The cast of 'Severance' dives headfirst into the internet’s wildest fan theories and sets the record straight! In this video, Adam Scott (Mark,) Patricia Arquette (Harmony Cobel,) Britt Lower (Helly,) John Turturro (Irving,) and Zach Cherry (Dylan) tackle everything from cloning conspiracies to the true purpose of the goats, and even what the theme song might be trying to tell us.
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00:00Okay, at Subject Proposal 903 says,
00:04the goats are the board.
00:06Now I'm dyslexic and I read that first,
00:08the goats are board.
00:10And I was like, well, you just wait
00:14to see how board the goats are.
00:19At SCDSCO, which for me is scud-sco, says,
00:25Newman's Purpose is human cloning.
00:28I believe Ms. Casey is a clone of Gemma,
00:30which is why she behaves so strangely.
00:32This could explain what the goats are for,
00:34cloning experimentation.
00:36And what MDR does.
00:38Identifying abnormalities in clone genome sequences,
00:42question mark.
00:43Hmm.
00:44Parentheses, this person used lots of parentheses.
00:47This sounds like what Newman would be doing
00:50in like a super boring version of Severance.
00:55I think this person is really a scientific person.
00:58Scientific background, I would break it down.
01:00Don't you think?
01:01Honey, you should ask that.
01:02Why you're on the trail, son?
01:04No, I'm just kidding.
01:07You are very far off and wrong, bing, ging-gong.
01:12No, I think this person is, for them,
01:14that's what the show is.
01:15Yeah.
01:16And I would say, good for you.
01:17Back to the starting line.
01:20No, no, no.
01:21We just affirm you.
01:24Yeah, I say, you know.
01:26Just as in general, not about this.
01:28We just affirm you.
01:29We affirm you, Skidisco.
01:31You are enough.
01:32Let's see what Jimmy has to say.
01:35Let's take a look at the theme song
01:36for the new hit show, Severance.
01:37It uses a technique called pedal point,
01:38which is where a note typically in the bass is sustained,
01:41often to create tension.
01:42In this case, our pedal is Do,
01:43which is C under wacky dissonant chords in the right hand.
01:46♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪
01:53The important takeaway is that the right hand's
01:54dissonant chords contrast perfectly
01:56with the left hand staying on one note,
01:58creating a tension that is obviously very fitting
02:00for this kind of show.
02:00I mean, our composer, Teddy Shapiro, is unbelievable
02:04and won an Emmy for this theme song.
02:07My daughter did figure out how to play
02:10the Severance theme song from YouTube.
02:13Perhaps it was from at DJIVVI.
02:17It doesn't surprise me that Teddy is using
02:19a kind of complicated technique like this
02:22because he's brilliant.
02:23Wow.
02:25That's genius.
02:26That's kind of what Christopher Walken was saying
02:28about the right hand is doing one thing
02:29and the left hand is doing the other.
02:30That's our characters, basically.
02:32Yeah.
02:32Those are our characters.
02:33Are your characters the same handed as you are?
02:37No, left and right.
02:38Well, I appreciate your musical analysis.
02:41I think you're right.
02:42And I also do think that there's something normal
02:46about one hand, the sustained note,
02:49while we do have this dissonant other chords.
02:52If chords can be scary,
02:54let's just call them scary chords.
02:55I don't have any insight that that was intentional.
02:58And yet I imagine that really was intentional
03:00because choosing score for material,
03:04film or television, is very specific.
03:06So I don't think that there's any happenstance
03:09that happened here.
03:10I think it's absolutely intentional.
03:13At Tim Plausible, fantastic name,
03:16says there's a big, oh, revelation coming
03:20about Dylan's Audi.
03:22He's the only one we didn't see in his Audi life
03:24for any length of time.
03:26It's true.
03:26We didn't see Dylan very long in the Audi world
03:30other than in the closet with his son.
03:34Now that we saw the MDR crew's Audis
03:37walking into season two,
03:39we suddenly have like twice as many characters,
03:41which is an incredible opportunity
03:44because we have these unbelievable actors.
03:46So now we get to see these other parts of their lives.
