Sweet Vitriol: A Deep Dive into Severance's Eighth Episode
This episode Aubree and Jeff discuss episode 8 of Severance season 2!
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Speaker B: ,: Speaker B:The show where Aubrey and Jeff talk about the shows worth binging.
Speaker B:Aubrey.
Speaker B:It's, it's.
Speaker B:It's the same day.
Speaker A:It is the same day.
Speaker B:And so today's Thursday and episodes of Severance come out on.
Speaker B:But they really don't, do they?
Speaker A:They really don't.
Speaker B:Yeah, they're sneaky.
Speaker B:Thursdays, 9:00pm Eastern.
Speaker B:So we're about ready to watch episode nine, but here we're about to talk about episode eight.
Speaker A:Season two.
Speaker A:Episode eight is titled Sweet Vitri.
Speaker A:Discoveries are made.
Speaker B:At least one.
Speaker B:Yeah, I.
Speaker B:I'm still not sure.
Speaker B:They're really multiple.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Discoveries of any real note, but definitely at least one.
Speaker B:And it was big.
Speaker A:Huge.
Speaker B:I don't know what the outcome of that.
Speaker B:That finding that out is.
Speaker A:Yeah, I don't.
Speaker A:I don't know.
Speaker A:I guess we'll find out tonight.
Speaker B:But it does frame some previous conversations that we've seen a little differently.
Speaker A:Cobelvig is back.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And in a massive way, which we.
Speaker B:I had a feeling was coming, that we're going to get a lot of her because we haven't seen her much at all this season.
Speaker A:I think one other episode two.
Speaker B:I think two, we saw her driving to Salt Snack and this time she actually got there.
Speaker B:She finished the drive.
Speaker B:She didn't turn around.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And Salt's neck is looking.
Speaker B:Looking a little rough.
Speaker A:It is, it's.
Speaker A:It's looking bad.
Speaker B:She stops at what I guess is a coffee shop, but, you know, just could be someone's house, you know, in a third world country.
Speaker B:Didn't really look like there were a lot of lights on.
Speaker B:I mean, it was during the day, but it's still like it was looking rough.
Speaker B:She sits down.
Speaker B:There's a couple.
Speaker B:Couple people around her but not too much going on.
Speaker B:And the guy serving the coffee kind of gives her a weird look when she comes in.
Speaker B:Definitely has knowledge of her.
Speaker B:You know, it's not like he's.
Speaker B:He's surprised to see her, but not surprised she exists.
Speaker A:Yeah, he looks like he's seen a ghost.
Speaker B:Yeah, it definitely looks like a ghost.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Just walked in on his face.
Speaker B:But he still comes up and sees what she needs at his little establishment.
Speaker B:He's got.
Speaker A:Yeah, the name of this establishment is called the Dripping Pot Cafe.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:Not the best of names and.
Speaker B:But kind of.
Speaker B:Kind of makes sense with the way the rest of town looks just run down like, you know, clearly it's one of those towns where there was industry and now there's not.
Speaker B:As we move on, we kind of learn that that industry was Lumen.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:That they had a large presence there, and maybe so have some presence, but definitely not what they did.
Speaker B:The town is run down.
Speaker A:Harmony, we find, definitely knows this guy.
Speaker A:She's given him the Cobell avid attitude, for sure.
Speaker A:He says, seats are for paying customers.
Speaker A:And she says, well, buy me a coffee then.
Speaker A:She is so satisfied.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Her name has never made sense.
Speaker A:She's not very harmonious.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:She doesn't deserve it.
Speaker A:But she asked him to meet her at the factory.
Speaker A:He does.
Speaker A:I think he's, like, trying to figure out what she's doing here.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I definitely see more out of curiosity than anything else.
Speaker A:The factory, like you said, is owned by Lumen.
Speaker B:It.
Speaker A:It's got a Lumen Industries print on the side of it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Pretty faded out.
Speaker A:Mm.
Speaker A:And it looks like it's no longer in use.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, and with that level of wear and tear on that building, for sure.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Harmony says that Kieran Imogen met at the ether mill while she's looking at the factory.
Speaker A:Talking to Hampton is his name.
Speaker B:Mm.
Speaker A:And we get to find out that Harmony and Hampton were co workers there as children.
Speaker A:What are you doing?
Speaker A:Lumen.
Speaker B:Yeah, I mean, Ms.
Speaker B:Wong, you know, it's not really that surprising.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But we didn't see many kids until her, so I don't know.
Speaker A:And we find out that they were both getting high off ether while they were there.
