Dive deep into the mysterious world of Lumon as we explore the most burning questions from the hit series Severance. From Cobel's hidden motives to the enigmatic MDR department, we're breaking down the biggest mysteries that have left fans scratching their heads!
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00:00Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most burning questions
00:13we have leading into Severance Season 2.
00:15Be warned, refiners, there are major spoilers ahead.
00:18And please, try to enjoy all entries equally.
00:2210. Cobell's Motivations
00:29Harmony Cobell may be one of the most captivating TV villains we've seen in some time.
00:34That is, given she's a villain at all.
00:40Cobell is both the head of the Severed Floor at Lumen,
00:43and Mark S.'s seemingly harmless, albeit quite nosy neighbor.
00:47While we spent a fair deal of time watching her integrate herself,
00:50pun intended, into Mark's personal life,
00:53what we never fully come to understand is why.
00:56Are you really asking me that?
00:59Yeah. What is it we actually do here?
01:05We serve Kier!
01:07Do her motives have something to do with Jemma's alleged death and re-emergence
01:11on the Severed Floor?
01:12Does she have some personal stake in the Severance process?
01:15Is she actually as dedicated to serving Kier as she claims?
01:18No matter what the true reason is,
01:20we imagine the truth is far from Milchik's freaky explanation.
01:24We believe she developed an erotic fixation on you,
01:28and had plans to pursue both you and your outie in what might be termed a thruple.
01:34What?
01:349. The New MDR
01:37You can leave the balloons in the foyer by my old desk.
01:40We've much to discuss, and I don't want them distracting you.
01:43The premiere episode of Severance's second season
01:46surely spawned more questions than answers for expectant fans.
01:49Which, to be fair, is exactly what we anticipated.
01:52Of them, one of the more curious developments was the new group of refiners
01:56brought in to replace the rest of Mark's team following their uprising.
02:00I suppose you're Mark S.
02:04I'm Mark W.
02:10Who are you people?
02:11Apparently, they were in part transferred over from a defunct Lumen brand,
02:15assuming that they were to be retired permanently.
02:18So what happened to their previous branch?
02:21Also, exactly how many Lumen branches are there?
02:24Is the fact that one of them was shut down indicative of larger problems
02:27at the company that we're not yet privy to?
02:30And finally, will we ever see this new MDR team again?
02:33Time will tell.
02:34We tried for weeks to get them back, Mark.
02:38None of them agreed.
02:408. Dylan's outie life
02:43Okay, so what is going on?
02:44We're not in trouble?
02:45I don't think so.
02:46I mean, Milchik said our message got out.
02:47He said we're famous.
02:49All of us equally, or one of us is like the star?
02:51We don't care what anyone says.
02:53Dylan is the star of macrodata refinement.
02:56Having surrendered himself to manning the control board
02:58during their overtime contingency rebellion,
03:01we, the audience, see the least of Dylan in his outie form.
03:04Though we previously learned that he has a son,
03:06that's really all we know about his life on the outside.
03:09Milchik manipulatively discloses to him that he has two other children
03:13and a wife named Gretchen.
03:15But we find it hard to believe anything he says at face value.
03:18We have to wonder, what motivated Dylan to be severed?
03:22Famine, plagues, etc.
03:24So what is a desperate humanity to do?
03:28We can make some assumptions.
03:29Perhaps the pay or the benefits are particularly good
03:32for someone supporting a family.
03:34But knowing severance, we can't imagine the answer to be so simple.
03:37Maybe Dylan's outie has a dark secret that we're yet to learn.
03:41And no, we're not talking about the Milfs.
03:43I like to imagine my outie's love made with a Milfer 2,
03:46which is obviously badass, but I do pity the husbands.
03:49Number 7.
03:50The Security Office
03:52I think it's time for a field trip.
03:54To the security office where all the security guards work.
03:57Amazing, yeah.
03:58Speaking of the rebellion, when MDR breaks into the security office,
04:02we see a whole slew of control options available to management,
04:05which correspond with settings in the severed employee's chips.
04:08We know this to be the case,
04:10as this led to their ability to wake themselves up on the outside.
