Severance Season 1 Recap (Sort of) | Everything You Need to Remember

0:00 I would open this video by saying that sance was one of my favorite new shows in recent memory but with nearly 3 years passing since it came out I'm not sure new is the right way to describe it boy it was season one a lot of fun though part of that was that it came out of nowhere and at least at first no one was really watching it so for those of us who were it felt like we stumbled in on the ground floor of something that was quietly setting itself up to be one of the best things on TV a lot of the discussion around the show for the past few years is related chiefly to its Mysteries which is something it aims to get people to do but for me what works best is the nature of the any characters that's the secret ingredient as far as I'm concerned so that's what I'll be focusing on in this recap of sorts it's

0:47 been a long time and even if you're like me and was really invested in paying attention at the time you've still probably forgotten a lot of what happened in that first season the premise the show is built on is what if you could separate your work and home lives for real what if there was a procedure that would make it so when you went to work you shut off the part of your brain that you use when you're not there and became a whole different person or another version of yourself maybe is more accurate since it's the same body more or less functioning in the same way the key difference is your life experiences and generally speaking the things that make you the you you are are missing in the one who goes to work the enies are fully formed adults who can still access parts of the Audi's memories as a YouTube TV recapper I have

1:35 zero background in science related to Memories but I have been following the discussion on how this works and have spent a fair amount of time researching it long-term memory in humans is divided into two categories implicit and explicit memory implicit memory is used unconsciously and is important for enies because it allows them to perform tasks without being consciously aware of previous experiences think of something like taking a drink of water if you're thirsty and someone hands you one you just drink it without thinking and the first time you did that or any memory of learning to do it is inconsequential things like this are a part of your procedural memory and having access to that allows the enies to do everything they need to do at work explicit memory can also be broken down into two

2:20 categories semantic memories which are factual information you learn and then the most important one for in because they can't access it EP ex otic memories which are your specific personal experiences if you think back to hel's initial survey when she wakes up on the table on the severed floor the only question she can answer is the third one when asked to name any US state or territory she can fire off Delaware because the names of states are factual information she likely committed to memory as a child the test is a clever way to introduce the split if she knew the answers to the other four questions or couldn't answer number three the higher up would know that the chip wasn't working right the opening scene works well to keep us almost as disoriented as heli is since everyone

3:08 else on the floor is already severed she serves as the audience surrogate while we cluelessly watch her onboarding process it makes sense that Severance removes the sharing of episodic memories the lack of shared experiences creates a clean break between any and Audi which is reflected visually in the break in the letter R from the Season One logo not having to deal with work or anything their counterpart experiences there makes the process attractive for the Audi and it also creates this fantastic situation for a TV show where you have a bunch of adults who essentially have the minds of children running around trying to figure out who they are there's an innocence built into it that gives the writer so many possibilities to work with who would you be right now if another version of you were introduced

3:54 with all your experiences Stripped Away it's one of the many philosophical questions that proceed opens the door to and it's not surprising that the show opens with the question who are you because in a nutshell that's the question the series explores I mentioned the premise what if you could surgically induce a work life balance this idea works as a hook because we all have to work to Live While most of us wouldn't voluntarily sign up for severance it's not hard to imagine a mega corporation like Lumen introducing something like this that they could Market as a benefit for their employees it's also the kind of thing that you would have to consider if it was offered to you the idea sounds attractive before you think through what it would actually entail series Creator Dan Erikson came up with the idea while

4:40 working a series of temp jobs he found himself fantasizing about a way to just skip over the next 8 hours of his life so that it would immediately be 5:00 p.m. and he'd be on his way home he found it to be kind of scary which sets up the Sci-Fi angle of introducing a new piece of technology that changes this relationship sh to work we all have some connection to of course in the real world corporations don't do anything that doesn't maximize profit for their shareholders the trick is to make something as self- serving as Severance more palatable for the public that seems to be consistent in the show but in the world of severance where Lumen Industries is similar to a mega Corp like Johnson and Johnson or something along those lines you know they make just about everything you can imagine