03:50We've got a companion piece,
03:52which is at fine piece 7936,
03:56who says he thinks his Audi must work out.
03:59Besides lifting weights,
04:00what would cause his arms to be frequently sore?
04:04Well, listen, his arms are like this all day.
04:07He's on that computer, you know,
04:08so his triceps, you know, are sore.
04:11I think he gets a flu shot every morning.
04:14I think that would kill you.
04:15And also lifting weights.
04:17Is that something he imagines he does?
04:19We talk about it.
04:20We talk about it, but he talks about a lot of things.
04:23He thinks he's a pirate.
04:24Yeah, so I think that's some kind of like,
04:27you know, projecting.
04:28Lady Lena says,
04:31seems that red things are untainted by Lumen.
04:35Blue and green have a connection to the company.
04:37When Dylan bites Milchik, the lights turn red.
04:41When Miss Casey performs Mark's wellness session,
04:43her dress is red.
04:45Lumen facilities are blue green.
04:47Much of Miss Selvig's wardrobe is blue.
04:49Can anyone expand on my theory to add to the list?
04:53This is an incredible example of the kind of rich detail
04:58that fans of Severance go into.
05:00It's an amazing theory.
05:01Well, when Dylan bites Milchik,
05:03the lights turn red.
05:04They have to turn red.
05:05There's blood.
05:06There's an alarm.
05:07It's an emergency.
05:08Also one of my favorite moments
05:10when Zack bites Milchik.
05:11I talked about it before,
05:12but I can't get enough of that.
05:14No!
05:15No!
05:16No!
05:17No!
05:18No!
05:18No!
05:19What does it mean?
05:20Get him off me!
05:22It's me!
05:23Get him off me!
05:24No!
05:25I'd like to have a loop of that.
05:27Just him biting him and Trammell's reaction.
05:31I will give you one thing.
05:32That there has been definitely conversations
05:35about different color schemes
05:38in different divisions of Lumen
05:41and what colors upper management
05:44is allowed to wear compared to others.
05:46So, you know, your color theory,
05:49you know, am I an autumn?
05:51Who knows?
05:54Okay, at subject proposal 903 says,
05:57the goats are the board.
05:59Now I'm dyslexic and I read that first,
06:01the goats are bored.
06:04And I was like,
06:05well, you just wait to see how bored the goats are.
06:09Aren't all the boards goats?
06:11Really?
06:12Just a little food for thought, kids.
06:13It feels like this person is at a board meeting
06:16because it's like they're proposing this subject.
06:18Yes.
06:19903 of them.
06:20The first item on the docket is the goats are the board.
06:23And you know, I'm not going to debunk this
06:25because it's possible.
06:27The goats could be the board.
06:28No, the goats lay the eggs.
06:29The goats lay the eggs.
06:30I'm debunking it.
06:31The eggs could be the board.
06:33I'm debunking it.
06:34Okay, well.
06:35The goats are.
06:36We still affirm you.
06:37You get a variety of opinions.
06:38At the written passenger says,
06:41my theory is that Cobell's mother
06:43was one of the first test subjects for the severance chip.
06:46There were some snags
06:47and Lumen sends her to the testing floor.
06:50Stuck in her any state.
06:51I believe Greener was working with Cobell
06:53to get proof of reintegration
06:55as she is motivated by her own interests
06:57and wants her mother back.
07:00I think it's super smart.
07:02More and more I feel like a lot of these fans
07:05should write on the show
07:06because these are all really inventive ideas.
07:10I'm just gonna say there's some stuff
07:11you're onto here, friend.
07:13But other things you're just wrong.
07:16Wrong.
07:18Irving paints the elevator to the testing floor
07:21because he and Bert keep meeting and falling in love.
07:24As a result, they have both been reset multiple times.
07:28Irving has had to watch Bert go down in the elevator
07:31to be reset before he was himself reset each time.
07:35And this repeated trauma has worked its way
07:38into Audi Irving's conscious memory.
07:41Wow, this is kind of digging really deep
07:45into Irving and Bert's relationship.
07:46And I think Irving and Bert's relationship
07:48is really such a beautiful part of the show
07:51and certainly one of my favorite parts of the show.
