We finished season one of Severence last night.
I gotta say it isn't looking good for some of my theories, but I wasn't completely off!
So I feel like it's looking kinda grim for my many severs theory. I'm still perplexed by the color red, which I haven't seen a lot of, andin the finale, Helly's dress was green andbue with no red accents, but red is for sure akey color clue player here, right? Like, it's the fucking color of the elevator arrow. I don't know, maybe it's more a mind thing. Like red is your "outie" mind and green is your "innie" mind. I still like the idea of there being many layers of sever, but it isn't looking good. Derek says that blue is corporate LuLuLemons color, and red is the real world with no touch of LuLuLemons. I don't HATE that idea like Derek says I do, I just am thrown off by the red accents.
I also think I went too deep in on food, which I meant to write about yesterday but forgot. Derek and I legit laughed at the egg bar party being hella coveted, but Dylan is right, those eggs lookd really fucking good. I'm a little bummed that there doesn't appear to be anything legit about food, but not everything is a clue. I still think it's a little odd that the foood is so repackaged and underwhelming in LuLuLemons land, but I'm starting to think that there's some kind of Kier-icism for that. Lest not you see graven images branded upon the foods you consume to aid in you refraining from being consumed by them or some shit.
I'm a bit thrown that it looks like all of Irv's goopiness is related to paint, but part of me thinks that's misdirection. We see MARK covered in the goopin the credits, not Irv, but then again...eh? I can't yet work out if Irv knows the test floor halway because he's had Milchik's job (he ha, after all, been there longer than most), or if he knows that hallway because he's been Gemma'ed. I feel like the song Ace of Spades was purposeful as more than just like, "this is just the kind of music that this guy likes", I just can't quite work out anything story hint-wise past the first few lyrics, honing in specifically on "you win some, lose some it's all the same to me". Again, I could just be reading too much into it. Maybe the test floor is where all of the gloop is. I wonder if you can rewrite your sever. Burt worked at O&D for 7 years, but wa Irv the longst employee at LuluLemons, or just the longest employee at MDR?
We were not surprised by the Gemma revelation, obviously, but that does create more puzzles than it solves. Is she dead? Is she a clone? What the actual fuck happened? It sounds like she has more memories of Mark (obvy not MEMORY memories, but something in her brain recognizes a connection to him) than he has of her, so what iteration of Gemma is this, if it's an iteration of her at all? Is this the first Gemma? IS IT A FUCKING CLONE? I can't work out how they'd have both Gemma and Mark, unless Gemma was a convenience due to near death/death, and they targeted Mark to see if severing really and truly works across the board. Does Gemma have someone else's mind in her? I've been saying to Derek that maybe this is what's really going on at LuLuLemons...people are being wiped so the Eagan Family can have a body to put their mind into and live forever.
I also think that Ms. Cobelvig is fucking hell bent on revenge. Derek and I talked about the show the entire drive up to STL today, and I told him that I don't think she is a bad person like we're meant to think, I think she's just singularly minded. And I think that the path her mind is barreling down is lined with bitter, virulent hatred. I can't suss out what went wonky for the Cobels, but I think maybe the procedure hurt or killed Cobelvig's mother and Cobelvig wants to get her mother back. The way she clutched the trach tube after tearing down her shrine...and how she sleeps in a hospital bed in a fucked up room in her (we assume) LuLuLemons house? Weird. Derek was like, why would she have had that shrine up, and all of the Kier key wordson her walls? And I was like, as a reminder of what she hates and why she's doing whatever nefarious shit she's up to. Given that I also think there is cloning or body doubling going on, she could be trying to get her mom back THAT way. Derek wondered if maybe Helly is her mom? The lady in the photo on the shrine appeared to have red hair, ad it isn't like Cobel couldn't be a married name and Ms. Cobelvig is actually Ms. Eagelvig. I am not wholly mad at that theory, but I need to see more before I commit to it being OUR theory. There is obviously some weird shit going on with the Eagans.
As I read this to Derek I wondered if maybe his Helly theory could hold water because she isn't the firsst generation Helly? I don't know how Keir Eagan is alive, and how he'd be Helly's dad, unless she was his daughter...Charlotte...born in 1944...who married someone with the last name Cobel...in the actual timeline he was alive in and she IS Ms. Cobelvig's mother. I don't think that's unlikely, either. I'm not sure we can take anything at all at face value.
Seeing Keir Eagan at the party and Helly calling him dad made me damn near fucking positive that it's cloning or mind implantation. We could still be VERY unclear on the time this takes place...though Derek and I did go back to the finale to check Irv's list of severs for dates. It appears that it is at LEAST as early as 2009, but that was the only for sure year we saw. And we noticed a few letters in each name were underlined, but can noot yet suss out why. Derek said, "yeah, that's too nerdy for me". I''ll check it out myself tomorrow. I love a puzzle! While we were rewatching Irv's scenes, I asked Derek if he thought that maybe Irv has been out as his innie self before, and that's how he has this list and these maps. Why would his outie do that? I also asked Derek if he thought maybe Irv was the one who threew the switch for Dylan's OTC pull. We have seen that they're dicey about reveealing people, but if itt wa Doug, why not show Doug? If it was some other LuLuLemons employee that is a throw away, why not show them? I don't think the reveal will be that Ms. Selvig was running OTC for Milchik, I believe that she didn't know (and I asked in a previous blog, WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MILCHIK SNAKE UP TO????). And does this mean that there were TWO people pulling OTC for Dylan? Derek said he likes imagining it as Doug long arming he switches like Dylan, but having a way easier time because he's taller. But I could see a world where it's Irv who did it.
Also...waffle party? What the living fuck.
I love this fucking show. I'm gonna keep saying it until it's not true anymore.
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