The Reel Rejects - SEVERANCE SEASON 2 Episode 1, 2, & 3 REACTION!

Starting point is 00:00:00 Thank you to Huell for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. All right, John. Enough of me rambling about me. You want to watch this? Let's go. Let's go get inied. Let's do it, my friend.

Starting point is 00:00:18 I have that feeling you get when you watch something and you feel like you just took a jog or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, nice, nicely done, gang. All right. well we just watched severance season two episode one through three prepper I'm sure you guys did a great job

Starting point is 00:00:36 betting down these highlights you guys have been tasked a lot lately appreciate you getting this up on the YouTube's and hey I think we're uploading these every Sunday at this point Severed Sunday Severed Sunday I'll go to you first John

Starting point is 00:00:51 what are some of your quick thoughts on you how are you feeling I'm loving I mean I'm loving the season so far it seems like I think one thing like it feels very natural coming out

Starting point is 00:01:03 of what came before it but it also feels like there's a lot of momentum right now which is fun

Starting point is 00:01:07 and yeah the continued just riddle of everything is really engaging and really visceral

Starting point is 00:01:15 a lot of great twisted and touching emotional moments I am continuing it's continuing

Starting point is 00:01:22 the upward trajectory of the show for me so I'm pretty chuffed how are you feeling generally about

Starting point is 00:01:28 it's an interesting take on how to do a season two when i thought like the whole season would pretty much be how this how the see how episode one of the season started just like let's it's an intense ramp up let's go let's go let's go answers answers answers mystery answer uh but somehow it found its way to get back to its grounded pacing and for a cure to take control the situation but slowly be losing control against this rebellion and i i think they they managed to find the right stride because it could have just been what i was thinking it might be uh ramp up and then go go go go go go go but it's not that vibe at all in fact they've managed to hurt my head even more my mind is so it's like

Starting point is 00:02:19 they just keep opening up more puzzle boxes and yeah especially with like patricia arquet oh what the fuck's going on there man awesome like there's there's times where I feel like I really get this show and you know I don't want to just keep repeating thematic things that they they talk that the show comments on because it's like that's just part of the DNA of every episode now and so now I'm trying to like actually figure yeah I'm like I don't know what's going on like I can't I mean she clearly has some kind of allegiance to the she seems like a like a fundamentalist you You know, she's got an allegiance to the old way and the old guard. Yeah, no, it's, it is about the ideology of Keir, where Keir is kind of at odds with itself because it's got the ideology that they have constructed their Bible, and then they've got their corporation, and they're kind of one and the same. I don't think she jives with corporation.

Starting point is 00:03:21 She jives with ideology, and to get a promotion, or as they call an ascension, it makes sense that she would contest that because it's not about that it's not about the money it's not about the work really it's about the quality of people doing the things it's about the purpose yeah um you know when you are a religious person you you respond to calling more than anything else so I think

Starting point is 00:03:46 uh I think that's why she's so upset with you know it's not about her own legacy it's about honoring something else I think she's an incredibly fascinating character yeah yeah there's a there's a lot going on and we have yeah let's go through I want to answer some of these questions

Starting point is 00:04:02 from our patrons but so far we're off to the races and I just can't wait to watch and now that he has been reintegrated I can't wait to watch episode four I'm so worried I'm so excited for his brain I'm so excited for episode four and yeah they've set up the stakes really well for that

Starting point is 00:04:17 and they're challenging the characters and I love what they're doing with Milchick as well how we don't really know he's that one character where you kind of hope he'll change sides

Starting point is 00:04:34 because he seems to have a compassion for the people he seems to actually have a compassion for the inies but also want to be good here like here and he seems to have some kind of true belief in the mission

Starting point is 00:04:48 even if yeah like the actual way that he is treated is slowly starting to reveal itself as yeah more subordinate he's been he feels like a great example of somebody who you meet and you're like oh my god this guy is so much power and he's like so

Starting point is 00:05:05 respected here at this company and then to watch what happens as he ascends on paper what is a higher leadership role greater responsibility greater you know status he's also being reminded of just how much the board still owns him in so many ways I love the satirical commentary

Starting point is 00:05:22 on when they gave him the paintings of inclusion yes yeah these newly re canonicalized events they're just the same ass paintings yeah and it's a way to even say like yeah our history is bullshit it's not real at first i was like are they gonna strut out a bunch of paintings of cure and his black friends and it's like it's worse than yeah yeah it's awful that was terrible yeah like the the the exchange when she says to him like oh they gave me one of these when I reached my position and then they both share that conversation with their eyes back and forth. That was just such a huge, that just spoke so loudly where no words were present for my viewing experience. I think that's probably, I think that's a summation of what I love

Starting point is 00:06:09 about what they're doing in season two. It could have been primarily plot heavy, but somehow they've leaned more into identity crisis heavy on both for any and outy sides, you know. So I think it's really great. Let's answer some questions here, which I'm sure we'll cover a lot more of what we want to talk about. I want to read the first one. Absolutely. Clayton Crook. Thank you so much. John, oh, hey, this is for me. How do you think you're not allowed to comment on it? Yeah, I won't.

