On-point description. Distinct waft of weird loser coming from Helena. On top of the whole rich heiress, corporate girlboss, straight up sinister, straight up lonely, repressed childhood trauma thing.
I wonder if she intentionally did it since Milkshake is really in charge, to put him in an even worse position, because sheās probably not meant to be overseeing the floor.
Seeing that hole in his head and then seeing his head hit the floor made me feel a certain way. What if dust gets in there? Or mud from someone's shoe?
How good is the close shot of Marks eye and all you hear are the sounds. Gives us the same feeling he must feel. Has no idea what is happening and his hearing is elevated focusing on each sound. And my god why was she clacking the forceps like they were tongs??? š¤£š¤£š¤£
I assumed she was supervising Dylan and Gretchen in order to maintain Seth's privacy. I don't know what the hell Natalie and Drummond are at that they couldn't cover for Milchick while he was paperclip penance.
I was first waiting for Ms Huang to walk in on them in the "tent room", and then with that shot of the empty office I was sure she'd walk in and catch them or something at that point. It felt a bit weird to me that there was no real consequence of Milchick having left her to manage everything (except maybe Milchick would have been on top of stuff and interrupted them, or maybe this will now be an *approbation*)
The make up on Adam Scott in that last scene was great because man he looked AWFUL. Convincingly ill as fuck. I was cringing thinking about how terrible it must feel to be post out-patient basement brain surgery š
If you go frame by frame in the first scene where reintegration starts triggering at Lumon, as you switch between Lumon/Mark's house, it's so well done with iMark looking well groomed and healthy and oMark looking dishevelled and tired. They almost look like different people. The creepiest part is that the cinematography got his eyes to stay exactly in the same place in frame while the rest of him is slightly off. The left side of Helly's face is also perfectly in place so either they perfectly set them up in camera like that or there was a little bit of camera trickery to get them both to align perfectly.
I'm going to just headcanon that his wicked youth was playing one of his numerous gangster characters lol. But seriously... assuming that wasn't all just a fake story, it's nuts that he would admit to a stranger he did things so bad that he knows he isn't going to Heaven. That ham dinner was really something lol
That moment of Burt eyeing Irving at the door and offering up an affair (or a throuple) was so intense. I think Irving is playing along since his alarm bells went off about the 20 years. You may misremember dates but you donāt forget meeting another Lumon employee coming for dinner.
I was still under the impression they were false and were just planted there to ensure the different departments don't like each other...but you have a point, they could be real after all
Yeah, outie burt just feels like an evil dude. I think the deal is that he worked for lumon and was doing some crazy shit. And then he was like "actually, I'll still do crazy shit for you but I don't want to know I did it"
Itās so hard to pick a favorite character but I keep settling back on Dylan. I tried explaining him to someone who doesnāt watch the show. And I was so disappointed no one on YouTube has made a Supercut of his funniest moments.
"Did everyone sever their balls in the elevator this morning?" was the quote of the week but all of her lines and deliveries were excellent. It's good to have Helly R back
I donāt think Iāve ever cared for a fictional character as much as I care about Helly. Mark being mean to her last week and her taking of her shoes and sitting hugging her knees were heartbreaking. I really REALLY want her to live a long, happy life
My favourite part of that scene, along with these lines, is when Ms. Huang asks what they were doing when the bleeding started, and Mark, with his head still tilted back and holding a tissue his nose as he tries to stop the bleeding, looks over at Helly like, "Yeah, what were we doing?".
I'm tempted to BUY the entire run of Man Seeking Woman just for the handful of episodes where Britt Lower is featured. Even back then, she was a standout.
Omg, you are missing out on so much. He has a very deep and amazing catalog of work going way back. Check out his appearances in the Coen Brothers movies, especially where he plays the lead role in "Barton Fink". He is so unnerving in "Five Corners" with Jody Foster. Actually, let me just post a summary of his incredible standout work in so many groundbreaking movies along the way. I've seen all of these, and they are so good:
He achieved his career breakthrough with Five Corners (1987). He acted in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), and Clockers (1995). He also starred in Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990), Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, The Big Lebowski (1998), and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). He also starred in Fearless (1993), Quiz Show (1994), and Gloria Bell (2018); and portrayed Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series (2007ā2017) and Carmine Falcone in The Batman (2022).
100000%, this is going to get pitched to him and his family as an option and outtie Dylan is going to be the one who has to either decide to ādieā to make his wife happy or live and be a fuck up
oDylan is being set up to be way too self absorbed to make that decision, I doubt they will pitch it to him and if something like that happens - it will be planned between Lumon, iDylan, and Gretchen, and oDylan doesn't get to be in the loop. This was pretty clearly shown in that oDylan begrudgingly agreed not to rush out and buy a new car (a major major purchase maybe once every 5 years tops for a middle class family) but was still insistent that he do a test drive when clearly the family isn't in a position to re-up their car payment/put any cash down.
"everything that's mine, is yours" felt very much like "burt can be shared", but then he gets really defensive about them maybe having relations on the severed floor?? that whole scene is very hard to read. and why does Fields not know to shush about Burt's history? Is Burt like.. leading a double life? Fields seems very out of the loop.
The 'everything that's mine is yours' came across as very sarcastic and passive-aggressive to me. Like it was less of a genuine statement and more of a 'well, you just helped yourself to my husband,' from someone who doesn't want Irving there but has been told he has to have this dinner party and he has to be nice.
