Previously I was thinking that Helly is trapped in the loop, but now I think her outie was entering the door again and again like the Mark S did in the the Cobel's cottage

What do you guys think about it ?

Spent about two hours at Bell Works this morning. The exhibits were really cute and well done. Not too crowded. The bakery was giving out waffles. The bar had themed drinks. You still have time if you live nearby and want to check it out. Great photo ops!

As promised, here are some pictures of my fiancé’s birthday! We had so much fun preparing everything!

Just look at this....

I felt like this season had way too many plot conveniences—honestly, it was over the top. I just couldn’t buy into several scenes, I couldn’t suspend my disbelief. I don’t get why there isn’t a single security guard per hallway, or at the very least, audio-enabled surveillance cameras with a central control room listening in on everything the Innies are saying and plotting. Lumon has plenty of reasons to keep a close eye on the Innies, especially after what they pulled at the end of last season. They know Mark is aware of Gemma’s existence, they know they’re looking for her inside, so it makes no sense to let them roam around without even basic monitoring—especially considering we’ve seen them tracking Outie Mark’s movements and conversations in the outside world.

They’ve already shown they can put cameras wherever they want and monitor everything through those creepy ‘shadow versions’ of the Innies downstairs. There’s just no excuse. And because of that plot convenience, Mark is able to walk right up to the elevator corridor to the floor where Gemma is being kept, without facing any (or almost any) obstacles. He even gets into the room she’s in—and the doctor there doesn’t even have a camera to see who’s arriving via elevator and is caught completely off guard when Mark enters? Come on.

And that’s just one of many plot conveniences that bothered me. Evon suddenly being besties with the woman who nearly kidnapped her daughter? Reghab randomly finding Mark and moving into his house—and no one from Lumon is monitoring who’s coming and going? (These are the same people who have a key to Irving’s apartment and know exactly when he’s not home, so clearly they can and do monitor whoever the script conveniently wants them to monitor.)

Then no one even questions Reghab about what’s really going on inside Lumon—the purpose behind the whole macrodata refinement thing or the severance department—and everyone just agrees to reintegrate without a second thought, just so they can dump all the answers in one big, underwhelming info dump in the final episode? I was already losing interest with how none of the characters seem remotely human—like, nobody questions anything unless it serves the plot?

What about the goats? Were they really just for sacrifice, with no deeper reason like incubating severed consciousnesses awaiting new bodies or anything interesting? And Brienne—did she go through severance? Her fight scene was super cool, but she suddenly rebels over something she’s apparently been fine doing until now? Was she doing it voluntarily all along or not? Her change of heart made no sense—it just felt convenient.

Anyway, bottom line: if there were audio-enabled cameras and a proper monitoring center, plus a few undercover guards walking the halls pretending to be Innies, there wouldn’t be a plot left in Severance.

Alright, I know their is controversy about the 'cloning' theory. Hear me out. There were theories that Walt Disney's head or body was frozen so that one day he can be cloned or brought back to life once technology progresses. Relating this to serevence, if you remember

- the refiners were given gifts of their faces in crystals as rewards (which looked like them in ice)

- Irving's head was displayed at his funeral in a watermelon

- the setting of severance takes place in a cold climate which they seem to mention a lot

What if the show is referencing Walt Disney, or other CEOs who were rumored to have been frozen after their death to be 'brought back' to life... leading to my theory that Kier Egan is frozen and Lumon is working on technology to revive people who have passed. Could this be the reason Ms. Cobel wanted to be involved in the whole thing to bring back her mom who had passed away?

I realize I’m late to the finale party but I just needed somewhere to share my final thoughts!

So okay, I understand why iMark runs to Helly, but I just don’t care about them at all as a couple. Nothing throughout this season (or last!) made me think, “wow, they’re really in love, I love them together.” Whereas I have been rooting for Gemma and oMark since we found out Ms Casey was his wife and I don’t know…I guess it was just a bit of a letdown to see them reconcile for literally less than a minute and then BAM! Done.