Starting point is 00:06:37 How do you think they did that running scene with Mark in the hallway? I think I found some secret cuts, but I'd love to hear your take on that scene. Is the hallway fake? And Greg, when Mark shows up in his cubicle for the first time with his new co-workers. Was there any part of you that we potentially lost was there any part of you that thought we had lost our first season cast? My fear was

Starting point is 00:07:02 we'd lost Ruttero because I assume he and Wocken might be two of the best, two of the most expensive working actors on the show, but and for the both of you, is this the best Adam Scott performance you've ever seen? I genuinely think I have only seen him in Stepbrothers, but do you all have any Adam Scott recommendations? All right.

Starting point is 00:07:18 do a quick old medley here yeah the running scene i thought was terrific it's one of the few things i kind of knew about the show at all is i remember when this dropped and everyone was like the opening seat of episode one's freaking crazy and they got i heard a lot of people say that they had gotten some specific camera rig and were like really pushing it to its limits and i was very dazzled by it and yes i think there are probably some hidden cuts here there i think they've also built a set that is probably easy to like change in mid shoot, take, whatever so they can kind of do

Starting point is 00:07:52 movie magic and trickery in camera and stuff like that. But I would love to watch a breakdown and how that works. For real. Yeah, that's true. Were you afraid we were going to lose the team? No, why would I be? That'd be stupid. You got actors with stature, so I didn't think we would lose

Starting point is 00:08:08 our team, but I am surprised we never saw them again or haven't really seen them much again. No, I didn't suspect that at all. I was kind of quickly becoming impatient on when our main cast of characters would actually come back honestly i'm like i don't know these people i don't really care about these people let's just keep it going guys yeah um and in terms of adam scott recommendations you know he's one of those guys i've seen a lot and i can't outful anything

Starting point is 00:08:34 from like the first thing i ever saw me it was some random show on hbo that only lasted one season about like couples who were having a hard time uh i remember what the hell that show is called um damn i was and i watched the whole thing but he's actually a really good a lot of people knew him from comedy because he's really good at comedy but it was cool about severer oh yeah parks and right god damn yeah

Starting point is 00:08:57 um fully forgot who's in this show and yeah so to do severance where you get it really showcases dramatic chops it's pretty awesome because he is a funny guy uh he watched him in interviews and stuff so it's pretty cool to see him here yeah I'm sure I'll remember some of their Adam Scott wrecked down the line Captain Fernandez would you have like more time

Starting point is 00:09:17 with a replacement refiner What are your theories on why hell they lied about what you saw on the outside? Honestly, no, I don't really. I didn't care about. We had so much to unpack with our current characters. I wasn't really interested in what was obviously not going to be temporary. It was obviously not going to be permanent replacements for our series regulars. So I was fine with getting rid of them quickly.

Starting point is 00:09:43 Based on the fact that a couple of these questions have come up, I imagine there are people who wanted more time with them. I didn't really care to get more time with them. Like they were amusing, but I thought they were there for just the right amount of time, in my opinion. And in terms of theories, John Pitch won during episode three that I completely think he's right about. I'm worried. In case people missed it, I mean, some people skip around here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:07 I mean, I was wondering if maybe they just sent her back on Severed and she is, yeah, she is her outy self, basically being the mole. Well, yeah. recon yeah i mean they had they i think they specifically showed her in episode two watching the footage and looking at their romance as well forming and i think she wanted to experience the sims life yeah so i think she went for it you know i think there's really interesting stuff happening there regardless i believe you're right i find it kind of i think it would actually be good storytelling too if you are right because for her to be dismissive and say innies are not and nothing and then to have different human experiences on the inside with the zinnies yeah i feel like

Starting point is 00:10:55 would be a really good compelling character development yeah otherwise i don't know why she would lie you know so i feel like it's a really good theory yeah i mean the only reason i think she would lie is like oh you know if they find out that i am like literally an heir to this company maybe they'll try and use me if things go that south as some kind of bargaining tool but yeah i feel like the my main theory would be that because there's just so much like you said there's so much interesting character stuff to do and from what we saw them doing in episode three alone it seems like there's a lot that's having a emotional effect on her regardless and i think it's even more interesting if that's the outy version uh and in terms of the replacement refiners i would be psyched if those actors came back just because

