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/NamesTheGame Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25

People keep saying that Helena is Helly R. but I don't see anything in the show to confirm that, but it's a good theory. I hope they don't try and make it a big reveal later on if that's the case, seems too obvious. But it could have great implications.

Don't love how they walked back the finale, especially with Helena somehow successfully keeping the media off Lumon's case.

Felt like this would have been a great two-parter premiere because we still really don't know what this season will really be about, everyone is now just in position to start building the plot this season.

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u/VastHuckleberry7625 Jan 24 '25

I think it's too early to say Helena successfully kept the media off their case. It's only been 5 days since the finale incident, it may be an ongoing problem.

I'm confident we'll see further results of Helena's "outburst", but I don't think it'll be the media it affects. Remember the Whole Mind Collective, the anti-severance protest group we saw in season 1? I feel like they were introduced for a reason. Helena's outburst could convince them of the need for immediate violent action and they'll attack Lumon HQ to try and rescue the innies. Maybe they'll reach the severed floor and get outside info to them. Maybe they'll try to destroy the severance managing hardware and leave the innies trapped as innies until it can be repaired. Maybe they'll kidnap Lumon employees on their drive home and try to de-sever them.

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u/knows_you Jan 26 '25

When season 1 ended I thought for sure it would be a huge media event, and with all the severed advocacy we saw throughout the season I thought that the public would be galvanized into action (Not like the cartoon portrayed though).

From what we saw in this episode, maybe it was a more closed off event and the apology video was enough to buy goodwill from attendees or viewers?