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This is brilliant. Thank you.

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/severance-recap-season-2-episode-7-gemma-testing-explained-1236324022/ Great interview with Dichen Lachmam/Gemma. It made me think terrible things, though. Maybe when the refiners are dealing with the numbers, they are deciding Gemma’s fate? Is Mark inadvertently causing her to suffer? God, this show.

This is the darkest episode so far. Gemma’s life is nightmare after nightmare, a never-ending torture session of knowing and not knowing, of missing Mark and having to be with other men (sexuallly too?). Now the severed floor doesn't seem so bad... Loved the Mark and Gemma love story. Happy, flirty Adam Scott is a vision to behold. Gotta watch a few other times to understand everything. I bet Gemma and Mark meet at Cold Harbor, but then he reintegrates and they both scape. Or try too.

The one troupe The Pitt did not scape was the miscarriage one. A pregnant woman finds out she's miscarried, spends some time alone and then proceed to work as if nothing happened. She's a doctor, for heaven's sake! She knows someone ought to take a look at her and make sure she's alright. And I'm not even mentioning the psychological factors. Go to your private doctor or go home. Don't keep working as if nothing happened. Also, Roby sees her doing an ultrasound and his reaction is... do nothing? Big disappointment. Other than that, a lovely episode.

This is a great read about the consent issue: https://mashable.com/article/severance-consent-mark-helly-helena

Maybe that's because I was very tired when I watched it, but that episode got me really confused. When Helena went to see Mark at the restaurant, I had to pause the image and think: what does outie Mark know about Helena? Just that she's the boss, I thought. And then she apologized to him about OTC and I was completely lost. What was she apologizing for? It couldn't possibly be about the sex because outie Mark didn't know about that. Or did he??? What also confuses me are the reintegration scenes. When that happens, it seems like Outie Mark just takes the place of Innie Mark, and not that he's both at the same time. Weird. But the worst part for me is that Outie Mark is doing the reintegration tests at night in his place, but when he emerges at Lumon, it's during the day, when Innie Mark is working. How is that possible? Or are those just memories for him? Like I said, confused. And yes, makes no sense to me that the innies can just do whatever they want now, and no one cares. The show was very structured before and the rules were clear. I liked that. Now it seems all over the place, and that makes it lose its strength for me. I still love it like crazy though. My sacred hour of television. Just wish they would advance more with the reintegration thing. As long as Mark is alive, that is. Thanks to the poster who identified Drummond as the lovely cop from Trapped. I hadn't recognized him at all! Now I have to watch the whose season again, yay! Edited to add: where the hell is Mrs. Cobel? I miss her.

So no one asked Hely what happened when her innie was out? And she didn't tell them? I know there was a lot going on, but, for Hely, that just happened. Of course she would have wanted to tell them, specially Mark. "Hey, I pretended to be Helena and told everyone the truth about what happens here" is quite a big deal. Poor Mark. Going from outie to innie without warning, feeling betrayed (and maybe raped?) by Helena, not knowing if he can trust Hely, meeting his wife but not really... no wander he's a mess right now. But yeah, stop being as asshole to people, Mark! I don't understand how Irv could have left a message to Dylan. And is it about the corridor of hellish lights? OMG Irv and Burt together again! Please please let that happen.

My thoughts exactly. Helena decided to create the whole scenario, and Mikchick just came up with the details. Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I do think the authors know where they are going with this.

This is it for me. I'm out. Nothing really happens in this show. It could have been so good...

I see what you did there!!!

Wow this show is a rollercoaster from hell and I love it! Goats, Mammalians, real wives, brain waves, reintegration!!! I wonder if the reintegration will be a fleeting thing, just a few minutes and they will be separated again, or if Mark is a whole person now. If he is, what a game-changer! Love that this show is not afraid to advance the plot, like arc said, while series like Silo spend months without going anywhere. I'm so done with that show! Back to Severance, now I'm thinking that Hely is really Hely, unless Helena is a great actress. Not sure Helena could fake so much empathy for Irv (loved that moment) and Mark. She doesn't seem to care about anyone but herself. How much do I love that scene between Irv and Felicia? I cried when they hugged. What a perfect hour of television!

Not that we know of. I love that we're calling him "Milkshake" now. I really hate him. I mean, Mrs. Cobel is batshit crazy, but he is just evil.

Now I fear we won't have a Second Season. And I'm not sure I would watch it anyway. The allegations against him are horrible. Why are our heroes turning into monsters? So sad.

I'm completely fascinated by Helena watching Hely kissing Mark. Three times! My guess is that she lives a really dreadful life, where her only motivation is to prove her dad wrong (he has always considered her worthless), and that's why she decided or accepted to go through the sever procedure. So she has no life, no boyfriend, no relationships in real life. But now she has someone as an innie! She wants to have that too! And that's why she decided to turn off the chip and go undercover as Hely - officially to spy on the innies, but secretly to be the woman who kisses Mark at the elevator. Or I'm reading too much on that scene and you should ignore me completely. Edited to add: Patricia Arquette is phenomenal in this episode. Give her all the awards please!

My thoughts exactly. She seemed surprised and it took her a few seconds to hug back. I don't want the theory to be true (poor Mark!), but it seems very likely.