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What's Making Me Happy Today: Severance 2x07
I felt very validated when I looked up the director for this episode (which was put together stunningly, even by the standards of this show), saw her name, and confirmed that she's from Quebec. Because the whole time I was watching this one, it 100% felt like someone gave a good piece of Québécois cinema a Hollywood budget.
• Wow, what a performance by Dichen Lachman. I've spent most of the series hoping to know more about Gemma, and in an hour she delivered more than I ever expected. Also, god, she is beautiful.
• Mauer is the fucking worst and I have never been so happy to see someone hit with a chair.
• Okay, so in terms of the rooms/files, we have ones for common fears like going to the dentist or plane crashes. I'm guessing from the Mouth Wall that we're supposed to conclude that many other test subjects on that floor go through those ones. But Allentown is a very Gemma-specific torture, and we know that's the file that Mark got the special prize for—likely the "freshman fluke" that Dylan referenced. We also know the scary numbers are the first to jump out at a refiner. I'm not even going to speculate on how things work mechanically, now knowing the degree to which the refiners themselves are data (are their 'twins' microdata refiners?) but I'm wondering whether all of the other categories actually matter or are just blinds. Are there any rooms based around positive feelings, or is the point of this solely to give everyone their own twin that absorbs all of life's unpleasant experiences without any trace except the physical bleeding over to the version of you that's allowed to be a person?
• There are a few things I'm not sure how I feel about yet. The first is Devon's reaction re: calling Cobel. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be suspicious behaviour, a clumsy setup for how Cobel will get back into the story, or a perfectly reasonable bit of characterization from someone who is married to Ricken. The second is a combination of not being inherently jazzed about the fertility plotline (although it makes sense for the story, especially because cults are going to cult) and the way Mark and Gemma's focus and motivations have been set up to mirror each other exactly when it feels like Gemma's should be different owing to her captivity. I'll see what I think after we see more.
• I remain powerfully attracted to Reghabi. I didn't end up having the time to post a reaction for last week's episode, and while I originally had a lot to say about Irving's dinner with Burt and Fields among other things, really my main takeaway is that I'd let that mad scientist live in my basement eating frosting out of the container any day. (Although I would not let her drill a hole in my head.)
• Wow, what a performance by Dichen Lachman. I've spent most of the series hoping to know more about Gemma, and in an hour she delivered more than I ever expected. Also, god, she is beautiful.
• Mauer is the fucking worst and I have never been so happy to see someone hit with a chair.
• Okay, so in terms of the rooms/files, we have ones for common fears like going to the dentist or plane crashes. I'm guessing from the Mouth Wall that we're supposed to conclude that many other test subjects on that floor go through those ones. But Allentown is a very Gemma-specific torture, and we know that's the file that Mark got the special prize for—likely the "freshman fluke" that Dylan referenced. We also know the scary numbers are the first to jump out at a refiner. I'm not even going to speculate on how things work mechanically, now knowing the degree to which the refiners themselves are data (are their 'twins' microdata refiners?) but I'm wondering whether all of the other categories actually matter or are just blinds. Are there any rooms based around positive feelings, or is the point of this solely to give everyone their own twin that absorbs all of life's unpleasant experiences without any trace except the physical bleeding over to the version of you that's allowed to be a person?
• There are a few things I'm not sure how I feel about yet. The first is Devon's reaction re: calling Cobel. I'm not sure if that's supposed to be suspicious behaviour, a clumsy setup for how Cobel will get back into the story, or a perfectly reasonable bit of characterization from someone who is married to Ricken. The second is a combination of not being inherently jazzed about the fertility plotline (although it makes sense for the story, especially because cults are going to cult) and the way Mark and Gemma's focus and motivations have been set up to mirror each other exactly when it feels like Gemma's should be different owing to her captivity. I'll see what I think after we see more.
• I remain powerfully attracted to Reghabi. I didn't end up having the time to post a reaction for last week's episode, and while I originally had a lot to say about Irving's dinner with Burt and Fields among other things, really my main takeaway is that I'd let that mad scientist live in my basement eating frosting out of the container any day. (Although I would not let her drill a hole in my head.)
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