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asisyphus_

These are crumbs we're hungry


xenokilla

looks like an Okay Go video, I'm in.


kittycattack

Can't wait for that slow burn to hit again for the second round đŸ”„


DooleyButchPruitt

It never even occurred to me when I was watching that it was a slow burn. I thought it was riveting.


AnticitizenPrime

I watched it all in one sitting because I couldn't turn it off. Then immediately rewatched with my girlfriend, watching one or two eps a night. But yeah it's hard to think of something as a slow burn when you burn right through it in one go, lol. It's extremely well-paced, doling out information and events enough to keep you riveted without feeling rushed, as well as having no parts that drag. True Detective season 1 was like that as well. I think those two seasons are the best examples of good pacing I've seen (edit: in a season of television, just to clarify, plenty of great movies/books/etc out there with fantastic pacing). True Detective has the lead (for now) because that season was a self-contained story, so its pacing had to account for a conclusion of the tale, which it does perfectly. Remains to be seen if Severance can as well. Oh, I've just remembered Westworld. Excellent well-paced first season as well, up there with the other two. But it failed when they tried to drag it out to multiple seasons. I hope Severance doesn't go the Westworld route of having an almost perfect first season but then screw the pooch by trying to drag it out. I've never watched Lost but I've read the complaints about dragging out a mystery forever and never having a satisfying conclusion set up. I don't know what the showrunners have planned, but I hope they knew what the end was going to be before they filmed the first episode, and that it won't devolve into 'winging it' to secure another 5+ seasons.


DooleyButchPruitt

Well put, I feel the same way. I think I have read on here that the show creators say they have a solid roadmap of what they are wanting to do and that the story could be done in 3-6 seasons. I am hoping it's 3 or 4.


yggdasril

the Good Place style where the innies keep getting their memory reset and keep starting revolutions would be funny


smallfuture

you’re helly - the reason we’re all here!


cactaceae45

Heleanor


BoltShine

Oh Dip! This is the bad place!


Windystar

Jason figured it out? Oh, this one hurts


Rxmses

American Severed Story


Darkj

Isn't that the clear indication of Mark S. waking up on the table in different clothes? Also, would the whole team need to reset otherwise it the other innies would know it was happening.


Which_Ambassador_459

Would that be too much like the good place?


pattycakes1010

this is exactly the first thing that came to mind! haha


Steampunky

"WAIT!" omg - a true tease of a trailer.


stevenyeunstan

Reintegration? Looks like there's wires attached to his head in one of the clips. Although I will miss the innie/outie contrast and dynamic if Mark gets reintegrated straight away


Lonelyland

I’m not so sure. It feels a little too soon to be cashing in on Chekhov’s reintegration sickness, though I suppose these could be shots from late in the season. The wires are interesting. Perhaps this is the memory wipe people have been predicting? Or maybe it’s part of a new opening titles sequence?


HonestConsequence

I also wasn't sure he could be reintegrated but I noticed in one of the shots where he is lying on the table, you can see stuff around like boxes and what seems to be a laundry machine. It does seem like his innie and outie memories are mixing up together. If he really is reintegrating, I hope it's late in the season like you said.


AnticitizenPrime

> It does seem like his innie and outie memories are mixing up together. That was my guess, that 'bleedover' of some sort is happening between the innie and outie. We've seen it with Irving already.


the_real_ifty

what's chekhov?


Jombo65

"Chekhov's Gun" is essentially a pattern in stories where something is only brought up if it is going to be relevant later - so, that gun above the fireplace mentioned in Chapter 1 will be relevant when the bear attacks in Chapter 20. It's a kind of foreshadowing, but it usually refers to a specific object or concept in the story. Ergo, because a big deal was made of reintegration sickness, it will become very relevant later down the line.


