Severance 1x02 Reaction

[@philbelanger2]

please try to enjoy every episode equally

[@viniciusgomes38]

i get it lmao

[@crunchyblade6829]

Lmao

[@kasrae192]

Love it 😂😂😂

[@laraamaro8908]

Omg love this 😂❤

[@lockeforeer]

sometimes forgetting to change a lightbulb is just laziness or depression - a character detail

[@XblasertX]

I think the no changing the lightbulb thing is just to represent how depressed he is

[@WholeFnShow1]

I took it as he wasn't ready to enlighten himself yet and is still in the dark about Lumon.

[@RenanArend]

@@WholeFnShow1 I live with chronic depression and it's not that deep, sometimes when there's so much pain you just stop caring about a lot of things, little things like chores, like changing lightbulb, but yeah you can think like that in the light of the show but at the same time, Mark is someone in deep, deep grief depression.

[@Azure1964]

The "innies" only have a memory of 2 or 3 years, so they are like toddlers in some ways. That's why they love the finger trap prizes, waffle parties, etc.

[@THExRISER]

And also, I mean, what else are they gonna do, they enjoy the little things because that's all they have, because there's nothing else to enjoy.

[@edwardlwittlif]

1:08:15 I once had a job that *literally* exploited my grief. My best friend in my twenties was a cartoonist and an animator. He died unexpectedly, and as a favor to his family, I reached out to some of his clients to let them know what happened (so they wouldn't have to have the same conversation over and over). One of my friend's clients offered a lot of condolences and then asked me if I was also an animator. I dabbled, so they offered to pay me to finish the animation projects my friend had been doing for them. I was pretty broke at the time, but more than that, it seemed wrong to let my friend's projects go unfinished. My friend's client leaned into that, too- like, "it just seems right to finish what he started, doesn't it," etc. They ended up stringing me along and dramatically underpaying me compared to what they promised, and I let it happen because I was grieving and wanted to complete my dead friend's unfinished projects. And the client knew I was grieving, and they used that to take advantage of me. I've had meaner, ruder, and flakier bosses, but that client might still be the worst human beings of the bunch.

[@RGMyers24]

We do not react to reality, but to the meaning we give it, which is why each person is affected differently. We are the sum of our memories and experiences. That makes us unique but also a bit isolated. This series is fascinating, I look forward to the second season.

[@Negentropy369]

Each person is an island. Existing in a universe of their own. Each of us project our own perceptual framework onto everything we experience, including all communication with other beings. There is nothing truly solid in reality, all form is a simulation of mind. 99.99% of everything is empty space, just fields of energy spinning and vibrating at different frequencies. Also, I really love the severance theme song. Revel in the absurdity of being!

[@ldaniel022]

You guys should watch FROM, of you want something spooky it is genuinely an extremely spooky and mysterious show. Extremely well done

[@richardfeynman4452]

Oh my, Y'all gotta do Dark. A rewatch is almost as good as the 1st watch, you realize so much little details. The show is awesome and I love it's soundtrack.

[@colonelsanders2038]

Dark is the best show ever for theorizing after episodes. It's insane. Amazing writing that it actually comes together and makes sense. EDIT: Lame, one of them already watched Dark.

[@thejadedjester4935]

@@colonelsanders2038 they mentioned that in the first episode, and the comment you replied to knew that and is fine with it. You're being lame.

[@hippityhoppityw]

"Nuke this place." -Lola lmao

[@nebnos]

dark is my favourite show OAT with mr robot and aot, so I would literally do anything to see you guys react to it, even if lola had seen most of the show I think that in a way could be a really fun dynamic to see how you both react also, 3x7 and 3x8 (the last 2 episodes) are both in my top 3 of the whole show along with 2x6 so you literally just missed the peak of the show 😭I pray you guys react to it one day

[@Kiluei]

I just finished season 1, its quite an interesting show. I'd say it's a mix of The Leftovers, Mr. Robot and Westworld all in 1 with its own twist of course.

[@Lucas-st1xq]

One of the worst aspects of human greed is the "need" of enslaving others to alleviate your daily burdens. The concept of humans developing methods of enslaving themselves is amazing, I got hooked from the first episode

[@tmtmtg]

Love that you guys are starting this. Seriously one of the best shows ever

[@joeb588]

I think about the scary numbers scene so often, it makes me laugh about the stupidity of my own job. I guess I should be horrified too.

[@aj897]

13:05 The only reason why you’re scared of something is because of memories you no longer have access to, so your brain won’t have any reason to be afraid if it doesn’t remember.

