast as a straight nerd after P&R, he finally made it out to Severance and the world saw his true range. And he got typecast as a depressed alcoholic nerd.

[carolsturka]

helly: must be another the tactic….

the tactics master:

[blondebrainpowered]

Parks and Recreation, 2009 - 2015

[gregsmth]

RIGHT?!

[naidols]

Some Ben Wyatt (Parks and Rec) moments that my brain’s been looping as of late

[severancedeciphered]

I think this was taken awhile ago but fuck I miss them so BAD

[gregsmth]

Seeing them together feels wrong though (in severance world, not real world))

[vileiguana]

Your work fires you and tells you they're gonna give you severance, you're relieved because you think they'll compensate you financially and then your boss hands you this on the way out

[gregsmth]

Getting fired was worth it then.

[severe-thoughts-and-feelings]

he's such a whore!!!!!!!!!

[severe-thoughts-and-feelings]

he did it again!!!!!!!!!

[gregsmth]

ok now i’m gonna go and reread all markpetey fics real quick

[hauntedhotline]

I also love that Ohm attempts suicide, is unsuccessful, and is immediately put in a situation where he has to actively fight for his life

[gregsmth]

Maaaan. There's also a suicide attempt in this movie? When's the digital release? I'm in Russia and I don't want to watch it in a cringe inducing dub in the theatre. Even Adam Scott’s face can’t sell that for me. No offence to the people who dub it, it’s just not my thing.

[counterculturecryer]

don’t really get why the severance season finale is always reduced to Helly vs Gemma because it’s not a question of Helly vs Gemma, it’s a question of Mark S vs Mark Scout (and the overarching innie vs outie dichotomy). Mark Scout would’ve never chosen Helly and vice-versa for Mark S and Gemma, and so it’s a lot more about Mark S asserting his autonomy for his life and his refusal to submit to being a “subhuman” than it is about markhelly or markgemma because they’re different people who want different things

**to clarify the shipping is part is fine + I get having a preferred outcome, I’m just saying that’s not the entire significance of his choice (also how some make it out to be like he’s one person choosing one over the other, which he isn’t)

[gregsmth]

This. Also, the fact that in the original script, Helly wasn't even supposed to be in the hallway when Mark decided not to off himself. They (aka Ben) added Helly to the hallway for drama (which, as a markhellyna shipper, I’m glad about).