Starting point is 00:11:38 i like those actors uh and were incorporated somehow but i am not like like bummed that we're not dealing with them instead of the main cast yeah you're next John all right okay sweets

Starting point is 00:11:52 thank you so much season one finale actually gives us our first any only episode where we were where we never really visit the perspective from the outies sure our innies are on the outside

Starting point is 00:12:05 but they are the ones in control the whole time season two premiere gives us our second any exclusive episode how do you think the status quo has shifted from season one and season two major well i guess that is the question because it certainly seems like they're trying to present major status quo shifts the status quo is probably the same if not probably a bit worse now i would imagine just because you know they're

Starting point is 00:12:31 going to these great lengths to be like yeah lumen listens and you know you've got all these extra freedoms now but part of me yeah imagines that maybe instead of not listening to you while confining you to one room they'll listen to you while you know letting you go to any room so i feel like they're just finding new and more complicated ways more uh sophisticated ways i should say of enforcing their ideology and control i think they're really smart at taking people's desires and the because everyone wants how to how to put this in a quick summary wants to an understanding of who they really are and everyone wants to be seen and everyone wants to be understood as well and the way they concoct that is brilliant because it's enough

Starting point is 00:13:29 to spoon feed where where you feel like you're getting what you want or what you asked for while praying on the fact that you will never be good enough to be more than Kieran Lumen you know, it's so really clever shit of how to

Starting point is 00:13:51 they learn the truth, you know, and what's her man? What's her guy's name? The guy who just saw his wife? Uh, what, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh, oh, oh, Dylan. Dylan.

Starting point is 00:14:04 Dylan. Yeah. like with Dylan, he was the most motivated to get out. He was the one who was first propelled by OTC and now he's becoming the most compliant. It's fascinating because, too, yeah, it speaks to the sort of like change in how like corporate life is handled over time

Starting point is 00:14:24 because obviously like we've gone from situations in, you know, workers' conditions where it's just kind of like you come in and, you know, you just kind of do your job and there's no perks and we're going to work you for as long as we need to, and then we're going to send you home. And, like, as there are more and more unionizations

Starting point is 00:14:40 and more demands for, like, you know, quality working conditions and yada, yada, yada. It's like there are, it seems like what they're kind of presenting you with is this idea that, like, yeah, the pageantry becomes more complicated and more sort of like, uh, emotionally pleasing in one way or another,

Starting point is 00:14:56 but like the actual end result is still the same. Well, I think what Dylan's going through is the best commentary for real world people because how many times do we hear of folks who go to jobs, they hate, and they're like, I've got to quit my job, I got to get out of this job, and they never can get. Well, they never, it's like they choose not to get out of the job. And then they make, they find excuses.

Starting point is 00:15:20 And they're given excuses to stay when they don't really want to be there. And a big part of why they stay, they blame their circumstances and situation. Like he's looking, he's hearing from his wife, that is out, he's kind of a loser. and that the any can actually be something who has some purpose and gets some shit done to provide for the outside world, for the family on the outside.

Starting point is 00:15:45 But a big part of what allows people to rise above this stuff starts with your belief system in your mind, and that's what they're controlling is your belief system, and not just in terms of like here's philosophical beliefs, but how you view yourself and where you stand in the world. So I think what they're doing with Dylan, who I didn't find to be the most interesting in season one, has become one of the most interesting characters to me. 100%. And that scene in the visit was great.

Starting point is 00:16:13 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right. Landed night. Rejignation, I'm interrupting this video because the start of this year, here's some photos. I started off at 218 pounds and had over 20% body fat. Since then, I've dropped close to 50 pounds. I am now at 7.9% body fat.

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Starting point is 00:18:24 The board and the higher up seem almost religious in how they treat Kierregan, almost. Do you see Lumen more as a cult or a corporation? Yes. If you had the chance to explore one hidden area of aluminum right now, where would you go? And why? Goat City. Yeah. I like goats.

Starting point is 00:18:42 I mean, I guess I would want to go see what else lurks beyond what we've seen. But yeah, definitely see the rolling hills of the mammalian sector. It's cool that they're creating like microcults here and like micro societies under this one building. You know, it's kind of like this building is the overall vision of what they have for. control of the population all happening under one roof and like one little earth microcos it's a big laboratory experiment you got your farm people over here you've got your science and art people over here you've got your like corporate soup you got your numbers crunch here yeah exactly yeah it's it's neat what they're doing um but i mean we've talked about it extensively of do we view it as a culture

Starting point is 00:19:26 corporation i think the whole point of this show is to showcase how corporations are like cults yeah and that's good it's like you you don't often view it like that but yeah they really can be they can and cults often will co-op to you know effective corporate tools yeah yeah yeah yeah they're advantage take advantage of the worker being um you know keep people need purpose yeah yeah and so and her decision to return like I said it all depends on what the nature of it is if they're sending her back in to keep an eye on them that makes a lot of sense to me. But I could also see it.