Speaker A:What the heck?
Speaker B:Seemed kind of like maybe in that town, there wasn't much else to do.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And we see Hampton selling it at the beginning of the episode.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Giving it to that old guy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:There's a lot of old people in this town.
Speaker B:Yeah, there are.
Speaker A:I don't see any children anymore, so I don't know.
Speaker B:Not the kind of place you'd want to have children.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Harmony asked Hampton to drive her to house because she says they will know that it is her.
Speaker B:If they're watching the house, they're gonna see her coming.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And she needs to get something from there.
Speaker A:We don't know what right now, but.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And when she gets there, it doesn't even seem like she fully knows what.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But we later find out Sissy is her aunt, which I kind of guessed, and then they confirmed it at the end of the episode, but.
Speaker A:And it doesn't seem like they have a very good relationship.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:No, it does not.
Speaker B:She does not want her and especially Hampton there at all.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker A:But Harmony pushed past.
Speaker A:Like, I'm getting In here, whether you like it or not, kind of attitude.
Speaker A:And she goes upstairs, and we see her old bedroom.
Speaker A:Kind of weird.
Speaker A:There's nothing in there, but.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Just some measurements on the door frame.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then she tries to go and get into Sissy's bedroom, but we see a plaque on the wall that says Celeste Sissy Cobell written on it.
Speaker A:And it's a plaque that says Quarterly Striver, Fourth Quarter, Head of Vision and Youth, Apprentice Matron on it, which seemed interesting.
Speaker A:Don't know what that means, but.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, most.
Speaker B:They're phrasing, you know, the Wintertide fellow and all this, you know.
Speaker B:No idea.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:But Harmony goes downstairs and asks where her things are, and Sissy says she sold them to the poor.
Speaker A:Yeah, I gave all your stuff away.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Didn't even, you know, give it away.
Speaker B:Just sold it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:To the people who can't afford things, I guess.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That was weird.
Speaker A:Phrasing.
Speaker A:Harmony talks to Sissy about asking if anybody called, and Sissy says Mr.
Speaker A:Drummond called.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:It seems like she already knew Mr.
Speaker B:Drummond, but definitely at least respected him, you know, because she's still a luminite.
Speaker A:She is.
Speaker A:We see a bunch of, like, lumen, like, shrines, kind of like Harmony had in her house.
Speaker A:We even saw.
Speaker A:Whoa.
Speaker A:And all the.
Speaker A:All the faces from the waffle party as little trinkets in her room.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Which Harmony eventually finds the key to her mother's room in there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Even though sissies, like, trying to plead with her not to do it.
Speaker B:And she never follows her up there to try to stop her.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:That was so bizarre.
Speaker A:Like, you're so against her being there, but you're not going to follow her upstairs.
Speaker A:You're just going to yell at her from downstairs.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I don't think she could have stopped her anyway.
Speaker B:Like, you know, I think Harmony's got some.
Speaker B:Some years on her, you know, enough years younger, but still like that.
Speaker B:She didn't even attempt.
Speaker B:It was, I thought, a little weird.
Speaker A:And unlike Harmony's room, that was completely bare, this room has been untouched since Harmony's mother passed away.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like, to the point where I'm like, is the body in there?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, my gosh.
Speaker A:That would be.
Speaker A:That'd be crazy.
Speaker B:It would be only slightly more crazy than what Harmony does when she takes the breathing tube that she'd been keeping, hooks up to the machine and puts her mouth on it and starts breathing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:That's weird.
Speaker A:It is.
Speaker A:But I feel like you do crazy things in grief.
Speaker A:I mean, I'VE never lost someone that close to me.
Speaker A:But, yeah.
Speaker A:She does talk about how she wasn't there when her mother passed.
Speaker B:Yeah, I get.
Speaker B:You're right.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:And maybe she just never had time to process it because it wasn't recent.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:From the way they talked.
Speaker B:So I don't know.
Speaker B:That was weird, man.
Speaker A:And it was super weird, too, that she, you know, she fell asleep crying.
Speaker A:But you can see time has passed because it gets dark.
Speaker A:And you know, who is so upset with her being there does not go up and ask her to leave.
Speaker B:And Hampton stayed for that whole period.
Speaker A:He just stayed outside for that whole time?
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:What?
Speaker B:Until.
Speaker B:Until you, you know, hear them arguing.
Speaker B:And she wakes up as Hampton makes his way up there, too, to one of the weirdest scenes in the whole.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Series where they both take the ether and then kiss.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And then passing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And somehow that gets Harmony to have an idea on where, you know, something might be the thing she's looking for.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Outside.