5:26 they also happen to be a dynastic outfit with the called personality situation built up around their founder Kier Egan the key historical points we've been given are that Kier started lomin in 1865 they initially specialized in topical savs but have branched out into things like biotech medical equipment and pharmaceuticals on one end of the spectrum and based on the Lumen branded products we see around the office and in the vending machine just about anything else you could imagine the office where Mark s and the other mdrs work seems like it could could be the company's Global headquarters but I don't think it's ever been confirmed it's located in a town called Kier remember even though this show plays like a mystery box wrapped up in a thriller it's got sci-fi

6:11 bones in this version of the United States the town of Kier is in the state or territory that uses the abbreviation PE that isn't connected to anything that exists in our reality that change the idea that half of the City Works for Lumen marks living in a neighborhood that's subsidized by the company and just a general company Town feel from kier's image on the license plates his name on the local newspaper and local restaurants being named after past CEOs all seem to back that up I'm sure we'll learn more about how that all came to be in future Seasons but for now what's essential is that Lumen created the severance procedure the sever floor we spent most of our time in during season 1 is one of many we know from the Lexington letter the supplemental

6:58 material the show put out to explain things a little further that there's another MDR on a severed floor in Topeka the process seems to be somewhat common and is controversial some groups have formed to protest it such as the whole M Collective which we were first introduced to in episode two there are debates in Congress about it and we know that Lumen has bought the influence of at least one state senator to fight for their interests we also learned that just about everyone has an opinion on the procedure through a no food dinner party that Mark sister and her husband have with their friends in the series premiere while they're not the brightest Bunch which is hilarious since their whole existence is predicated on the belief that they are their concerns make sense plus as horrifying as Severance is

7:43 at work we learn that they have bigger things in mind hoping to expand the application outside their workplace one example was the Senator's wife giving birth while severed to essentially avoid the pain altogether to say that we don't know lum's true intentions would be an understatement let alone what the Egan Family itself is trying to do we can say that it's probably not good for anyone other than the company or the family and because they're so ingrained in people's lives their influence is formidable all of the Lumen CEOs have been eagans they all held the position until they died the current CEO J Megan is the eighth member of the family to occupy that position there's quite a bit of quirkiness in the family and one of season 1's biggest twists was that

8:28 refiner helar was the secret Egan all along she's not just a random cousin either she's J Megan's daughter which as far as we can tell would make her the next in line to run things because of her father's Advanced age that should be important as things develop but I'll use this familial connection to bring us back to the in since that's where I said I'd try to focus in the beginning the heli character serves as the entry point into the world of severed employees we learn about it as she experiences it from the opening scene we see that it involves an intense indoctrination process she wakes up on the conference table alone rather than getting a warm greeting somewhere comfortable the creators have said it's meant to be jarring and disorienting for the worker and to give them a sense that they've been born into this world the first

9:15 thing she hears is Mark's voice over the speaker which is meant to feel like the company itself is talking to her this extends to the way the office is put together for the first few episodes it's a bit confusing for viewers because the furniture and Tech all have a strange retro look making you wonder when the story takes place or if it's an alternate timeline situation while it is that to a certain extent the design choices are something Lumen does deliberately to separate the workers from their Audi lives further since heli Rebels against all of this from the beginning we get a pretty good idea of what they can do to your any while you think they're happily plugging along earning you a paycheck we learn about the code detectors which sound made up but apparently do work to prevent the from passing messages to the outside

10:01 world after several attempts to circumvent this fail safe which also helps viewers check off their list of ideas of how they might try to get a message out she lands herself in the breakroom this is the punishment enies fear most even more than things like the bad soap and spicy candy although the latter was related to a loyalty test rather than a punishment and I like that line delivery so much I just wanted to include it here the break room consists of a one-on-one session where the inie repeats something called the compunction statement at the same time their physiological responses are monitored for reference hel did 1,072 rounds over 2 days on her first trip the statement consists of them repeating this forgive me for the harm I've caused this world