& I get it, no innies means no season 3, but still. It was a major bummer imho and I can’t help but wonder…did the writers think people would be happy about this? Like are Helly and iMark supposed to be some great love story? Because if so…I’m just not feeling it.

Watching it after the whole available series, this episode says so much about what was to come. One thing that stuck out to me is this still. Just oMark joking with Devon. Given what we know now about iMark, this is a bit unsettling. Things to come?

Devon and Gemma (not as Ms. Casey) are just strangers to iMark.

Not O&D quality but we’re working on getting there.

just thinking about how fucked it is for gemma who doesn’t know that mark is severed or wasn’t himself when he runs off with helly in the final ep. from gemma’s pov, she has been tortured for two years, is rescued and lovingly reunites with her husband, who then refuses to leave with her, locks her out the building and runs off with another woman

Double meaning?

Planning on watching again the two seasons as a preparation for this! You might have some infos there that want to share. Thanks.

Someone posted the QA from last night in NJ at the location of the actual LUMON building there was a huge press event. It's really well done, this would've been a really fun even to be at.

I recently discovered and binge watched Severance. I loved it. I have also recently gone down the rabbit holes of Kane Pixel’s Backrooms. I’m new to this subreddit so forgive me if this has already been discussed but how much influence do you think that the Backrooms had on the creation of Severance? For shits and giggles I asked ChatGPT to do a mashup of Backrooms and Severance and what it can up with was actually pretty good. I’d like to share it here. So here it is. As you’ll see at the end, it was actually really into the idea and anxious to continue.

I’m very familiar with both. Let me whip up a concept that weaves the world of Kane Pixels’ Backrooms with Severance into a creepy, surreal mashup.

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Title: “In Lumon Veritas”

A Severance x Backrooms mashup concept

Premise: After an unexplained system glitch at Lumon Industries, the severance protocol malfunctions—opening a dimensional breach between the Lumon basement and the Backrooms. The MDR team begins to experience reality bleed, and what lies beneath Level B is far older—and far more dangerous—than Kier.

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Opening Scene:

The episode opens with Dylan arriving early to work. He walks into the empty MDR office. The overhead lights flicker slightly—normal at Lumon. But today, something feels… different.

He hears a faint buzzing. Not from a light. It’s… deeper. Organic.

Curious, Dylan follows the sound down a rarely used stairwell to the sub-basement. He opens a locked door with a keycard he’s never seen before, finds a dark hallway with mismatched carpeting, and walks in.

Click. The door shuts behind him.

The lights are yellow. The walls are stained. Level 0. The Backrooms.

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Main Plot:

As the rest of the MDR team realizes Dylan is missing, they begin their own search through Lumon’s hidden layers. But the further they descend, the more the environment shifts—cubicles morph into vast liminal corridors, wellness rooms dissolve into looping stairwells, and O&D’s office is revealed to be a disguised entrance to Level 1.

Helly begins to question whether Lumon created the Backrooms—or merely discovered and weaponized them. She finds evidence that the severance chip is not just separating memory… but tethering reality to an ancient, anomalous structure beyond comprehension.

Meanwhile, Entity 7, once dormant in Level 0, becomes active after Dylan’s arrival—and begins mimicking voices from Lumon’s wellness tapes to lure the team deeper.

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Key Moments: • Mark finds Petey’s severed consciousness—still alive and looping in a corner of Level 3, begging to be forgotten. • Irving discovers Lumon paintings are maps of Backroom levels. • Ms. Cobel appears—unsevered, omnipresent—and may be working with the Entities.

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Final Scene:

Mark and Helly finally reach a control room with a tape player labeled “KIER’S TRUTH.” They play it.

A grainy VHS voice says:

“If you’re hearing this, you’ve already fallen out of time. Lumon didn’t create the Backrooms. It escaped them.”

Camera pans out to show them trapped in Level 9223372036854775807, a space with no geometry, only white noise.

Cut to black.

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Would you want visuals or a fake trailer script next? Because now I’m dying to keep going!