[@TheLoonyLovebad1]

I don't think that's true. People who have had traumatic experiences often have their memories blacked out of those experiences. They would still have PTSD and can get triggered without remembering what caused it

[@rinkusan978]

@@TheLoonyLovebad1 but irl is that a case of trauma despite losing those memories or subconsciously blocking those memories? (I'm only on episode 2 btw)

[@potpot9827]

You guys are my soulmates 😊 The shows you've mentioned like The OA, Fringe and Dark are literally some of my favorite shows ❤

[@SidPhoenix2211]

Here for just how utterly horrified Lola is re: the ethics and realities of the Severance Procedure because SAAAME lol

[@laioren]

I'm loving both of your questions, theories, and analysis. Keep it going!

[@fojemo1661]

One of the best TV intros!!!

[@StephenRichmond89]

In horrifying news, on the "if someone was an arsehole and you didn't have your memories would you still feel uncomfortable around them?" front, we know for a fact that the answer is yes because of epilepsy treatment. So, this is not very common now but, in the past, especially for extreme cases, they would remove parts of the brain that were regularly getting otherwise untreatable seizures. Before the case I'm about to describe there were people who had had one of the two hippocampuses in their brain removed with no ill effects, so everyone though to would be fine to remove both. However, when they did remove both from a patient for the first time, the patient in question never formed a new autobiographical memory (personal memory about their own life, like the ones removed in Severance) again. There was a particular doctor who thought it would be "fun" to prank the guy with one of those electric buzzers that hurt but don't cause permanent damage because the guy wouldn't remember. He didn't remember the incident, but from then on disliked and refused to trust that doctor ever again. I would assume these cases are googleable and I'd recommend looking them up. It's genuinely fascinating. The other one relevant to Severance is that you can cut the connections between the left and right sides of your brain, and one of the two halves controls speech, so you can ask it questions and get perfectly normal answers. However, as each side of the brain controls only one eye and one arm, you can also cover the eye connected to the side that can speak, show the non-speaking side of the brain something, ask the speaking side about it. They then won't know the answer because they didn't see it (as it wasn't shown to the eye connected to that side of the brain), BUT, the non-speaking side *can* point to the correct answer! So... that's terrifying. We also know from people who've had damage only on the speaking side of the brain that the non-speaking side can then learn to speak. So, hypothetically, you could do Severance? Maaaaayyyybbe? You could disconnect the two sides of the brain, and then sedating one side of the brain at a time, so that only one is active and in control at any one time. We know that that works because it's how dolphins sleep. They sleep on just one side of the brain at a time (so that they can stay active and swimming around while they sleep). Also, there's a woman who had literally one of the two halves (the normally speaking half in fact) removed as a child because of very severe epilepsy and she's honestly just completely normal. Indistinguishable from anyone else. Again, I know that sounds impossible, you obviously should not trust a random KZbin comment from me, definitely worth looking up yourself! All that said, 1. I'm clearly writing far too long a comment about a thing we can't functionally do in real life, even if *maaayyyybebeeee*, it's closer to possible than a lot of other things in science fiction. Also, 2. For the disconnected two halves of the brain people, their emotions definitely carry over to both sides of a severed brain. You can show a scary, depressing, horrifying, whatever, bit of film to the non-speaking half and then the speaking half will become upset and uncomfortable and not know why. Which, again, absolutely horrifying. Which is unfortunate because that's not a TV show, that's reak life. Really managed to be cheerful here.... erm... hope anyone reading this is having a lovely day? ...Sorry? 😛 I promise the reason I know this is not that I'm an evil Lumin scientist! I had something affecting my brain a while ago and that was scary and how I chose to cope, wisely or not, was to learn everything I could about brains. False sense of control I suppose? It helped me though. Not as much as the fact I can take 1 pill a day and it almost entirely fixes the issue and I get my brain back, which is also very cool, but it did help me to learn about this stuff. Finally it's come in useful? Ish? I just know that your mileage may vary, but my brain happens to be very important to me! Seriously though: brains, absolutely fascinating. Personally I think we should all have one!

[@milkypeanutsonafriday]

This entire series slaps

[@ceezyjeffezy2213]

Lumon feels like a Schrödinger cat. The numbers are either important or complete BS.

[@NotQuiteFirst]

I get a feeling that this is like LOST and the writers are just making up a load of meaningless mystery-boxes for the sake of stringing along viewers.