10:47 none may atone for my actions but me and only in me shall their stain live on I am thankful to have been caught my fall cut short by those wisened hands all I can be is sorry and that is all I am they repeat this over and over until the person administering the session is satisfied this lines up with the indoctrination and disorientation and adds to the cult Vibes the employee is solely responsible and flawed they need to submit to the wisened hands of their managers and more broadly the corporation and in the case of lumen the perfect founder cure the break room is also something the Audi would never be able to know that their other self was being put through it's not the kind of thing that leaves a visible Mark and

11:32 it's the kind of thing I don't think many people would voluntarily sign up for if they knew what was going on this makes the Audi Helena Egan a lot more interesting to me out of all the refiners her Audi is the only one with inside knowledge about how Lumen keeps the Ines under control helar carries some part of her Audi sense of privilege from growing up in a rich and Powerful family with her on the severed floor she's the kind of person who wants what she wants and and expects to get it leading to an escalation when her Audi won't let her quit this shows us what the eagans think about enies after heli threatens to harm the body they share by cutting off her fingers with a paper cutter from the office Helena tells her in a video message that she isn't a person and doesn't get to make the decisions about what happens to them her

12:19 father Echoes this when he talks about enies at the end and you get the sense that they see them as disposable hired help that can be easily replaced holding them in lower regard than their other employees who you wouldn't imagine they think of very highly to begin with Helena's harsh message leads heli to an unsuccessful suicide attempt in the fourth episode it hits hard because the enies are so precious and heli was the one that was us we were primed to root for her right from the start and when even that wasn't enough to end her time on the severed floor it didn't break her completely instead the bleed over of Helena's drive and conviction made heli a catalyst for action once they learned about the overtime contingency and Mark discovered he was carrying around the head of Security's key card at the end

13:06 of the season we learned that Helena had the process done for a PR campaign to promote Severance and make it seem harmless this would help her family and the company she expects to run one day expand their patented process worldwide however their inability to completely neutralize the other version of her when the macro dats activate OTC themselves undermines this her innie wakes up during the family gala where they're promoting her Severance journey and tells the world that everything they've been told about the process is a Lie the Indies are being tortured and they're miserable down there the season 1 finale was a cliffhanger across the board and I'll touch on the different characters when we get to them but the way heli has become a liability for Helena makes her the hardest one to imagine returning to

13:53 work based on her important role in the main story I fully expect to see that happen but they'll have to develop a compelling reason to send her back I suppose it could be related to the budding romance with Mark s that was heating up when they kissed before leaving to do the OTC but I don't want to get into the weed speculating since things could go in so many different directions the main reason to expect helar to return is that if she didn't it would be like killing the character off since in's only take over at work after the chip is activated they cease to exist if that never happens this is one of those philosophical conundrum Severance introduces and part of the dark side hel story highlights if any are unhappy working there the obvious solution would be to quit but that's an

14:39 end for them that isn't that much different than what heli tried to do with the extension cord in the elevator to get back at Helena so the working situation is cruel the enies never asked to be brought into it and their only way out is non-existence this is why a severed person might consider reintegration this is where pdk came into into the picture he was the refiner hel replaced Mark was his good friend and he was Mark's best friend pety wasn't around for long but introduced the idea of unifying the inie and outy memories and provided the connection to rabi the mysterious former Lumen employee who says she's cracked the reintegration process considering the adverse complications pety experienced and presumably died from and

15:25 the fact that the Lumen board is adamant that it's not possible her claims come off as somewhat dubious at the same time Peter Kilmer and pdk were reintegrated into the same mind before his life ended coel was able to have that confirmed through the lab from the phone py Left Behind Mark eventually meets up with this person who put the severance chip into his head and rabi tells him that py didn't die from the procedure he died from not following her posttop instructions and running away at the first signs of sickness she's the only person who's been able to pull rein a off and this has to be an essential part of the story going forward since it would be hard to imagine it ending with all of the enies Just ceasing to exist if hel was the severed Floor season 1

