ALSO DISCUSSION OF RACISM if u are not about that

gawd this ep had everything

cheating on your husband with your husband

old man tragic yaoi

the most immaculate insult: devour feculence

TRULY EVERYTHING

tho weirdly the part that got me, possibly because i am an insane workaholic

was milchick's voice cracking when he looks at his office and relents at not pursuing mark and letting him have 'the day off'

like he knows shits about to go down and he's about to lose everything he worked so hard for and he just cursed out his superior

MILCHICK IS SO MUCH AND SO MUCH IS HAPPENING

just ugh idk HE'S AN ASSHOLE AND ALSO LIKE, BEEFING WITH A 12 YEAR OLD but i love him

i can't remember where but I do remember reading about how some people are like :/ that milchick is the only dark skinned person on the cast and he's a villain but

i think...that's the point???

like he's doing all he can to blend in and suck up to these fucks

HE SENT A 12 YEAR OLD TO SIBERIA FOR NARCING ON HIM BUT ON THE OTHER HAND THAT 12 YEAR OLD WAS A NARC

but they still treat him like shit

he is Never Going To Be on their level

and i think he finally realized this and that, fucking sucks

i mean he literally gets in trouble for being Too Respectable

somarysueme: RESPECTFULLY: FUCK THEM KIDS

due to, a narcing 12 year old,

there are so many bizarre yet believably grounded things happening aldfkjasf

also helena eating the PERFECTLY SEGMENTED BOILED EGG in tiny bites at the beginning was some get out shit

don't trust white folks who do that shit

I love how Severance talks about Class Solidarity by showing how fucking bleak a lack of class solidarity can become IE, MILCHICK BEEFING WITH A 12 YEAR OLD, BUT ALSO OBJECTIVELY THAT 12 YEAR OLD IS USING RACISM TO ENHANCE HER CHILD LABOR CAREER AT HIS THE COST OF HIS

that is such a sentence

but is exactly what's happening

severance

also i'll be honest. STILL NOT SURE WHERE MS CORBEL STANDS

LIKE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY AND ALL THAT

BUT BITCH IS STILL CRAZY

Severance!!!! Zoolander is just not fucking around anymore i guess.

Gawd this show gives me such anxiety in the good way

I feel like I know where she stands like, as a character all her motivations make sense to me. The mystery is like, in what tools she now has available and what that means for the characters around her.

I feel like I know how she'll play the game but I don't know what cards she's holding, if that makes sense.

I THINK SHE STANDS BY HERSELF FIRST AND FOREMOST. but yea like

she's a wildcard now just the wildcard is also holding a machete

what will happen

also shout out to the doctor who got the fuck outta dodge. hope she's okay

I think her loyalty will be to Her Work and to Her Keir. As in "I am the one holding true to the Eagan values and also you are idiot little babies who don't understand the true power of Severance"

YEA THAT'D FIT

maybe she'll go create her own lumon with blackjack and hookers

RIGHT. GET OUT OF THIS NARRATIVE IT IS NOT A GOOD PLACE TO BE FOR ANYONE BUT FOR BLACK NEUROSURGEONS IN PARTICULAR,,

get thee on the train

which speaking of I bet Milchick and maybe Miss Huang even are also neuroscientists.

also no way is irving not going to turn around and save his walken boyfriend

is he technically a homewrecker yes do i care no

He was in the room when Helena was getting Severed which seemed super weird at the time but knowing that Cobel is actually a scientist being made to act as Middle Management I bet he is too

oh for sure

Miss Huang in particular is probably like a super child genius

i wish them all a semi happy ending

Burt's husband has CLEARLY been experimenting on his brain. There were too many bits of Memory Hole Gaslighting during the dinner for that to be anything else.

miss huang go be a normal fucking kid and milchick idk man you could get so much ass on that motorcycle

be free

he could get SO much ass. absolutely insane drip on that man.

let him live

but yea man. good show. hope helly isn't about to get merc'd by her dad

crazy

also as far as Michick being a villain like. While yeah he didn't get a big backstory ep like Cobel I think this season especially they have been making extremely clear that he is a complicated guy with a complex internality and yeah he is doing shitty things for Lumon but we can take a lot of implications about his life from Cobel and Huang's stories

insane show fr

yea and tbh I liked him and was fine with him Just Being a Villain cuz. LOOK AT HIM. HE'S SO GOOD AT IT

He PROBABLY WAS a "wintertide fellowship" kid who had to work as an adult before he hit puberty and his reward for all that hard work was to be permanently removed from his home with no warning or chance to say goodbye

but with all these new revelations there's so much more

and probably also had to smash his favorite toy on the way out :')

and it's like. damn. horrible (positive)

TBF I THINK HE SMASHED HER TOY OUT OF SPITE

LIKE THAT SEEMED EXTREMELY TARGETED LOL

True. If he actually was having a great time dispensing Music Dance Experiences and making up fake stories about how jerking off turns you into a tree, i would still support him