[@neeharikasingh4229]

@@NotQuiteFirst The writer has said that he has already written the ending of the show and 90% of the things have a specific meaning, not just some random bullshit. You should read his AMA on Severance subreddit. He has said that he they can finish the show in 3 or 4 or 5 seasons. It just depends on AppleTV+ how many seasons they are gonna give them so that they know in how many episodes they need to wrap up everything. So no, they are not just stringing along the viewers.

[@merlinsclaw]

42:44 PLEASE watch Pulp Fiction. PLEASE.

[@ak14459]

We totally need you two to watch Dark! The show is so complex I’m sure there’s a lot that Lola forgets or would pick up on during a 2nd watch!

[@karabomasibi2331]

Wait Lola never finished Dark? Can you two watch it together, Dark ends perfectly.. Do it

[@tdog790]

I know that would be amazing!

[@Milosh111]

Another great new show that mess with your brain is The Devil's Hour, it's British show starring Peter Capaldi and there's two (short) seasons so far (I think it should be three seasons total). I'd love to see somebody react, and would recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Dark or Severance...

[@SidPhoenix2211]

16:02 Ah yes, horrors beyond human comprehension, designed by humans.

[@biberiuscaldiusmero]

Really smart thoughts on Helly there from 1:12:57 onward, considering where they were in the series.

[@ComeOnMabena]

Yeah really smart

[@ComeOnMabena]

Yeah really smart

[@caribbeanman3379]

I don't think it's about the job. It's all about the Severance procedure. They're actually test subjects involved in a long-term trial of the Severance procedure. The Severance procedure if/when perfected will rake in billions of dollars in profits. Think of the applications: You can work in the government intelligence field like the CIA, seeing highly classified intel without risk of you ever divulging such information when you leave the job. The procedure also provides a legal loophole to practice what amounts to slavery. Employees can be abused, overworked, etc and they would have no recollection of it offsite, so there is no way to whistle blow; plus the employees are technically going to work of their own free will every day in spite of whatever unremembered abuses they suffer on the job. It makes for an insidious form of slavery where the employee himself becomes unwittingly complicit as a slave master in his own enslavement.

[@elia_simon]

The Severance intro is incredible! Have ya'll watched Westworld? That one would have you really thinking too lol

[@vegpedro7632]

How good is it after season 1? I remember liking first season of westworld a lot, but never continued

[@elia_simon]

@@vegpedro7632 I really loved season 2, its my favorite season. 1 was great. I didnt love 3 and 4 very much because the setting wasn't as cool as westworld but it was okay.

[@vegpedro7632]

I might watch it then, thanks for the answer

[@the_crypter]

@@vegpedro7632 Just stop at the end of Season 2

[@Negentropy369]

@vegpedro7632 season 1 is probably the best, 2 is pretty convoluted and confusing at first, but definitely still really good. I actually really enjoyed S3 a lot even though it's no longer in the park, I found that the philosophical questions were elevated in that season and I really grew to care about some of the characters more than the earlier seasons. S4 I think suffers from there not being a S5, as it was originally intended to be a 5 season story. I definitely didn't enjoy that one as much, it felt like it was setting up for the conclusion of the entire story arc but then we never got it.

[@Serryy]

They dont give a fuck what theyre doing. Theyre working at a job where they mess with your brain before you can start. So theyre likely very well compensated to make up for that. As long as they feel like theyre earning well, who cares? You dont actually work. You wake up after a work day and your body is tired and thats about it. Why would you worry about how much youre doing in there, its nothing to you. And why risk this sweet gig?

[@nc1609]

I think Christopher Walken is more known for people doing impressions of his voice

[@TheMarch-jn3rz]

I know him from Click the most.

[@TheBruceLeeUFC1]

I just caught something… the way milichek refers to death not happening at Lumon…

[@marymhassan]

Just to clarify so far only the people who work on the computers are severed because Milchick had his memories when he was talking to Helly infront of the stairs so it means that Graner who takes them to the " break room " is also Not severed, basically everyone that has some kind of power in lumon is Not severd .

[@JohnnyPappas]

Lola is onto something, good analysis!

[@barbarino2000]

Lola seems to want the whole story explained immediately in the first two episodes. Lol. That would make for a very short, uninteresting series.

[@1999_reborn]

Your outie values water.