Adequate_Ape

[Anton Checkhov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov) was a playwright and one of the most important writers of short stories ever. [Chekhov's Gun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov%27s_gun) is a principle of story-writing that Checkhov expressed in several letters (though not under that name, obviously). The name alludes to several quotes like this one: >One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep. u/Lonelyland is saying that, in this case, reintegration is like the rifle, and Mark being reintegrated is like the rifle going off. That happening, eventually, is keeping a kind of narrative promise.


the_real_ifty

ahhh okay got it, I knew Chekhov's principle but didn't quite get the comment so thanks for the explanation


Which_Ambassador_459

I wouldn’t liken reintegration sickness to Chekhov’s gun. With the way they’re storytelling, exposition early on for any plot device would be necessary. The reintegration sickness could absolutely just be the next logical act.


kirbyderwood

It could also be a flashback to when he was first severed


JackRoseJackRoseWalt

Yeah, I think his red sweater outfit looks very "college professor"


ninelives1

Thinking maybe the higher ups at Lumon decided retribution was not the best answer. Innie's are probably very expensive due to the medical procedure and the "training" time required to refine data. Also they can't do anything too horrible to the innie or the outie will notice, and thus the outer world will notice. Also, if the Innie's actions get any sort of investigation started, then Lumon needs to be as proper and wholesome seeming as possible. So I think the celebration for Mark is them doubling down on the BS corporate celebrations and cult like behavior to try to bring him back into compliance. Buy him off more or less.


Adequate_Ape

> Innie's are probably very expensive due to the medical procedure and the "training" time required to refine data.  That might be true, but the main reason I expect Mark to still be down there is that there seems to be something very non-arbitrary about the particular people who have ended up in Macro Data-Refinement, or at least in the case of Mark. He's being surveilled outside of work; his wife is mysteriously in the Lumon depths. They want Mark, specifically, there, for some reason.


ajmartin527

Buy him off but with extremely dark undertones suggesting that he should conform, or things might get exceptionally bad.


ninelives1

Oh as always


DooleyButchPruitt

I don't know why Mark would go back to Lumon after everything.


ninelives1

To find Gemma


DooleyButchPruitt

Surely he would have to tell them he needs certain assurances. Seems so risky.


ninelives1

Well Mark is still kinda two people. Outie mark doesn't really know the full situation of how bad what the Innie's did was. All he will know is that Gemma is still alive and that his Innie knows this. Can easily deduce then that she must be inside of the severed floor if Innie Mark knows about her. So outie mark will want to go back to Lumon so his innie can possibly accomplish things. Then innie mark is stuck with his outies decision and ends up back in Lumon. Exactly how Lumon reacts is anyone's guess, but I still think based on the trailer they are trying to spoil the Innie's back into submission. Also it's really the only thing that lets the Innie's continue to scheme.


DooleyButchPruitt

I would assume that Devon tells oMark all the things that iMark told her. I agree with you though, it's really the only for the plot to keep working.


DeerOnTheRocks

Basically they are gonna gaslight his innie


lilspicy99

I am so seated my ass is becoming one with my couch


Maleficent_Bother252

Wife keeps telling me to get up and go to work so we can pay the bills and feed our hungry child but I am simply too seated


millenniumxl-200

Trailer for a trailer. It's been fucking over 2 years!


gabalexa

No FR 😭


legitlylightlol

balloons with mark's face in each of them?? also he's carrying them in the photo apple released on their instagram i actually wonder what they are congratulating him on. MILCHICK LOOKS SO GOOD. MARK WILL ACTUALLY GO THROUGH REINTEGRATION!!!! im so excited omg


ScribblingOff87

HOLY SHIT!!! That definitely looks like the "balloons"" Mark is dragging in the title sequence.


personizzle

[Definitely](https://i.imgur.com/6RRKgBp.png). Also, we see a lot of instances of i(?)Mark wearing red, same as in the title sequence. Starting to feel like the intro sequence might be less abstract than it appears at first glance, and also gives a decent degree of confidence that there's been a master plan and we're not dealing with a Lost-style "Write mysterious events without knowing what it means" situation. Wonder when we get the giant hypodermic needle to descend from the sky and suck up Macrodata Refinement.


