r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus

i had one last night abt mammalians nurturable and it was so weirdddddd

I mean, if the goal is to discourage departments from interacting with each other, why not just physically separate them completely? That seems easier, less risky, and far more effective than spreading bizarre myths about O&D disemboweling people or MDR workers having pouches. And the departments don't seem to work together anyway, to each their task.

I like the show, but it often feels more interested in creating mysteries than resolving them. I finished both seasons with a huge number of unanswered questions. Some aren’t major plot points, sure, but they’re still details the show deliberately introduces and draws attention to, only to seemingly never address again.

Hello, I have a question about the relationship between the departments:

Petey tells Mark in episode 2 that the departments are separate, but in the same episode, Irving and Burt run into each other before their wellness session. And then the MDR runs into the OD again in the next episode, just like that, without any real issues.

Why isn't Lumon more concerned about this?

So I'm having a hard time understanding the relationship between the departments.

Why is there not more corporate slang in the show's dialogue?

When Lumon first conceptualized the experiment design for severance, before testing on humans, they did animal trials. This is common for medical research, especially if the intervention is invasive.

Interestingly, goats are highly social animals and, although not as mainstream as rats, IRL there are quite a few studies on their response to separation/isolation, so it makes total sense to use goats to test severance.

All Lumon experiments are probably trialed on goats before humans. I won't be surprised if the goats were also being tested on the Testing Floor before they introduced human subjects.

So it makes sense to house the goats being used for experiments and this is how the Mammalian Nurturable Services Department came to be - Most likely the first severed department to ever exist.

It's also why the goat was the chosen symbolic sacrifice once Cold Harbor was completed. Goats have been key to the development of Lumon's flagship service/product.

lets say you get the option for a severed job in a division such as macrodata refinement, nothing bad is going on on the severed floor tho, no rebels or anything. And you dont even know whats going on there because you go through the elevator and just go home. Would you take the job if you get payed well?

In season 2 finale, Devon is talking to iMark and says: "If we can prove that she’s still alive, if we can prove that they fu... kidnapped her..."

Cobel was in the room with them. She invented severance. And I think she was the floor manager before Gemma, so I'm sure she knows how Gemma initially came to Lumon. So why didn't she tell them what actually happened to Gemma? Why didn't they ask? Ofc, they don't know she invented severance, but they know she was iMark's boss. I know they're focused on rescuing Gemma, but the woman who's behind everything is right there. Or is it simply because the show runners didn't want to reveal it that soon?

Season 2 raised some big questions about her behavior. She acted pretty selfishly by trying to replace Helly, but it seems like she wasn't doing it for the company, she was doing that for herself, she got jealous of her own innie, wanted to experience what she had.

Her scene with Mark, where she says that she doesn't like she is on the outside seem to have a pretty big implication to her relationship with her father and Lumon, like she was forced to be a public face for the company. The breakfast scene with Jame made it seem like he has been controling her her whole life, maybe the decision to sent her into MDR wasn't her either.

Her character seems tragic, she simply doesn't know herself, but seeing her Innie as this unfiltered version of herself be so confident and strong, adventureous and fearless, made her realize what she could be without her family name.

It's all speculation of course, but it really feels like her character will stray further away from Lumon next season(s)

Kieran Culkin Eagan. He just gave a talk at my uni and this was his one piece of lore he dropped.