16:11 rebel Irving B was her polar opposite he's been working in MDR the longest and is a stickler for Department procedures he's incredibly knowledgeable about the history of the company and the employee handbook that he likes to quote in conversation this is endlessly fun and also shows how limited the in sources of information are 's devotion borders on fanaticism but then you think it's based on the only things he's ever read Irv would be a model employee if he could stop dozing at his desk during work hours when he falls asleep at his terminal we see that he has a recurring dream involving black goo invading his cubicle his napping on the clock gets him sent for a wellness session where a delightfully strange character named Miss Casey tells him facts about his

16:56 Audi in the most soothing way you could possibly imagine we'll come back to her but the key thing that happens here is that he meets Bert from o d for the first time an aspect of the indoctrination is to keep the department separated part of the disorientation is that no one even knows how many departments there are and it's rare to see anyone who's not a part of yours if you think of the example of hi her co-workers and the few members of management she's encountered are the only people she's ever met and when you think about it like that it kind of makes sense but keeping them separate also limits the possibility of inter office relationships this is where the magic of how the enies experience things really shines because an immediate unmistakable chemistry exists between

17:42 urb and Bert it doesn't hurt that they're both played by incredible actors who also happen to be senior citizens who can sell the bonding they do over Kier Egan's quotes better than possibly anyone else on the planet but their Ines are something like 3 and 7 years old respectively they're bloom assing relationship gives us some of the best exchanges of dialogue imaginable all laced with lore and World building that can almost slip by you as you're being captivated by how odd but also pure and human they're getting to know each other is it's one of the necessary bright spots in an otherwise fairly Grim tale and by encapsulating so much about what makes the show's formula great it's one of the first season's highlights until it ends before we get into that I have to address a character I've been able to

18:27 dance around up until now Seth milch is the supervisor on the severed floor who presents as being everything you'd want from someone holding that position he's upbeat friendly and personable appearing to have his employees best interest at heart it's in the corporate office setting kind of way so it all feels a bit fake but traml tilman's performance is so good you tend to think that Underneath It All he's a good person who cares he's also the guy who administers the breakroom sessions and is a company man first and foremost by the end of the first season we learn that the nice guy stuff may just be a front and advancing at his job might be what he's really about we see him tank the career of his boss who will come back to in a bit and he does so in a fairly calculated way you might be able to make an argument

19:13 that he did what he did because he really cares about the company but that wouldn't exactly win the character any sympathy points overall milch is an outlier amongst the enies he's the only unsed person he appears to believe in kier's Vision but also doesn't see seem to have been brought up in it in the way Natalie or coobel do as a quickest side there is one other character in this extended Universe named milch that we know of we see that name in The Lexington letter from an editor at the Topeka newspaper named Jim milch who plays a part in burying the severance whistleblower story after she's killed in a car accident there's no way to say if that will turn out to be important in the show but that they gave him the same name seems like something I should mention to get back to Irvin Bert MDR

20:01 spends most of the Season making things difficult for milch as they get increasingly curious about the world outside of their Department following hel's arrival as 's attention starts to turn toward Bert Seth initially tries to se division by running what they refer to as a 266 this consists of accidentally printing out a painting on the MDR printer which shows a violent dispute between the two departments that backs up an office smth when that doesn't work the two departments keep getting closer and start talking about teaming up to get answers about what they do there when things heat up MDR is disciplined and then IR learns Bert's inie is being retired there's no way the enies could know for sure but the timing certainly makes it seem like Lumen

20:47 pushed him out that gets Irv on board to help the others with their OTC Plan before that happens we see one scene of his Audi at home and learn that he drinks coffee to stay up late and paints the same painting of a black hallway the implication is that he's trying to get this image to bleed over to his innie in herv be falling asleep at work to have the recurring dream shows that it almost works when he wakes up at home and we learn more about his Audi there are some startling differences he's ex-military and appears to have been investigating or at the very least researching lumen in the severance program it's hard to say precisely because we see is awakened and he explore the apartment alone trying to put the pieces together himself he sees the paintings of the

