DETROW: Tramell, I want to ask you a couple of questions about a really interesting plot point that I'm going to try very hard not to give too many details about. But there is a point where Milchick, as a Black man in leadership in a company that has literally deified its white founders, is made aware that he's a Black man in a predominantly white company. And I'm wondering how you thought about this plot arc, how you approached these scenes and these moments for this character?
TILLMAN: Well, in order to answer that question, I have to speak to where we started in Season 1. I remember having conversations to talk about the racial makeup of the town of Kier, which I started to see was very diverse, and also to speak about the racial dynamic of Lumon. And so my question to the creatives was, does this man know that he's Black? And what does that mean as he steps through a culture that looks very different from him? And are we going to address that? So the charge was then how do we tell this story without losing focus on the journey of the innies but still pay homage and respect to the fact that this man is a Black man who knows that he is Black in a world that he stands out?
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to Tramell Tillman and Britt Lower, stars of the Apple TV+ series, about their complex character arcs and show's highly-anticipated second season.
I don't know if Milchick was against Lumon the whole time, but the second he saw the blue eyes on the "palette swapped" Kier painting , you could tell he has had ENOUGH of this BS .
1. I called it last week that Mark would undergo reintegration.
Now thats out of the way...
i get a weird suspicion that Irv might have reintegrated. The phone booth scene in episode 2, the paintings, the "dozing off" in season 1... maybe he's an early reintegration patient. Crazy, but so is this show.
Something spooked Cobelvig. She knows too much and I think she knows she may not have walked out of there had she gone inside with Helena.
Reintegrated Mark is gonna crash tf out when the memories of Ms. Casey start coming back.
Milkshake gonna shyt on these cacs when they push him too far. That scene with him and Natalie? INCREDIBLE! The tension grabbed me through the dame screen. Bravo!
I think Irving’s dreams are a result of his outties not sleeping. Like they seem to be saying certain aspects will crossover. Irving being able to draw in both versions means there is no separation.
How Irving draw something he’s never seen is a huge mystery.
I think there is another anti-Lumon faction we haven’t fully met yet.
as for Cobell, I think she‘s metaphorically stuck. She seems like she was driving to wherever the breathing tube person is, but panicked at facing them. Then she bucked up to Helena until she was faced with meeting the board then ran away.
During the "Reintegration" scene, they mentioned something about the "Five Brainwaves" having to be aligned in order to reintegrate. I was thinking that maybe that had something to do with the "Four Tempers", but I couldn't figure out what.
But just now I was looking at the Kier paintings on the severance wiki and I saw this one:
Spoiler tagging because its a large image
That got me thinking that the "Five Brainwaves" are the Four Tempers, PLUS one additional temper which basically enslaves them.
I've seen it said that the four members of the MDR team represent the Four Tempers, e.g. :
Mark is woe. Dylan is frolic. Irving is dread. Helly is malice.
So...that might make the Fifth temper be
Unsevered Lumon management (e.g. Milchick or Cobell), which keeps the other "brain wave" components in slavery
I need to start watching it with the subs on because they'll occasionally throw in big words I've never heard before so I didn't catch the "re-canonicalized painting" the first time. I was stuck on pause for a hot minute looking at those paintings like "hold on, Kier ain't... then why is he... "
Just binged this whole shyt the past 2 days. Been missing out ....season 1 finale was one of the dopest episodes of all time. Up there with Westworld "trompe L'oiel" as far as suspense and buildup goes. I'ma just let the season end then binge it. Can't do that week to week shyt with shows this good. Love the whole vibe and eeriness of it. Need more shows like this to watch.
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....season 1 finale was one of the dopest episodes of all time. Up there with Westworld "trompe L'oiel" as far as suspense and buildup goes. I'ma just let the season end then binge it. Can't do that week to week shyt with shows this good. Love the whole vibe and eeriness of it. Need more shows like this to watch.
If this turned out to be true...