[@Ryusevi]

Omg watch Dark it's not that many episodes and truly unforgettable. And lola finish it lol

[@FlixVBN]

You guys should zoom out the camera frame so it can capture the setup and entire reaction. Would make it 10 times better

[@Psyché14-f]

Severance its a little of Black Mirror, Dark, Mr.Robot, OA, Truman Show ... 🙃 🧠

[@inkedge1519]

You guys should read the lexington letter

[@corpusD]

You should see the music video: Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim

[@Aussie27Legend]

"they should nuke this place" real

[@barbarino2000]

They have not seen Pulp Fiction!!!

[@caribbeanman3379]

A bit of advice: Maybe try to avoid talking too much during the episode. Of course it's a reaction so I get that you have to comment, but don't go overboard - especially in talking about stuff that is not directly related to the current scene playing out. As much as possible, limit comments to what's happening in the moment. At the end of the episode, you can then review and comment about your thoughts on the show itself and the storyline and your theories about the characters, etc. The reason it's not a good idea to talk too much during the show is that what can sometimes happen is that you might talk over some very important dialog and miss something interesting that would make for a good reaction. This can be frustrating for a viewer expecting to see your reaction to something they know is coming only to realize that you've completely missed it because you were distracted by what you were saying.

[@catherinemullins937]

Do solo reactions of DARK then watch the final season together!!

[@ComeOnMabena]

Please react to Dune the movies

[@ernestorodriguez791]

👍🏾

[@Klayhamn]

i feel like you miss 50% of the episode by talking over it. it's a shame cause in shows like this, details are important.

[@pvilches06]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@BobRyansaul]

One is trying to pay attention, listen to show, the other just blabs over it. 😢

[@cliveklg7739]

'Possible Spoiler' . . . . . 'what if they lobotomize them again?' That would be a crazy twist in later seasons, if there were different layers of severence.

[@clorocks3401]

im pretty sure there was a reddit q&a with the shows creator and he said so far characters can only be severed once. But i guess that can always change in later seasons 😳

[@indade]

"You've....got a flat tiya.......you should be....Walken." Rick and Morty.

[@darkphoenix2]

lol, I get that this show is interesting and makes you think, but I have no idea what you two are talking about for half of this video, try to relax a little bit 😅

[@hmg9665]

You need to focus on the show and stop talking so much!!! At the end then you can talk shit!!!

[@SLM977]

I’m sorry but Lola’s is beautiful

[@billthomas478]

They both are. They're also both wife material. Not sucking up, just making an observation of facts

[@s717w]

Cringe

[@creadordepan293]

Day 102 of asking LM reacts to see gurren lagann

[@kevincucumber1118]

Omg melanias legs I cantttt

[@SLM977]

How so?

[@s717w]

Cringe

[@kevincucumber1118]

@@s717w drop the OF

[@cadleo]

This is my least favorite Sopranos episode.

[@fvc1612]

At least episode 9 is one of those episodes where people can't fake their reaction because the need of staying focused

[@McShaganpronouncedShaegen]

I had to binge this after I saw the first episode with you two. I will say that keeping the viewer in the dark may keep people watching but, it does not make for a great story.

[@armageddon442]

Hard disagree, one of the best shows of the past few years

[@McShaganpronouncedShaegen]

@@armageddon442 How can you say it is a good story when you have no clue as to what the story is. I am glad your interest are peaked but, you cannot tell me what is happening. You cannot tell me why any of it is happening. There is no story here, you are only seeing a small part of what is occurring with out any frame of reference. In truth they could tell you that this was a small group of people that were kidnapped moved to Greenland with various parts of their memories erased to study their dating habits.

[@armageddon442]

@ A story is not bad just because all of its elements aren’t spelled out to the audience. Yes, certain things about the wider world and what Lumon does are left unknown (so far). However, there is still a very clever and compelling story here about a group of people attempting to escape the corporate rabbit hole once they realize that the company does not have their best interests in mind, and they don’t even know what effect on the world their work has. It’s a great surrealist take on modern corporate America, and whether or not you like the show there is undeniably a story here.

[@TheNarria]

​@@McShaganpronouncedShaegenve you watched attack on titan?

[@McShaganpronouncedShaegen]

@@armageddon442 How can I like or dislike something that isn't there. It was compelling to watch but, so was Heraldo Rivera digging through Al Capones vault and look how turned out. So far this is the same formula that was used in West World. Deceptive writing with hopes of making sense later down the road does not always turn out for the best. I tell you what. Lets meet back here after the end of season 2 and compare notes. Deal?

[@nedcarlton409]

16:12 “I think we should nuke this place” perfect! 🤌🏻😘🤌🏻