04:13So what else can they do with those pesky little mind control devices?
04:16I'll be upstairs after to let you know how it went.
04:21Sorry if I freak out on you a little.
04:25Don't worry, I'm very excited to meet you.
04:28There are settings like elephant, clean slate in Glasgow,
04:31which for now we can only make inferences about.
04:33But based on their names, they all have some connection to the mind,
04:37memory, and consciousness.
04:38For example, Glasgow is a term used in the measurement of brain function
04:42in patients in comas, and an elephant never forgets.
04:46As for clean slate, that one sounds pretty self-explanatory, and bleak.
04:51Will we see these functions come into play at some point?
04:53For the plot, we hope so.
04:55For the employee's mental state, not so much.
04:58I really wouldn't mention this to your colleagues, Dylan.
05:02This OTC is pretty neat to know.
05:05Understand?
05:06Number 6.
05:07Irv's paintings.
05:08I was just going in.
05:09I was admiring the art while I wait.
05:13When Irv wakes up on the outside during the overtime contingency,
05:17he's in the midst of painting a dark hallway,
05:19and at the end of which, a red elevator button shining down.
05:22We keen observers recognize this as the path to the testing floor,
05:26which we'd seen Miss Casey disappear into.
05:28First of all, what does Lumen do to employees on the testing floor?
05:32Why has Irv been there?
05:33And why does his outie have an obsessive recollection of it?
05:36I'm so sorry, sir. I'm just so sorry.
05:39Look, no one is hankering to throw you in the break room.
05:42We'll do a wellness check with Miss Casey and go from there, all right?
05:45Early in the first season,
05:47there are indications that his memories seem to be converging in a mysterious way,
05:51as Black Goop visually bleeds into his innies perception while at work.
05:55We know that he has a long history with the company,
05:57but has he been reset in a way that's unique to the others?
06:00I'm sorry. Please don't respond to any specific fact.
06:05That's 10 points off.
06:06I was just-
06:07Please don't speak further,
06:09or all remaining points will be deducted and the wellness session will end.
06:13Number 5. Rigabi and reintegration.
06:16You okay?
06:25Sorry. Reintegration sickness.
06:29The concept of reintegration is a particularly head-scratching one.
06:33When we meet Petey on the outside,
06:35we learn that he's undergone a procedure to converge his severance chip,
06:39so that he has access to both his outie and innie memories.
06:42This ultimately kills him, as there was a failure in the maintenance process,
06:46which we later hear from the rogue Rigabi.
06:48I'm sorry. Who are you?
06:50I'm the one who helped your friend.
06:53Helped? You mean reintegration?
06:55Killed him.
06:56The procedure didn't kill Petey.
06:58If he had followed my post-op instructions and not simply run away at the first sign of sickness.
07:02Rigabi claims that she installed the devices,
07:05and now aims to reverse the terrible work that she's done.
07:08We see very little of her,
07:09so it's challenging to know exactly, for lack of a better phrase,
07:13what her deal is.
07:14Now, not yet having seen any developments in the outie world since the events of the finale,
07:18there's a theory swirling that Mark may have opted to reintegrate.
07:22We can't know this for sure,
07:23but we have a hunch that Rigabi's character will return,
07:26and that we'll learn more about this puzzling procedure.
07:29I think you want to do what's right.
07:33Both of you.
07:34Number 4.
07:35Hallie or Helena?
07:36Gabby, this is Helena Egan.
07:40Oh my gosh, Helena.
07:42So good to finally meet you.
07:47Likewise.
07:48Arguably the biggest twist of the season one finale is the reveal that Hallie is actually
07:52Helena Egan, Lumen CEO's daughter.
07:55When she wakes up outside,
07:56she brashly reveals that she's actually Hallie,
07:59and that she's miserable on the inside.
08:01When she returns to work in the premiere,
08:03she makes the interesting choice to lie to her team about her outie's identity.
08:07I was watching some nature show on TV wearing sweatpants and a t-shirt.
08:12What kind of t-shirt?
08:14Did it feature like a band or pocket?