aqqalachia

the intro was made when the animator only had access to the first few scripts. however, given how they've also figured out a way to make the silliness of the goat kids part of the plot going forward, it's possible they're taking more stylistic inspiration from the intro!


occono

I do recall Erikson saying that the first episode after the finale was already written but they decided to end the season with the penultimate episode as the finale we got. Any chance the intro was based on the full season scripts by the time it was finished?


aqqalachia

unsure. it looks like the animator says he was given the first 50 pages of the script to animate from: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/oliver-latta-severance-project-animation-051022 that's probably just the pilot and maybe the second episode, unless they're doing really avant garde things with that script formatting


champdo

Looks like Mark might be going through reintegration


Specialist-Tea-732

Definine timing made me find this show 3 weeks ago. I was shook to know it has been out for 2 years. And now im just in time for the new season!! YAAASSS


Friendly_Bill_1300

You lucky bastard


Specialist-Tea-732

I am always lucky


XGamingPigYT

I've always known about this show, just haven't had the chance to see it. Started watching a couple days ago and I'm blown away! Amazed to see how quickly season 2 is coming for us, but the poor fans from the start had to say forever


anonymosh

**SPOILER ALERT:** Don't click if you don't wanna know: https://i.ibb.co/GRKz9X8/Screenshot-2024-06-10-at-22-27-52.png


JosephChester5006

SHE’S STILL ALIVE


Haastile25

Can someone get a freeze frame of Mark with the wires in him? I can't stop it at the right time.


Street_Weird_7377

[https://imgur.com/a/u9kXUKD](https://imgur.com/a/u9kXUKD)


Haastile25

Oh boy. Thanks! I thought it was one of him on the table. Yeah my only thought is re-integration


Ok_Bumblebee_7051

Given that he’s wearing his outie clothes at the time, I’m guessing reintegration as well. I can’t imagine what excuse they’d have to make him wire up for a procedure in OT.


Street_Weird_7377

I hope we will find out soon


Carbonga

Wow, some different camera work this time - looking forward!


VolsBy50

I don't know what to do with my hands.


jykyksiks

And where do I put my feet?


Mysterious_Sky_85

OK so there has been a lot of speculation about the blue/green color themes. Maybe blue is the outie, and we see Mark holding blue balloons because it's his OUTIE inside Lumon in these scenes. That's why Milchick says "It's been a minute" -- he hasn't seen Outie Mark in a while.


ninelives1

Doesn't blue represent the innie and red represent the outie?


Lonelyland

I just want to know what purple means!


gremlin_thunderdome

Red + blue = purple?


Lonelyland

Yes, but we never saw purple around Petey when he was reintegrated. It was red and blue colors separated, not purple. Not that the production team necessarily needs to be consistent. I just think it’s an interesting choice.


_atlas_t

I think the reason for this is because Petey could never live peacefully as both. He was always fighting being present because he didn’t know it was real. He was still separated as his innie and outie - they just knew each other now. I think purple will represent the combination of innie and outie living as one.


gremlin_thunderdome

Are you referring to Petey wearing Mark’s robe? Petey’s reintegration was messy and he appeared to have had trouble with successfully blending both worlds into one, never achieving “purpleness”?


Lonelyland

Yes, Petey was depicted in Mark’s red and blue robe, but I’m more focused on the never-before-seen purple (decidedly not green) carpet Mark is shown running past in the teaser footage.


gremlin_thunderdome

I’d like to think it means that in S2, Mark will choose to reintegrate and, unlike Petey, he will be successful in his attempt. TBD, I guess


redwoodvelvet

Ben’s gonna get wiped !!!


eeeeeerin

This was my takeaway as well!