Speaker A:Outside.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So they go outside and look in.
Speaker A:Was that, like, a seller?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:She finds, like, a box of old things.
Speaker A:She finds, like, a yearbook.
Speaker A:We see that she was on a team of some kind.
Speaker B:With James.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:With Jamiegan, which I always thought was Jane J A N E, but I guess not.
Speaker A:Their family was just not weird enough or normal enough, I guess, to put an S on the end of it.
Speaker B:Oh, they were definitely weird enough.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Maybe I didn't say it right.
Speaker A:And then she finds a trophy of James Egan's head bust.
Speaker A:A bust that says Wintertide Jame Egan, Winter Tide fellow.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So I guess she won.
Speaker A:She did.
Speaker B:She did win fellowship.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And she opens the bottom of it with a screwdriver and gets out a.
Speaker B:Notebook with a whole bunch of information on that she needs to go show.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And it turns out, as you look at the drawings and Ms.
Speaker B:Cobell is talking to Sissy, that she indeed is the one who came up with the idea of severance.
Speaker B:The chip, the brain waves, the sketches, the Glasgow block, the overtime contingency.
Speaker B:All of that is in her notebook that she.
Speaker B:And she now has proof that she came up with all that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That was insane.
Speaker A:And she tries to, like, show to, like, I guess, gain her favor.
Speaker B:Dan.
Speaker B:Sissy tries to throw it in the fire.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Like, she doesn't care about truth.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:She's worried about upholding Lumen, upholding the Egan family.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:That was nuts.
Speaker A:But thankfully, Harmony stops her.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:She's got some power on her.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And she just kind of realizes that she's not going to win her aunt over.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:At all.
Speaker B:I'm out.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So she leaves with.
Speaker A:She tries to go get Hampton, I guess, but somebody's in cars on their way to house.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And he.
Speaker B:He's like, hey, take the truck.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And for some reason he stays there.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I guess to slow them down, whoever it is that's coming.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And as she's driving away, and he's like, tame these four tempers.
Speaker B:Like he's ready to fight.
Speaker B:And he probably is.
Speaker B:I don't know that that means good things for him.
Speaker B:Like, it could mean he's gone.
Speaker B:He's dead.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:For the third time this episode, we see Devin calling on the phone as she's in the car.
Speaker A:This time she finally picks up.
Speaker A:She didn't answer the last two times.
Speaker A:And we hear Devin say, mark reintegrated.
Speaker A:And Cobell says, let me talk to Mark now.
Speaker B:And serious as a heart attack.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So serious.
Speaker A:And Mark says, hello.
Speaker A:And she's like, tell me everything in that exact voice.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Maybe.
Speaker B:Maybe a little.
Speaker B:A little more genteel than that.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:But, yeah, pretty close.
Speaker A:And then it ends and sets us.
Speaker B:Up for the episode we're about to watch.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker B:Which means we probably won't get answers to this until episode 10, because they like to go every other.
Speaker B:Give us a reveal and then go.
Speaker B:So this one's probably dealing with stuff and Burton Irving, honestly.
Speaker B:Probably.
Speaker A:You think so?
Speaker B:I do.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I do.
Speaker B:Because we had the Burton Irving episode in between Mark passing out.
Speaker B:Being after flooding the chip with reintegration.
Speaker B:Well, little hopscotch for you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I don't.
Speaker A:I don't like that.
Speaker A:I do have one kind of observation, and the best quote of the episode.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:Had nothing to do with any of our main characters.
Speaker A:But at the beginning in the Dripping Pot Cafe, you see this old lady named Rose and she says, you can top me off anytime.
Speaker B:And that's all she means.
Speaker B:She's just talking about coffee.
Speaker B:She is.
Speaker B:She's just wanting.
Speaker B:She's a caffeine fiend.
Speaker A:But she says it like she's talking about something else.
Speaker A:I mean.
Speaker B:No, no, no, no.
Speaker B:She just talking about coffee.
Speaker B:She's caffeine fiend.
Speaker B:And that's definitely all that she meant.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker A:So that was episode eight of Severance of the Worth the Binge podcast.
Speaker A:We're really excited to watch episode nine here in a second.
Speaker A:But we would love to hear from you, hear your thoughts, your theories, your.
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Speaker B:Yep.
Speaker B:Do it.
Speaker A:Do it now if you want.
Speaker A:It's fine.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:We'Ll see you later.
Speaker B:Bye.
