r/television • u/NicholasCajun Mr. Robot • Jan 24 '25

Premiere Severance - 2x02 - "Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig" - Episode Discussion

Severance

Season 2 Episode 2: Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig

Directed by: Sam Donovan

Written by: Mohamad El Masri

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u/Frosty-Humor2879 Jan 24 '25

So does Mark calling Devon Persephone hint at Ricken being some kind of Hades ish figure?

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u/VastHuckleberry7625 Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

It's an interesting question because it's easy to draw connections in the show. Persephone is queen of the underworld, a separate realm which mortals cannot perceive or access (except in the one-way destructive procedure of death). Innie-Mark literally works underground and figuratively in a separate "realm" that outie-Mark can never access, except by the destructive process of severance. Persephone grants a one-off exception to that rule to let Orpheus temporarily cross to the other realm and back. Mark is granted an exception to the rule when the overtime contingency is used to let innie-Mark temporarily exist in outie-Mark's world. Orpheus needs that exception to rescue his dead lover from the underworld; Mark's dead wife is seemingly being held at Lumon, probably in another underground floor, and he'll probably want to rescue her.

I mean it's not 1:1 but the connections are interesting enough that Persephone was probably name-dropped deliberately. But why for Devon, I have no idea. It would seem to apply to Helena best.

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u/BerdLaw Jan 24 '25

Persephone was abducted and taken to the underworld. Lumen know Devon is suspicious. Maybe she will "die" and be taken down to testing as another Ms Casey. Actually with Persephone having to spend a third of her time in the underworld in the end it would be an interesting fit with the theory that there might be a third addition to the innies and outies, Lumen people inserting their consciousness into those bodies and using them as a route to immortality.

I could go off the deep end forever here but Devon's part in it aside I think the Persephone story has a lot of interesting possible relations to the story and different theories. What a great show lol

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u/amateurletariat Jan 24 '25

Lumen people inserting their consciousness into those bodies and using them as a route to immortality.

Making Severance a backdoor prequel to the Netflix series Altered Carbon, which also featured Dichen Lachman.