08:17It was like a Save the Gorillas shirt.
08:20Cool.
08:21I guess.
08:22This has raised the question,
08:24is the person we've seen back in MDR actually Hallie?
08:27Or is Helena posing as her innie self to sabotage their operation?
08:31There's a tiny easter egg that may be intended to imply the latter,
08:34as Hallie's newest file to refine is titled Santa Mira,
08:38which may be an allusion to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
08:41Less than a month ago, Santa Mira was like any other town.
08:44People with nothing but problems.
08:47Then out of the sky came a solution.
08:49Number 3.
08:50The Goats.
08:51Careful out there boss.
08:54Weird energy about.
08:55No, we're not calling MDR the goats, even though they are.
08:58We're talking about the literal goats that Hallie and Mark stumble upon
09:02when they're exploring the severed floor.
09:04They're not ready.
09:07You can't take them yet, they're not ready.
09:10It isn't time.
09:12We only see them and their frazzled handler that one time,
09:16and there's never any indication as to why they're there,
09:19or what they're going to be used for.
09:21But once again, we can use some of our outie knowledge
09:23and context clues to try and fill in the blanks here.
09:26Scientifically, goats have been used for cloning research since 1999,
09:30so there's likely some genetic experimentation going on at Lumen,
09:34which is being tested on this misplaced herd of cattle.
09:36What if the goats are the numbers?
09:39Like we're deciding which goats live in which ones.
09:42Oh God.
09:43I doubt it's that.
09:44Number 2.
09:45Where is Gemma?
09:46Why is everything in boxes?
09:48Evidently, Lumen's been blessed with a new wellness director.
09:52Now onto what may have been the biggest twist of the first season as a whole,
09:56the revelation that Mark S's wife, who was presumed dead,
09:59is actually alive as a severed employee at Lumen.
10:01As we mentioned earlier, we know that her severed counterpart,
10:04Ms. Casey, was sent down to the testing floor,
10:07but that's the last we see of her.
10:08Could I just-
10:09I'm sorry.
10:11I just have so much to do today.
10:13On you go.
10:14The final frames of the season 2 premiere seem to suggest that Gemma is alive,
10:19as we see her face in what appears to be some vitals flash on Mark's screen.
10:23While this clearly wasn't visible to Mark,
10:25this also implies that the work that he's doing at MDR has some bearing on Gemma's life.
10:29This will surely be a major plot point in season 2,
10:32and we're on the edge of our seats waiting to learn more.
10:36She's one of us.
10:40So if you want to help your Audi,
10:42so if you want to help your Audi,
10:44and find out what happened to her,
10:48I'll help.
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11:05And finally, the question on everyone's mind.
11:08Why are you a child?
11:12Because of when I was born.
11:14Oh wait, they answered that one.
11:15Never mind.
11:16Number 1.
11:17So what's MDR?
11:19I'm agog at how well I can tell you're already fitting in.
11:24The office feels whole.
11:27Now.
11:29Let's get this party started.
11:30We keep making reference to MDR, or Macro Data Refinement,
11:34which is the lumen department in which Mark, Heli, Irv, and Dylan are bound.
11:38But no one actually knows what they're doing or why they're doing it.
11:41The work is mysterious and important.
11:45And we deal with the uncertainty it brings us in the way that Keir would have wanted.
11:51Together.
11:53As a family.
11:54They're tasked with fencing off numbers on their screens,
11:57which are meant to make them feel a specific emotion.
12:00And as we predicted in the previous entry,
12:02it seems that there's some connection between MDR and the employees themselves.
12:06Though it's still entirely unclear.
12:08However, the fact that the team must be severed to complete their work,
12:12and that their innies are kept in the dark as well,
12:14seems to exhibit that there's something sinister happening in Macro Data Refinement.
12:19The surest way to tame a prisoner is to let him believe he's free.
12:23There's a cure quote for everything.
12:25Do you have theories about any of the questions we posed here?
12:28Fire them off in the comments.
12:30But I'm smart.
12:32That's why I have three times as many finger traps as you guys.
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