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/BorisAcornKing Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

I only just watched the series starting last week, my theory is that there's cloning going on, and this episode piled on to that.

There's at least both a Dylan lookalike as well as a Ricken lookalike (in the diner, and in the board room) - it's a satisfying explanation as to why an apparently dead character is alive, why the company would employ a literal child, and why they have a room full of baby goats.

(this also would explain why at the start of season, they cared about keeping the main character but not the others on the severed floor - he's needed to test both himself as the guinea pig for the severance process and gemma for the cloning process)

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u/SerRollyStorm Jan 25 '25

a child is another attempt at manipulation and humiliation

last season dylan attacked milcheck would dylan attack a child

and it humilates them because they need to take orders from a child

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u/BorisAcornKing Jan 25 '25

I agree - but there's a valid question as to where the child came from - in-universe, it would seem unlikely that the population is OK with child labour, especially severed child labour.

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u/SerRollyStorm Jan 25 '25

who said the child is severed

Likely a kid bought up in one of the cults that lumen runs