Severance: Defiant Jazz Rewatch
January 5, 2025 6:44 PM - Season 1, Episode 7 - Subscribe
Mark's meeting with Reghabi is interrupted by Graner. Helly earns the team a Music Dance Experience. Dylan bites Milchick, causing the Music Dance Experience to be officially cancelled. Mark and Helly break into the security office. Irving visits Burt and finds him participating in his own retirement party.
The plot really starts moving fast from this point onwards. The team reach agreement on what they need to do.
Irving: You smug motherfucker. You’re not severed. You walk out of here with your memories. You carry them home with you every night. No one can rip them away from you, snuff them out. Like they never existed. Like you never existed!
(John Turturro was nominated for an Outstanding Supporting Actor Emmy for this episode.)
The plot really starts moving fast from this point onwards. The team reach agreement on what they need to do.
Irving: You smug motherfucker. You’re not severed. You walk out of here with your memories. You carry them home with you every night. No one can rip them away from you, snuff them out. Like they never existed. Like you never existed!
(John Turturro was nominated for an Outstanding Supporting Actor Emmy for this episode.)
"Oh hey, just getting some water. Do you want anything?" lol
posted by porpoise at 11:34 PM on January 5
posted by porpoise at 11:34 PM on January 5
Oh yeah, I loved how they teased the person in the photograph.
posted by porpoise at 11:41 PM on January 5
posted by porpoise at 11:41 PM on January 5
I definitely assumed a forced retirement, especially since Lumen could have offered Burt's outie incentives of any sort to do it without inciting much suspicion. Or given any reasons they wanted as to why it wasn't working.
posted by lookoutbelow at 5:28 AM on January 6
posted by lookoutbelow at 5:28 AM on January 6
Yeah, Lumen can just say to outtie Burt "congratulations, your innie did such great important work that we are giving you a ten year salary early retirement bonus."
posted by simonw at 7:02 AM on January 6 [1 favorite]
posted by simonw at 7:02 AM on January 6 [1 favorite]
The New Yorker recently ran this profile of Adam Scott. There's a lot of discussion about the show in there.
posted by Paul Slade at 8:40 AM on January 6 [3 favorites]
posted by Paul Slade at 8:40 AM on January 6 [3 favorites]
The show page for The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott is live with a trailer. Ben and Adam are recapping S1 in daily episodes leading to the release of S2, and then will shift into a weekly recap for S2.
First full podcast episode should be available sometime 1/7.
posted by nathan_teske at 10:41 AM on January 6 [2 favorites]
First full podcast episode should be available sometime 1/7.
posted by nathan_teske at 10:41 AM on January 6 [2 favorites]
Burt's retirement video is hilarious. CW's reading of it is so good.
posted by neuromodulator at 3:49 PM on January 6 [1 favorite]
posted by neuromodulator at 3:49 PM on January 6 [1 favorite]
Thank you for including Irving's speech in the post. His delivery was so good, so heartbreaking. I think this is when I finally started to understand that severance isn't really about the drudgery of work, or it's not just about that.
Dylan worked hard for his perks, but the moment he finds out that there's something real on the outside, he works even harder for it. Fuck finger traps next to knowing that he has a son. Innies and outies are the same people.
I'm also one of the idiots who didn't recognize that Gemma was Ms. Casey when we got to see the photograph. How did I not recognize her the first time?
posted by gladly at 6:55 PM on January 6 [1 favorite]
Dylan worked hard for his perks, but the moment he finds out that there's something real on the outside, he works even harder for it. Fuck finger traps next to knowing that he has a son. Innies and outies are the same people.
I'm also one of the idiots who didn't recognize that Gemma was Ms. Casey when we got to see the photograph. How did I not recognize her the first time?
posted by gladly at 6:55 PM on January 6 [1 favorite]
The first two episodes of that official Severance podcast just dropped four hours ago, covering the first two episodes.
posted by simonw at 4:13 AM on January 7
posted by simonw at 4:13 AM on January 7
Tucked at the end of the podcast description is this note:
"If you’ve got a question about Severance, call our hotline at 212-830-3816. We just might play your voicemail and answer your question on the podcast."
So if you wanted to ask how that plant room works, now is your chance!
posted by mikepop at 8:51 AM on January 7
"If you’ve got a question about Severance, call our hotline at 212-830-3816. We just might play your voicemail and answer your question on the podcast."
So if you wanted to ask how that plant room works, now is your chance!
posted by mikepop at 8:51 AM on January 7
I'm finding it really hard to come up with a question that I think they'd answer, given that pretty much every question I have feels like the kind of thing they couldn't explain without minor spoilers for the series.
"Does Lumon have a special relationship with Pip’s diner that gets them a discount on the VIP area?" Turns out there's a Reddit theory even for that!
posted by simonw at 1:19 PM on January 7
"Does Lumon have a special relationship with Pip’s diner that gets them a discount on the VIP area?" Turns out there's a Reddit theory even for that!
posted by simonw at 1:19 PM on January 7
I'm also one of the idiots who didn't recognize that Gemma was Ms. Casey when we got to see the photograph. How did I not recognize her the first time?
If it makes you feel better, I didn't make the immediate conclusion, either, and I think the context of how the actress was portrayed did play a difference be it as her innie self or as depicted at an angle, smiling, different hair style, and so on.
This is my first watch, so it's all new to me.
I'm guessing there may be a pay off later, but I wished there had been something a little bit more to Irving and Burt's handshake.
I've really been impressed by how well Trammell Tillman switches back and forth between overly positive office cheerleader to threatening office enforcer. He sells Milchick so well and it's creepy as hell. No, he's not severed, but he can do it consciously, switching between personas.
posted by Atreides at 6:50 AM on January 9 [1 favorite]
If it makes you feel better, I didn't make the immediate conclusion, either, and I think the context of how the actress was portrayed did play a difference be it as her innie self or as depicted at an angle, smiling, different hair style, and so on.
This is my first watch, so it's all new to me.
I'm guessing there may be a pay off later, but I wished there had been something a little bit more to Irving and Burt's handshake.
I've really been impressed by how well Trammell Tillman switches back and forth between overly positive office cheerleader to threatening office enforcer. He sells Milchick so well and it's creepy as hell. No, he's not severed, but he can do it consciously, switching between personas.
posted by Atreides at 6:50 AM on January 9 [1 favorite]
Right?? Trammell's performance is magnetic, I love watching him.
posted by neuromodulator at 3:06 PM on January 9 [1 favorite]
posted by neuromodulator at 3:06 PM on January 9 [1 favorite]
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Milchick: You’ve been a great leader to this department, Burt G.
Burt: Thank you.
Milchick: You deserve something special.
Burt: Not… Not a trip to the break room, I hope. Yesterday was quite enough.
Milchick: No. No, not that. Something else. Stay tuned.
posted by simonw at 6:52 PM on January 5 [1 favorite]