I think he doesn't care about outtie Burt since that one is going to hell. But the pure innie Burt that he wants waiting for him in Heaven...well it makes sense that he is more emotionally invested in the behavior of that one
Yeah like is he high up in the company and used the Glasgow block to go down and have relations with unsuspecting innies????? And used severance as plausible deniability to his husband????
I think Fields is in an insane situation. Imagine how evil your partner has to be that you both know for sure heās going to hell, and that the only way for you to get some semblance of him in heaven is for him to give a portion of his brain to a blank slate. Fields seems genuinely nice (but weird) but is having understandably complex feelings about his spouse seeing someone else on the severed floor. Enough to seek spiritual guidance. So I think the emotional stress got to him and he just started being a little more outspoken than he normally isāeg do you think you had sex? And him mentioning his lumon partner 20 years ago. I also couldnāt figure out if it was a romantic partner or a business partner. But I think fields is an ally
I was reading "bitter trophy husband" out of Fields! Burt is maybe a Lumon Exec and Fields has been a stay-at-home husband for the past 40? years. He dives into religion to find meaning and purpose while Burt does his evil life?
Reghabi's eyes during the flooding of the chip, she looked so scared/worried, that is not how you want your surgeon looking when youre the second guy to be reintergrated after the first one died š
Agreed, I think she really wants to do good and help Mark reintegrate, but she is also willing to take risks for the sake of it working quickly. Itās a tightrope walk :(
I feel like she needs to know something she thinks only the innies know, and I get the feeling it might about something or someone personal to her. The way she tried to force herself on him wasnāt normal, seemed weirdly desperate.
I thought the same thing š she looked so worried eyes fuckin wide open bro if I turned around and see my surgeon looking like that Iām getting the fuck outta there hole in my head or not š¤£š¤£
My dog thinks everyone comes to our house with the sole intention of being his friend - he'd be sat like three inches from Drummond trying to get him to play with a squeaky gorilla whilst the dude robbed us blind
Love the symbolism with outie burt and all the flames. Every scene he was in, he had red light on the right side of his face. Goes with the whole innie/outie heaven/hell thing.
Yeah theyāre hitting the imagery hard that Burt is evil. My jaw was dropped when they talked about him going to hell so candidly. He was so different as an innie I donāt know what to think.
That was incredible at the dinner table! Talking about going to hell while the red flame crackled behind him. Meanwhile Irving has his face half in the shadow, as usual, like only half of him is present. Love it.
He was really insistent that Fields was just drunk when he said Burt had been working there 20 years, which apparently was before severance was a publicly known thing. Definitely covering something up.
Always suspected Burt had an important and mysterious part to play in all of this because of who they cast to play the character. Salutations to the great Christopher Walken.
Yeah... Also how would they know who else was at Lumon if Burt was severed?? There would be no "Lumon partner" for outside Burt to know about, let alone for Fields to have met
It was so tense! I love that it still looked Lumon-Y in there with the overhead florescent lights and all the red and blue. Same with Burt's driveway. And what was that clown painting in Burt's home?!
The shot of Helena looking over the booth at Mark is literally the exact same way they shoot the MDR folks looking over each otherās desks. The visual storytelling in this show goes craaaazy!!
And she is probably simultaneously excited and curious, but also disgusted and ashamed of herself for falling for an innie, and of a commoner, no less. Her arc is becoming interesting. And she is going off the company playbook and is going to make a mess of things.
The dark, lit path outside Burtās house made it look almost exactly like Irving was walking across the black corridor towards the testing floor. This motherfucker is going to get kidnapped and itās all oBurtās fault.
I caught Dylanās name, but was there another name we were supposed to see? Wouldnāt Drummond know that Dylan G is a severed employee?
Thereās also a very good chance I missed something, but that shot of the names had me trying to find something that I ultimately, donāt think I found.
I almost wish the episode ended with the mark and Devon bit. His hand trying to grab the glass was something Iāve only felt in my nightmares. Insane episode though I cannot wait for next week.
Yeah, that felt so relatable to a past experience of mine when I couldn't feel my hand due to a medical issue. I just couldn't comprehend that my fingers wouldn't respond to me. It's an utterly bizarre feeling to watch your hand flop around like a dead fish at the end of your arm.
God I had that happen to me once but with my arm. I tried to pick a cutting board up off a table and my arm literally just stopped working, went completely dead and flopped down and the board fucking landed on my toes.
Ending on Burt means that's more important. We obviously know mark will live, we aren't dumb. But we don't know for sure what is gonna happen with Burt and Irving
Sometimes, very rarely I wake up legit thinking I'm having a stroke. Like half sleep paralysis, I can't feel my hands and I feel very dizzy/numb, only lasts like 5 sec but I will jump up from mid sleep like that falling feeling you get sometimes and think "omg I'm actually dying".
Gets me a massive adrenaline burst and can't sleep for a bit, happens maybe a few times a year but I hate it. Awful feeling and seeing him with the glass reminded me of that.
The dinner scene between Helena and Mark is hilarious to me bc theyāve literally had sex. Twice. And she was there for one of the times, and he was there for none.
If I didnāt know any better, Iād say that Helena has developed an erotic fixation on Mark and has plans to pursue both him and his outie and what might be termed a āthrouple.ā
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