07:53And there's so much mystery and feeling
07:56that come along with that relationship.
07:59I don't want to have to hurt this person,
08:01Manan and Vanan.
08:03But I think your theory and my theory is we diverge.
08:08Ooh, that sounds like you're getting a debunk.
08:11Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
08:13Are you gonna debunk it?
08:14You know what?
08:15I'm gonna debunk.
08:16Oh.
08:18I like the poetry of this.
08:19I love it.
08:20So I just affirm yours.
08:23I love it, I respect it.
08:24You know she sat in the front row
08:26when she was in the class.
08:28I affirm you, you are enough.
08:31But I debunk.
08:32At All Glass Empty says,
08:34so far my theory is that the numbers don't mean shit
08:37and it's some sort of weird fucked up experiment.
08:41Listen, isn't everything?
08:43That.
08:45Yep.
08:47Why is it a?
08:48You're okay, just fence off the bad data like I showed you.
08:51All Glass Empty, you're wrong.
08:53The numbers mean something.
08:55Again, there's so much in the names.
08:57The names, they're telling on us.
08:58All Glass Empty.
08:58All Glass Empty.
09:00It doesn't mean shit, it's all fucked up.
09:02The glass is empty.
09:03Yeah, I think it's coming from the gut, man.
09:06And I think, I'm not debunking that.
09:08You're not wrong, but that doesn't mean you're right.
09:10We know it's weird fucked up experiment.
09:13I mean, yeah.
09:14But why is the glass empty?
09:15And does anything mean shit?
09:16At Park's Pals Podcast.
09:18I have a fan theory.
09:19Ben's claymation thing is like the new Severance intro
09:25because the intro to Severance is claymation.
09:27I think that this, this is in the world too.
09:30And I feel like this guy, this Congressman
09:32has gone into Severance mode.
09:34Him being robotic.
09:35And, cause that's kind of what the show is about too.
09:38I mean, this is a great theory
09:41and would make a lot of sense
09:43and would bring Congressman Murray back into the fold.
09:46And I think he's been gone far too long.
09:48Clearly an android of some sort and we need answers.
09:53And I think this is it.
09:54Ben's claymation may be the link.
09:56Although the opening credit sequence
09:58for Severance is not claymation.
10:01I hate to break it to them.
10:02A philosophy of film.
10:05The world that the outies live in
10:06is an artificial construct of Luhman.
10:08The first clue to support this theory
10:10is that Luhman can server employees outside the building.
10:14The implication of the outside world being artificial
10:17is not only that Luhman is testing and prodding
10:20his employees to see how they react to emotional stimuli,
10:23but that all the people that we've met
10:26in the outside world so far could all be plants,
10:28just like Orbel.
10:30My mind turned at the end when he said plants
10:32and I thought they were like actual green growing plants.
10:35And I was like, are they vegetables?
10:37Yeah.
10:38I think it just goes to show you,
10:40everyone has their opinion, man.
10:44That's like, that's your opinion, man.
10:46It's your philosophy.
10:47We know that you're a philosopher.
10:49That's what happens when philosophers get involved
10:52with the creative endeavor, man.
10:54That is wild and more than frightening,
10:57not just as a theory for severance,
10:59but as a theory for everyday life on earth.
11:03That would be terrifying.
11:04I also wonder at times if certain people
11:08are who they say they are,
11:09if certain people could work for Luhman
11:13that we don't suspect,
11:15but doesn't mean anyone's telling me
11:18any more than they're telling you, okay?
11:20I think it's great that people have all these theories
11:24because it's all within the realm of possibility.
11:28Yeah, that's the fun of it.
11:29I mean, can you imagine if you had to like,
11:30every day come to work
11:32and someone would send one of these messages
11:34and then you'd have to change,
11:35you'd have to adjust your entire character
11:37based on what they tell you.
11:38I've been trying to.
11:39I base my performance on your performance on Reddit.
11:42He reads the Reddit and then he changes it
11:44and then we react to it.
11:46And so that's kind of the show.
11:48Thank you so much for all the thoughtful theories
11:50and keep watching Severance
11:52to see if you got it right or not.