We are fuckin' all caught up on Severence, bitches, and we are AMPED. Tonight is the season 2 finale, season 3 is looking very likely to be greenlit, and I LOVE a good intrigue. Derek and I chatted about our thoughts on episode 9 (I don't know how the fuck I could love Milchick any more than I do, honestly), talked about the likelihood that any mysteries will be put to bed by the end of the 76 minute finale (I vote yes, Derek is not as optimistic. We can tentatively agree that Cold Harbor will likely be a lot less mysterious and important), and theories we have about tonight's episode.
So it really does look like I've been wrong about a LOT, and some things I've been right about...adjacently. Like, I called Cobelvig having an ax to grind against LuLuLemons, I was just way the fuck off about the motive. And I think for awhile, I was actually wong about the ax, but her firing set some shit in motion that there was no fucking way I could have known about. Derek and I did chat briefly about the shrine thing being a misdirect, and it kind of was, but I think Derek was more initially correct that she was and ardent LuLuLemons loyalist, and I had a different idea that ended up panning out, but not because I caught better hints, I just saw the truth and didn't trust it. More than likely a lucky guess.
I have dicked around with my Magic The Gathering card list all day and I didn't actually log any of the things Derek and I chatted about this morning. I really wanted to write out the Milchick highlights of the penultimate episode, but I have to be brief because Derek and I are about to start the finale and I need to get this up and running.
Theories for this episode:
Milchick turning heel: Derek thinks Milchick is LuLuLemons through and through. I am on the fence. I WANT to see Milchick revolt, those blackface paintings were fucking abhorrent, but I also told Derek that it would be interesting to see what kind of ultimate commentary on race in the corporate space Severence leaves us with. It's very possible that my drive to see Milchick bone out comes from my own internalized white savior bullshit where I feel like racism can be "solved", as that kind of story line would (lazily) suggest. Then again, that erases the reality that being Black ANYWHERE is precarious, and how Blackness plays into corporate politic and whatever code switching needs to happen so people can keep themselves/their families afloat...I can also see that being why Milchick stays head of the severed floor and why his super satisfying telling off of Drummond is the most we'll ever see of Milchick being anything other than an exemplary LuLuLemons middle manager.
Helly: Helly has got to still be Helena. Derek and I chatted about this at length. No on the fence for either of us. I could say more, but I'm trying to be fast.
Is there a mole??: Could there be a secret LuLuLemons employee that we don't know about? Something is nagging me that there might be. Like why would Devon get a room at the Duran Duran Birthing Retreat? Unless she asked to sever during childbirth, which we don't really know. But that's been irritating me all fucking two seasons of Severence. Why did Devon get to have her baby at a LuLuLemons facility? Could Ricken be employed there secretly? Eh. It would have been a bit less strained when Natalie came to ask Ricken to change his book. AND they could have done that on company time. Maybe Devon, but not Ricken.
Burt isn't severed: I don't think Burt is severed at all. I think his different stories for leaving LuLuLemons (retiring to O&D but erotic entanglement to his husband?) make him untrustworthy, and given what Irv's upstairs brain had sussed out about Burt being a muscled extension of LuLuLemons...I just think he was never severed, and he's in full control of his faculties. And he is maybe still not such a nice person. Derek says he is not sure if he's with me on this. I DID think their ending was so fucking touching, though. Burving was a great storyline, I love that there was such a tender end. Or presumed ending. John Turturro has been fucking killing that game in this show, so I hope he comes back in season 3, but I am happy with his plotline ending where it did in this episode.
I'm not sure there are any other theories I have to go over that I haven't talked about in my previous blog entries. I'll for fucking SURE write more after the finale. I'm so fucking excited!!!
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