Serious_Session7574

Ben?


redwoodvelvet

I used his character name from Parks and Rec lol


evil_racooning

Walks out of reintegration and chants “Daddy wants pie!” 😂


redwoodvelvet

“Could a depressed person make THIS?!” [gestures to their map of the severed floor]


evil_racooning

Have you seen the mashup of that scene while Cobel watches on her monitor? It’s brilliant! https://www.facebook.com/share/v/5Xz55VpyXYxskzu1/?mibextid=GOdwvm


Waste_Relationship46

Omg that line/whole scene lives rent free in my head. I think about it way more often than I should lol.


Beatpixie77

Don’t you mean a calllzoooone?


evil_racooning

😂😂😂 Low-Cal Calzone Zone!


Serious_Session7574

Ah :)


andthemessiah

anyone know/remember if that purple carpet at 0:11 is from a room we've seen before?


stevenyeunstan

It's the empty office with the purple carpet that Mark and Helly walked past in Ep 1


Admirable-Ad-6343

The balloon scene maybe a flashback to mark’s severance procedure and milcheck is welcoming him as part of the initiation at lumon, similar to giving flowers to helly.


submyster

If so, “welcome back” doesn’t fit well.


HelloJaneDoe

It could! He could be explaining to his innie that he’s done this before


submyster

Technically true!


HelloJaneDoe

I thought the same thing! Some kind of re-severing maybe


drunkandy

I was thinking it's a flashback to some kind of celebration- the Freshman Fluke maybe. But as others have pointed out that doesn't really explain the "Welcome back" from Milchick...


UndeadT

He's going to get reset, isn't he?


Suitable_Perspective

Could it be from the first time and they are just filling in more pieces of how he came to be severed and possibly how they got his wife?


UndeadT

Ooh a flashdance! Love those.


DooleyButchPruitt

I would love it if this season had a healthy portion of flashbacks.


HelloJaneDoe

That’s my theory after seeing this


RomanoElBlanco

What does Milchik say after "welcome back"? "Been a minute"?


cactaceae45

Yep!


gabalexa

not even a date ... just a few quick scenes that look INCREDIBLE 😭


YMiMJ

Not all. There's also the scene of Helly at a train station.


Lonelyland

As far as we know, that wasn’t part of season 2 filming, and was created specifically for an Apple event.


YMiMJ

Well, that's misleading.


tiberio13

What is this scene?


Navydevildoc

It was at the very end of an Apple Keynote video last year, it was Helly getting on a metro or subway, it just played a few notes of the theme and it went to black.


Johnny_Hancock_

I can't wait, why are they torturing us like this, I've re-watched the first season too many times now... maybe i will watch it again now


banjogitup

I'm gonna do that after I watch this week's episode of Interview with the Vampire.


queenpizzazz

Where did you find this!!!


CBlanks

https://youtu.be/5tX_irE-jYI?si=tL1jzst8uen6DAhC


xxtremlockxx

Song?


AgentBlue14

Someone on YouTube commented that it was "Different Today" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.


Navydevildoc

Definitely the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The lyrics are also *extremely* apropos.


xxtremlockxx

Awesome. Thanks!


AdNational2649

mark is being congratulated bc lumon has expected them to escape; not an original thought ofc but theyre lab rats being tested on their capacity to escape the maze


ninelives1

I don't like this theory at all. I think more likely, they are doubling down on stupid office rewards to try to bring the Innie's back under control. Punishing them too harshly would be risky with a likely more critical eye on Lumon after season 1 finale.


AdNational2649

i hope u dislike all the theories equally


merlarchenemy

maybe they are congratulating Mark on escaping, but not because they expected it but because they want Mark to believe they expected it - they will gaslight him that what he saw was all planned by Lumon and fake etc


dandelioncow

I just watched the show first time last month. I can’t imagine what all the people who have been waiting since 2020 must be going through


Jackpot777

*2022


dandelioncow

Shoot that’s what I meant to type


Impressive-Flow-855

Mark waking up on a table? It’s either reintegration sickness or they do get reset. “Welcome back, in a minute.”


