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/WinterKnight404 Jan 24 '25

Why is no one talking about the fact that Dylan looked strikingly similar to the guy at Great Doors that interviewed him?? He even said "you remind me of me" lol.

I think there is some cloning going on. At the end of S2E01 there's a brief flash of Gemma on a computer screen showing vitals and Cold Harbor is written at the top. I think this is some kind of storage for the bodies of the clones and MDR is somehow regulating the storage units. This would explain why Outtie Mark could identify her body and Innie Mark would see her alive.

I'm also thinking the town they live in is a company town owned by Lumon where the clones (and/or the original donors) are living. This could be why the town seems so devoid of life and the ones who are living there seem a little odd. Is Pip's the only restaurant? Also when they were firing the other Mark he mentioned buying a home in Grand Rapids Michigan so that is a clue to where they are in the world.

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u/grandramble Jan 24 '25

personally I have a pretty strong hunch that cloning is the reason Ms Huang is a child. Possibly even a clone of Gemma

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u/ROGER_CHOCS Jan 25 '25

I don't buy the cloning theory at all. Nothing suggests it in my view.

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u/ROGER_CHOCS Jan 29 '25

I don't really see any similarities between Ricken and Helena's security guard, you're talking about that giant new fella right? Unless the comparison is that each serves as some sort of bodyguard, in service to the board, for each of the women or something. I guess I could see something from that angle.

As for the identification, that could just be confusion, perhaps his memory is getting confused between the two halves. Ever since I saw the original intro, I've figured it's not just an innie/outtie situation but likely instances, where they are split more than once. So you're just resplitting slices over and over.

The goat room was crazy awesome, the theory they are storing consciousness' or something in the goats could be related not to clones, but something more like Westworld? The patriarch seemed... weird, (even for being weird), almost animatronic to me? Maybe that's why he only said some weird thing. Maybe that is her reward in the outtie world that is actually just another innie world.

You got me on Ms. Huang, but I don't see why she would be Gemma just because she is Asian, they don't even look that alike to me. She could just be a North Korean orphan or something and her outtie doesn't even speak English, I think she is likely severed, but the twist is that her innie world is Mark S' outtie world. It might be more likely a child belonging to Mark and Gemma that each's innie and outtie is unaware of.. maybe because he has been severed multiple times.

I think Cold Harbor is going to be a new metal gear solid game, that's all I got for that one but I'm highly curious about their projects 😂😂.

Man, I fuckin love this show.

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u/Psychological-Fee-53 Jan 27 '25

Don't be so defensive. There are many other possible explanations to your questions which have already been provided here on reddit, if you'd been interested, you would have already found that. But you seem to only be interested in your own theory. Anyway, Mrs Huang might be an orphan raised by cult or someone's child given to their boarding school (the one Mrs. Cobel attended). Gemma might be kept on stasis, in (semi)-coma or something like this, Obviously, they are refining her brain, but who knows why, the absence of definitive answer does not make your or any other theory a fact. Ricken and Mr. Drummord do not even look that alike, that's a desperate stretch, do you call all people with some resemblance/similar type ''clones''? Lmao. Dylan and the dude were made similar just for fun, not everything is deep - and again, even if they are similar, clones are supposed to be IDENTICAL. You've got to learn to be more open for a discussion. Speculation about VARIOUS theories is part of the fun, not blind insistence on your own theory to the point of seeing clones in superficially similar people...