WOE. FROLIC. DREAD. MALICE.
- In the second episode, we're treated to a shot of Helly's head being cut open as part of the severance implant procedure. Ugh.
- The punishments in the Break Room, where innies who act out are tortured:
- Petey plays a recording of an audibly upset Mark reciting the dictated creepy apology.
- Later, Helly is forced to recite the apology over 1,000 times while a bright light is shone in her face.
- After one visit to the Break Room, Outie Mark checks out of work with his knuckles visibly reddened from a punishment. Lumon told him that he caught them while moving a water cooler bottle.
- Helly and Dylan muse over the low voice they both heard. Dylan hears a baby crying revealed to be his son and Helly hears her father.
- Helly's method of resigning which her outie cannot ignore: hanging herself in the elevator, so her outie reawakens mid-suicide attempt. Mark is visibly traumatised just witnessing it, and Helly has visible skin abrasions from it for the rest of Series 1.
- It is revealed that Gabby Arteta used severance in order to avoid remembering the pain of childbirth. Which means that there is an alternate version of her buried in her mind, which was building her own plans for her son, underwent the agony, and was then turned off like a switch instead of raising her child.
- Turns out a waffle party is getting to watch a bunch of strangers in masks yanked straight from the Uncanny Valley do a creepy dance in an insanely dark room in Kier Eagan's house... after eating waffles. This takes the cake for the most surreal moment in an already surreal show.