Starting point is 00:20:05 I mean, either way, it's about control being taken from her. Because if Helly's not there, then Helly is in the ultimate form of control. She's just in solitary. She's just in oblivion right now. Yeah, because she doesn't need to continue on there. Yeah. If the whole point was to get some, to show that you can do this, she already proved that and presented herself to the people, you know?

Starting point is 00:20:27 Well, yeah, it's like the idea of like, well, I got severed and it worked for me. like I feel like that mission is kind of moot now because like the event went how it went so it's damage done but like yeah for the any world sending her in there unsevered or yeah that seems like an effective strategy

Starting point is 00:20:44 yeah but yeah I want to explore more of Lumen for sure I want to see where they made the claimation video Jay Rushden Perf Segg here we go first it's Keanu Reeves as the Lumen building voice hell yeah it was and then second gwendolen christie is the goat in the show true that

Starting point is 00:21:07 question do you got any theories about why the goat people are there shouts out real quick to the lumen uh you know the lumen listening workers rights video because that was just delightfully artful and also you know ironic and all that good stuff um i don't know i don't know why they go people like it always makes me the image initially gives me an association to like animal testing for cosmetics and various other chemical products which feeds the sort of shadowy corporation side of the thing but it's also there is this sort of religious occultism in it and i don't know i think there could be this comment partly on like we have all these complicated different things and they're people doing stuff but like is anything actually happening here or is it just kind of like weird you know cyclical chains of just people asserting effort into stuff that'll never actually materialize out in the real world. I have to imagine they're making something.

Starting point is 00:22:06 But the goats, I don't know, maybe they're genetically modifying them. Who knows? I don't know how, like, it's... I don't think there's any real. My theory is that it is just bullshit tasks like the rest. Like, they put up a lot of things

Starting point is 00:22:20 to make it seem like what they're doing is important, but nobody really knows what they're doing. And no one really knows what bigger purposes is actually serving. But they all feel like it's important, you know? It seems like, yeah. Like they say, we're doing exports. Like, what the fuck does that mean?

Starting point is 00:22:34 You know, like, everything's so generalized. So I don't, I feel like they have to amount to something, right? Because you feel like, you know, the goats and, like, why else would you breed goats and create all this land and stuff? But everything just feels like some more of the societal experiment and less, yeah, I'm not sure. Because, like, I don't know what the numbers thing could mean. the scary numbers I don't know what that means I think they're well-placed things

Starting point is 00:23:02 to tease your brain because it allows you the viewer to have fun thinking of what could they actually be making or doing on the other side of this but at the same time I think in effect

Starting point is 00:23:12 with what the show is actually dealing with it does kind of speak to the concept of this being like a human lab rat experiment basically like it almost feels

Starting point is 00:23:24 like Lumen is a place where we test things out on people and then take that info and apply it out into a society we were attempting to further and further shape in our own image i don't know but it's very fun to think about and it's presented in a way where i feel like somebody knows even if i don't know and i think that's a good thing the show still feels smarter than me not like it's just making up random shit to keep me disoriented very well could be though who knows pierre the reject i just watched severance for the first time because you guys glad you guys

Starting point is 00:23:57 or reacting to it. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Which character do you think is a standout of the series? Well, I mean, it's really easy to go to Tremel Tillman, who's consistently killing it and having to... What I love with Tremel Tillman's performance is he's got two performances going on.

Starting point is 00:24:16 Three. He's got three. He's got the superior performance, like employee superior. He's got, when he's alone, and he's got when he's interacting with someone who's hired. up there's three different shades of this one guy and you really see how all three is so even though he's not severed who he is as superior is very different as a as an underling completely different

Starting point is 00:24:43 and so that's why I really love him I mean everyone's kind of a standout right now I'm waiting a little bit more for a thrust now with what they've been doing with John Totoro here I think there's been a really taking their time with his development yeah and after after everything that happened in season one but so far honestly it's been dylan who's been the stand out to me in these last three episodes yeah he has definitely gotten the biggest influx of like tenderness and a different kind of twisted exploration of all this stuff that's been really gripping for season two i think i would agree though generally like mark is a great character uh milchick is milchick and cobell i think are are equally fascinating in a lot of way.