RESPECTFULLY: WE MUST IMPRESS UPON THE YOUTHS THE FOLLY OF THEIR SUBTERFUGE it means fuck them kids

inspiring me to expand my vocabulary

I am so ready for thursday

i love Office Sabra so much

I love how much Lumon is like. Protestantism and Scientology and also Amazon at the same time and it never feels ham-fisted even when it's extremely heavy handed

aldskfjak office sabra

Look not EVERY show with a team of amnesiacs is Sabra. But Severance is absolutely Sabra.

its true

gawd wait is there only one ep left. horrible.

hate that for all of us

i know

and then no new season ever again. for a few years

goooood this season has been so good to us

milchik is soooooo good. I feel like he's approaching the same kind of character precipice we saw Cobel at in season 1

like she didn't have to go running straight to lumon but she chose to do that

what's milchik gonna do

I bet he gets a solid backstory ep next season

Jiora: i'd be fine if he didn't but i do think he's gonna crash out in the last ep

ganbatte milchick

yeah same. they've been setting him up for it hard

I'm gonna be real I'm not sure how someone could watch the episode with the blackface paintings and NOT get that the point of Milchick is the othering

I love him. He sucks. His arms are so big.

ladfjakdfa his arms

AND YEAH THE PAINTINGS WERE SO FUNNY. just both of them like

Jokes (not a joke.) aside one of my favorite reads of the "uses too many big words" complaint was that Miss Huang was just being straight up because she......... is like 12, and just does not understand what he means, like it was a pretty earnest complaint not really made in the worst faith but then (the VERY white) upper management gets it and Then

oooooh

that IS a good read damn

Right? I like it a lot. But the blackface paintings are so fucking funny. Me and Mora were losing our shit the instant Natalie said recanonized paintings

"are we gonna get blackface kier. are there blackfaced paintings in that box" "bro look at her face there are definitely blackfaced paintings in that box" screaming

no stop looking at them! stop looking at them please they didn't even change the eye color he looks like a guy in a tyler perry movie

No I don’t think Miss Huang was like “muwahaha here is how I a twelve year old will do a racism” but rather “this man’s authority chafes, but I can reclaim power by making anonymous complains about him here is one that I bet will stick (even though it doesn’t have much to do with my actual frustrations)”

Which feels like a very honest [here’s how people who are both oppressed by the system they share may be driven to take advantage of their unequal privilege within the oppressive system to hurt each other because they have all been so carefully trained away from ever attacking the system itself]

chinhands

TYLER PERRY KIER AL;KDJFKLDAFJA

But also it could have been a very earnest complaint like you said and her “hey isn’t your performance review coming up ” dig was just that. A moment of frustration. That from a limited perspective could make it seem like she made a Calculated Attack.

THAT UNPLEASANT AMBIGUITY IS ALSO HONEST this show is so fucking good

it's pretty true to life in terms of how minorities are pitted against each other, I think. like the system doesn't reward anyone but the top.

Kierler Perry

thinking on it Huang could have just been doing that kid thing where they try to 'gotcha' the authority figure to show 'SEE, I'M SMART, I GOT THIS' and milchick is like, taking out his misplaced frustration on her as he Does Not Need This

so much is happening

timmtams: YEA

timmtams: YEAH. Yes. That.

SO MUCH IS HAPPENING. And it would also make sense I think if Miss Huang, who wants to do a clever Gatcha on her frustrating dadboss, and has probably been encouraged to do Clever Things. Was put in a position where the Clever Thing to do is to make a lil Microagression Complaint, not having aaaany idea how it’s going to get used or by whom and for what.

Genuinely thinks “go above his head and make an anonymous complaint” is the moral and correct (and professional!!) thing to do. The truth of the matter being “This guy is being glass cliffed and the people doing it to him want any excuse possible to make their own failures his fault” doesn’t occur to her because how could it she is 12 and in a cult.

I do like the varying examples of that behavior in huang, milchick and dylan. dylan is good at this, he's a model employee. he has rewards that are meaningless. huang is smart to leverage the system, but we know it'll cost her and the system has her, like it had corbel. milchick wants to toe the line, wants to be great, boss and friend, productive

he sees the traps and thinks, that won't be me.

but the system has him

yeah

loyalty means nothing. efficiency means nothing. cunning means nothing. smarter means nothing. the system has you.

“Your error is fundamental to the human psyche: you have allowed yourself to believe that others are mechanisms, static and solvable, whereas you are an agent.”

milchick thinks he's an agent. huang thinks the same.

the system has them and no matter how hard they work, no matter how perfect they are in their (work) roles, no matter how smart they are
they will never, ever progress to the level they want because they are not white men (been just reading this plurk and gobbling it up, everyone has Every Correct Take)

the amount I was rooting for Milchick to destroy the child who gave him a bad Forte review probably says something about me

misailury: I feel like “don’t leave bad forte reviews or you will be sent to Siberia” is a good message to any kids who might be watching

It's tru