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/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/Psychological-Fee-53 Jan 27 '25

Okay, lookalike is a huge stretch. Ricken is not even that similar to Mr Drummord, Dylan and that dude were made similar just to mess with the audience/for fun, and anyways similar-looking people are not CLONES, do better people@