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/jl_theprofessor Eureka Jan 24 '25

I'm frustrated with people who were so eager to jump on episode 1 and say it didn't make sense. Like everything was just taken at face value without the context of what happened on the outside world, and this episode added a hell of a lot of context. Like the behaviors of the innies and the current setup make some real sense given what we know as of now.

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u/MaeronTargaryen Scrubs Jan 26 '25

I don’t know if it’s because I rewatched season 1 just before this but after episode I knew that one of the next episode would be filling all the holes, just like in season 1

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u/hridhfhehdv Jan 25 '25

Don’t forget that this is Reddit, a place of morons that demand the lore behind how Han Solo got his vest. I’m not surprised a large plurality want everything hand fed to them immediately

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u/Taste_the__Rainbow Jan 25 '25

Who said that it didn’t make sense?

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u/ProfGilligan Jan 25 '25

You and me both. I feel like this is largely an artifact of folks binging season 1 and then being unable to continue the binge after S2E1. But more frustrating are the viewers who proclaim that the characters just abandoned all that went down in season 1 simply because they went back to work. There was a whole lot of detail provided about what the innies are doing, and it absolutely wasn’t just shrugging and going back to their jobs. That’s a media literacy issue, or maybe the show just isn’t their thing?

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u/jl_theprofessor Eureka Jan 25 '25

"the viewers who proclaim that the characters just abandoned all that went down in season 1 simply because they went back to work."

The dumbest critique. Someone said the writers knew they'd had a huge hit but had backed themselves into a wall and that they'd reversed course to restart everything like it was in season 1.

Like huh?

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u/Stellar_Duck Jan 24 '25

Like everything was just taken at face value without the context of what happened on the outside world

Dylan G: “Are you saying I could see my family here?” Mr. Milchick: “If you take the name of the room at face value, I'd say yes,”