21:33 dark hallway and a steamer trunk where he keeps his father's Navy uniform that has a hidden compartment filled with news articles about Lumen and internal documents including a list of severed employees seeing Bert's name on the list and his address marked on a map convinces him to abandon the plan he drives to his house where he sees him with his partner through their front window the season ends with him knocking on their door just as his Audi is about to wake up as the OTC is deactivated the Revelation that bird is with someone else in his Audi life isn't a big surprise from the outside looking in of course the Audi have lies completely independent of the enies that's the whole point and on some level herb

22:18 understands this at the same time that's not how the heart works and as I mentioned earlier we're talking about someone with 3 years of life experiences that all revolve around time spent working in a cubicle there's no question he'll be devastated when he returns there what's more intriguing is the image he obsessively paints there's a question about how is Ali would have seen that elevator but I think we can safely speculate about this without getting into any tin foil the show created fake LinkedIn profiles for the characters and the one for herb says he's been at Lumen for 9 years we know he's been working as a severed employee in MDR for three of those so the simplest explanation is that he worked worked on the severed floor before having the procedure in a roll similar to mil chicks one clue to back this up

23:05 is that when we see Miss Casey approached the elevator in the dark hallway we noticed that she can't see the red arrow she even asked Seth if her Audi is Happy up there when we know that she's being sent down to the testing floor the down arrow doesn't appear until the doors close so you can never see it unless you watch someone go down based on his ongoing interest and cash of documents it's possible he saw something while working there that put him on this Crusade and to further that he went undercover as a severed person the macro dats learned about the overtime contingency because of their first visit to the back room in o d while they were there Dylan G pocketed an idiographic card that they had printed which forced milch to wake him up at home to find out where he put it

23:51 while he was awake Dylan accidentally saw one of his three kids I know we should try to enjoy all the refiners equally and the characters and performances are all amazing in their own way but I'm just going to come out and say that Dylan G is my favorite Zack Cherry's performance is a big part of it but it also goes back to what I said about Irvin Bert's courtship this is a pretty dark story the parts that take place on the outside where the lead is wholly tortured in a different way could really skew things in that direction since you know the Ines are essentially trapped as thought-provoking as it all is it still manages to be one of the funny dramatic shows out there and Dylan delivers so many of the best lines unfortunately since he stayed behind to activate the OTC there isn't as much to

24:37 say about him as the others heini is an achiever who's been named refiner of the quarter multiple times another one of those details that leans into the in's limited experience is how he's really proud of the perks and tiar incentives he's earned for his accomplishments if Irv was a beacon of Conformity and procedure which makes sense because of his Audi's military background Dylan is all about the work and without a better word to describe it tribalism let's just say he's protective of MDR and very suspicious of other departments the only thing we know about his Audi is that he appears to be a family man finding out he had a son set in Dylan on a destructive path that culminated in him biting milch and bringing hel's music Dance Experience to an end before he

25:25 activated the OTC Dylan was also our window into to the waffle party this is the top reward given to the refiner of the quarter although it had been mentioned several times during the season it was still a complete surprise when we learned what it actually was after a delicious looking plate of waffles the empty plate encourages the refiner to go to the Founder's bed there they put on a mask that looks like Kier and indulge in a sexual experience with four strangers who are also masked and dressed up as the four tempers Dylan skips out before the actual sex gets going but the waffle party seems to unlock a whole different level of Egan family strangeness the four tempers introduced early in a painting outside of Wellness are part of kier's philosophy he believes every human soul