Starting point is 00:25:29 I think they're less cobells maybe than there are milchicks for various reasons. But like, I think she's very fascinating and very gripping to watch and performing in a way. Tramelt-Telman's really cool because I've never seen him before until this. And Mission Impossible. But Patricia Arquette is, like, I've seen her in so many things. She's great and a lot of things. but like this is a wholly different mode for her to exist in

Starting point is 00:25:57 and also a fascinating and grossing character. Yeah. Shouts out to John Chaturre though. I've never seen him in a role like this and I really love watching him in it. I really love what he brings to it. Yeah, he's great. Heck yeah.

Starting point is 00:26:12 Jedediah Jadaya, I hope I'm, I hope we got the name transferred properly. Cuffy. How do you guys think you'd react to finding out your wife you thought was dead was alive would you be able to go back to lumen or would you even believe quote yourself based on the way outie mark found out he had a hard time thinking it was real um i think the show handled the debate of that decently well in the sense that i'm sure you know it's like such a huge thing to have break from the idea of reality you've had for so long so uh i feel like you would bargain or try to rationalize but also that the knowing what you've been through

Starting point is 00:26:56 in the prospect of what's happening I think the idea would just be too strong to ignore forever and then you would probably have to go find the answer so I don't know I guess I would certainly be very perturbed and disconcerted

Starting point is 00:27:13 and it would probably get under my skin well the three you see my final I was having a heart I think it's real these three episodes are sort of a arc for Mark believing that. You know, he's first introduced. In episode one of this,

Starting point is 00:27:29 he's told us, and he shouted that, but he's in complete denial about it, no matter how many conversations are having, he's in denial about it. And then at the end of episode two, when he comes face-to-face of Kobol,

Starting point is 00:27:38 while she's in the car, and Gemma's brought up in her reaction, you could see that he's starting to think, like maybe there is some truth to this. And then the third moment is, of course, when he's with, I forget her name, surgeon lady.

Starting point is 00:27:51 So you have three specific instances that push him over to the belief of that. If it was just one thing, I don't know if we'd really buy it, right? Like there's a lot to kind of wrap your head around. But I think the way they weaved in his belief that it actually happens. And I like how when he does believe it, there's no questions asked about how to proceed. Yeah. It's like pedal to the metal, reintegration. This is the only thing that would motivate him to want to get it back,

Starting point is 00:28:20 considering the only reason he got separate was because he lost her. So I feel like the way they handled that was brilliantly done. Really graceful. And it's kind of cool that we're watching this. We've been really lucky with the three episode chunks because they've kind of panned out well

Starting point is 00:28:35 for like Act 1, Act 2, Act 3 structures. I wonder if they kind of viewed their seasons like that because it's just kind of like this. I mean, I didn't know that before doing it, but they just got lucky with the choice. We've got one ringer episode this season. Yeah, because I feel like these three episodes, episodes feel like a complete chunk of a very specific chapter of the season totally and and even right down to like mark finally getting reintegrated like a perfect lift hanger right oh and oh god and the intercutting the match cutting of yeah yeah and the reflection of him waking up on the table for the first time how do you think you find out uh yeah not well i'd be i'd be late i would it's you know when you're dealing with grief or people dying or

Starting point is 00:29:20 bad news a lot of the time it's it can be scary to feel hopeful because you're afraid you're going to get disappointed or hurt all over again so i'd imagine be back with that but i tend to be the guy who's like fuck you got to take a chance but i go back to lumen uh i would go back to lumen in the way how he's deciding to go back to lumen yeah i'd be a man on a mission for sure yeah why i'm always i become a man on a mission for a lot of things so yeah absolutely I'm a man on a mission for a good finger trap So I definitely go back Yeah for sure

Starting point is 00:29:52 Another great three episodes So for some reason Like my heart rates It's been like kind of kicking in For the past like 45 minutes I don't know why It's been like really going up there And it kind of tires me out

Starting point is 00:30:03 Instead of wakes me up So if it seemed a little bit off I apologize But thank you guys for being here And keep a lookout As we cover the next three episodes Of severance Hopefully they went a bunch of Emmys

Starting point is 00:30:16 Hell yeah And then these videos get so many views. Yeah, watch them twice, three times. At the time of filming this, we've only uploaded one upload. You know, we're not. That's performed pretty well, actually. So, yeah, we're content. As long as we get to watch this show and be caught up in the conversation.

Starting point is 00:30:33 Thank you guys for being here. We'll see you soon, Reject Nation.

The Reel Rejects - SEVERANCE SEASON 2 Episode 1, 2, & 3 REACTION!

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