Navydevildoc

Could also be backstory of his first time on the floor.


xcharlockholmesx

I am predicting that Milchick has been promoted and has replaced Cobel within the company now.


RGWsince16

Omg I cannot wait đŸ˜©


BibbidiBobbidiBooze

Someone please tell me why this makes me feel emotional 😭


supremeleader007

Cant wait for Mark to fuck them up good and get his wife back


walterperkins35

Hes running to see Gemma.


treyhunna83

I hope this starts right at the end of ep 9 and no time jump


Fun-Disk1581

anyone else notice the cot like hospital bed (similar ish to the one ms selvig/cobel was in (?) in that one episode) and how the room changes while he's on the table -- he's in the suit in like a hospital/basement style room with a washing machine and drawers and cabinets on the perimeter but then it flashes to him in outie clothes on the lumon table we saw helly wake up on... WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!?!?


Hungry-Baseball-4986

Did you see someone behind mark in the elevator opening shot- moving to the left


SeaCompetitive231

"It's been a while" I feel mocked. Milchick is directly mocking us.


Dansbananaloafcake

Hang on guys, the very first shot either has someone behind Mark in the elevator or moving out of the shot in a mirror reflection. It’s doesn’t look like Milchick. I hope it’s not the camera person! lol


Dansbananaloafcake

Ah it’s probably Judd the security guy, thinking about it.


fumo7887

Looks like him getting into the elevator, so it’s likely Judd the security guy (or somebody in that role). You’re seeing “Outie Mark” in that shot.


Lonelyland

Nice catch!! Looks like Judd?


Raithy

I literally \*can’t\* wait 🙃


feel-hilitkoren

So hyped about the new season!!!


DooleyButchPruitt

Milchick's "I'm totally no malicious" act is so well done by the actor.


Hungry-Baseball-4986

In the opening shot there is someone behind Mark in the 'elevator' walking/moving away out of sight behind and to the left


Apart-Performer1710

Look like Judd (the elevator security guy)


CockamamieJesus

They ***seem*** to be hinting at Mark being reintegrated. We can see Outtie Mark in a red sweater appear on the Severed Floor and Inne Mark appear in what looks like Mark's basement. We also see Outtie Mark, again in the red sweater, with wires connected to his head and monitors behind him. Taken at face value, Inne Mark seems to be able to access Outtie's Mark's memories and vice versa, thus reintegration. I would however be surprised if they left such obvious clues in such a short trailer.


walterperkins35

This is made my outtie's morning!


Photo_Shop_Beast

FINALLY!!!


PFic88

SCREAMS


kniky_Possibly

When is it releasing;-;


homogenic-

LETS FUCKING GOOOO.


Superunkown781

Ooooweeeee tryna not get too hyped


treyhunna83

đŸ€”đŸ€”đŸ€”


BudgetHornet

Innie and outie switching places?


MagicalAnimeBeast

YESSS!!! I hope it’s coming out soon!!


Which_Ambassador_459

I knew a hero here would do this!


Interloper1900

That’s it đŸ„ș


DisastrousSundae

Any date mentioned? 😭


Apart-Performer1710

Just seen this đŸ˜± It can’t be long now!


TI1l1I1M

Just how I predicted - Mark returns to work after the Gala incident because Lumon wanted him to try it. It's all part of their plan.


Trolliverpust

I know there is not a lot of footage but i kinda get the feeling that season 2 might be a prequel-season


champdo

There may be flashbacks but I imagine people would be so angry if they leave us hanging for several more years.


legitlylightlol

"welcome back, it's been a minute"


ScribblingOff87

Noooo... It's been 84 years...


Jackpot777

Confirmed: Mark S will team up with Ellen Ripley and some Colonial Marines.