26:12 possesses some quantity of the four tempers which he defines as woe Frolic dread and Malice these also show up in the employee handbook in relation to the numbers the refiners see on their screens you can also see the abbreviations on the bins to make it appear as if they're balancing the tempers as Kier would want them to earlier I mentioned that they started collaborating with o d to try to figure out what they do I meant that literally because they really have no idea what their job is this big mystery fuels a lot of speculation surrounding the show and it's been around so long now that the theories just keep getting crazier I won't spend a lot of time on it because it'll probably be answered and turn out to be fairly simple but I will say that

26:57 the basic Clues tell us they are balancing tempers in air quotes and we know there is a testing floor in the building where they are presumably testing things I imagine these two things might turn out to be connected and the only thin evidence I have is that Mar s has that laser eded Crystal head on his desk that we found out he got after finishing a file in one day they usually take multiple weeks and we know his wife who is Audi believes is dead is alive in some capacity on the testing floor which may have given him some unique insight into that file the work is mysterious and important Mark is the final Maat we need to discuss and the question surrounding his wife or positioned to be the Catalyst for

27:43 everything that happens after the first season losing her in a car accident puts mark on his path to becoming severed he's depressed drinks way too much and honestly thinks switching his brain off for8 hours a day could be helpful he goes as far as saying being severed is helping him multiple times but this feels more like a situation where he's trying to convince himself as much as anyone else when you initially consider Severance as a solution and the motivations for people who would sign up for it the first things that come to mind are people who are unemployed and just need a job low wage earners who could get a significant bump something like what you see with Peggy K in the Lexington letter and people who find themselves doing mindlessly repetitive tasks all day and the those cases the

28:29 exploitation isn't any less disturbing but you can understand a person needing to survive Mark's case is particularly haunting since you know he's chasing something that technology can't provide still his desperation makes it so he can only imagine something like that something external that doesn't come from him working before Lumen he was a World War I history Professor his wife Gemma taught Russian literature and it's implied they likely met when they were both working at gan College we don't get many details beyond that other than knowing this is part of why it's hard for him to return to work after she died and it's notable that when he first meets rabi she's hiding out in a part of the college that seems abandoned the only person Audi Mark seems to be close

29:14 with is his sister Devon she's concerned about his well-being and isn't convinced that working on the severed floor is helping she wants him to see a professional and points out that forgetting about Gemma for 8 hours a day isn't the same as he she's expecting her first child with her husband ricken who as I've already hinted is a bit much although in the most entertaining ways sometimes you wonder how he landed Devon but they do seem to fit together well in their own way he's a writer and leaving his latest book as a gift on Mark's porch sets off a series of events inside Lumen after Miss coell takes it in to have mil che check it for messages this draws on everything I've been saying is so excellent about the IND when they get a hold of it it's the first book they've

30:00 ever read it's about identity and it blows their minds which it should I said earlier that the question the show explores is who are you and then who would you be if your experiences were Stripped Away and all of that the exploration continues because this process doesn't just create a different version of you regardless of what Helena told heli it makes a person someone who has their own experiences and needs to try to figure out who they are so the title is fitting the U are the exerpts we get from it are hilarious and we can see how they would grab a hold of those and the whole situation culminates in one of the series's best moments Dylan G the canonically best refiner finishes one of the passages Mark is reciting and declares page 197 slaps then they get

30:49 ready to implement their plan to wake up outside Miss coell keeps coming up and after Gemma she's the character with the most compelling Mysteries surround suring her while she's not severed she does live two separate lives as Mark's boss the manager of the severed floor on the inside and his neighbor who goes by the name Mrs Selvig and claims to run the shop in town called swab girl that sells soaps and bath bombs among other things her Shop's name references kier's wife imagene which we learned about through a painting irin Bert looked at together cabel touches on the relationship we nonseed have with our work selves she's a weird turned up to 11 example of how we all present ourselves as different people at work she's also a True Believer in C and his

31:35 wisdom and seeing her basement Shrine for the first time adds a whole other layer if you never seen it I highly recommend looking up the feature on set decor with the show's set director Andrew basan for a closeup look at some of this stuff from The Shrine we learn that Harmony attended the mytle Eagan School for Girls where she won the most observant and best use of Meal Time condiment Awards we also learned that her mother's name is Charlotte Cobell from a medical bracelet she displays alongside a hospital feeding or breathing tube on the Shelf she has an elaborate Shrine with Kier and Lumen memorabilia she's also recreated her bedroom from the school for girls with a needle point of the nine principles hanging above it and some creepy looking dolls of herself and cure that sit on

32:22 top of the bed she has a heightened interest in Mark that seems to go beyond his Department's making their quota or maybe it's all connected because who can say when you don't know what they're actually doing when they hit that as an employee her loyalty to the idea of Kier seems to transcend her Devotion to the actual Corporation she has a particularly tense relationship with Natalie who works as a liaison with the board she became fixated on reintegration after PD left in a way that seemed personal this which only seems to be rivaled by her interest in Mark and Gemma played a part in her doing things without the board's consent and ultimately led to her being fired when mil sent them the photos of hel suicide attempt which Harmony covered up her interest in Marg and Gemma is hard

33:08 to parse we know she knows the whole story of who they are and we even see her take a candle that belonged to Gemma out of storage in Mark's basement she gives that to miss Casey for a special Wellness session where she Burns it while any Mark sculpts the tree where Gemma had her car crash something he really shouldn't know about coel seems seems to want them to recognize each other but we don't necessarily know why this also makes her choice to retire Miss Casey somewhat confusing the obsession extends to the outside where she tries to get close to Devon through pretending to be a lactation consultant this positions her at Rick's place when Mark wakes up and by realizing what was happening when he called her by her work name Harmony's able to alert mil Che and race over to the gala inner White

33:54 Volkswagen Rabbit that I'll just mention here because I couldn't find a different place to slip that detail in her actions will probably help to get her back on the good side of the board but it still isn't likely they'll be ready to see her proof related to Petey's reintegration because they need that to be impossible well we spend most of our time focused on Mark who becomes a compelling character through a fantastic split performance from Madam Scott his Arc is pretty straightforward from their distinct perspectives both his inie and Audi start questioning what lum's up to he's unreceptive to the idea of reintegration when he first meets py and his adverse side effects and eventual death don't really help the situation there are several small pushes that should make him more sympathetic to his

34:40 any situation but in the end finding out Gemma is there will probably be the thing that gets him to commit I tried to avoid getting into too many of the finer details because it's a bit overwhelming for a video like this but there's been a lot said about the colors and Severance the red and blue for outside and inside something we see reflected and marks blue and red fish that are in the same tank but divided and separated and the loose reference that's there to the red pill and blue pill from The Matrix one detail I really enjoyed slightly more than the others was the robe Mark gave to reintegrated py which I'll add he got from ricken has both red and blue stripes it's not like it changes the story introducing py in any robe would

35:26 still make reintegration feel likely for Mark's Next Step but we're almost finished so I might as well indulge his season ends with his Audi seeing his wedding photo and realizing he was married to miss Casey he runs out to try to share this news shouting that she's alive but the OTC ends and his Audi takes over before he can explain who he's talking about the finale is one of the best hours of TV ever put together that owes a lot of its success to the intentional pacing and smart character development that fueled its tension the comedy romance and endless string of compelling Mysteries have set to table for whatever comes next Gemma slm Casey is one of those Mysteries where you are probably better off sitting back and just waiting to see what happens I

36:13 understand the impulse to want to solve a mystery box type show I made a video about it myself at the end of last season but it's really hard to tell what's going on with the testing floor and how this person who means so much to one of our refiners who also believe she's dead has ended up there at least with the clues we have right now for me the macro dats are enough oh yeah and there were some baby goats that's a thing that heli and Mark discovered when they were walking around it sort of fit in somewhere but for as much as people bring that up in relation of the show and as fun as it is to think about it I don't think I've ever heard a theory about them that seemed like it might be right I think that's everything you need to remember about season 1 and I think that's a great place to leave things please like this video If you enjoyed it

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