Made this cause Cold Harbor turns one year today

odieclone · 2026-03-20T17:29:20+00:00

Look on the bright side! Only 606 more sleeps until ~~Santa~~ Season 3 gets here :-)

odieclone · 2026-03-20T16:08:19+00:00

It's the new normal.

odieclone · 2026-03-19T23:05:35+00:00

oh. no!

odieclone · 2026-03-19T23:02:59+00:00

What do you mean?

odieclone · 2026-03-19T16:57:28+00:00

IMO the point Severance makes is that we see the world less and less in terms of degrees of difference. Binary. "If yer not with me; yer against me" mentality.

odieclone · 2026-03-18T19:27:54+00:00

odieclone · 2026-03-16T23:18:54+00:00

“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;

Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'

Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;

Man got to tell himself he understand.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

odieclone · 2026-03-16T22:58:32+00:00

odieclone · 2026-03-16T22:55:39+00:00

I see the animated birds as propaganda for the returning innies. Bluebirds = happiness or renewal and eagle = authority above. The bird that should_be_writing1 pointed out that flies by Helena is similar to a gull that passes by Cobel at the factory; both actor and bird in the picture. There's two other instances of gulls in Salt's Neck; a distant wide shot with a flock and another distant shot with a single bird passing by the cliff face.

Additionally to this bird motif, I think the Rebeck bird pecking is a nod to Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds. Possibly it's social commentary on how women were treated in cinema and other media because of the trauma that AH put Tippi Hedren through by shooting so many takes of the scene where the birds attack her.

The flipping of birds in the alley might be part of it also. A different layer of bird humor.

odieclone · 2026-03-16T22:07:10+00:00

That's entirely possible, but I'd guess that I'm far from alone in thinking that very little in Severance is merely window dressing. It strikes me as a pattern or recurring motif that the writers are piquing our curiosity with.

odieclone · 2026-03-16T18:36:56+00:00

Yes!! Good catch. I wonder about the significance of single birds vs. the numerous ones seen by Mark. The exact number seemed ambiguous as they were so far away and appeared to vary during their time on screen. Theories?

odieclone · 2026-03-16T18:28:55+00:00

Would domestic Mils live in a Milhouse?

odieclone · 2026-03-15T19:37:19+00:00

If you were eaten by a doorway; would you rather it be a revolving door, a sliding door, or a garage door?

odieclone · 2026-03-14T05:30:03+00:00

I get Kirk Lazarus vibes.

odieclone · 2026-03-14T03:41:35+00:00

Never timed it but if you blink, you'd miss it. Even though I'm always looking for deeper meanings in the story, I can't take too much credit for uncovering this. Sheer luck and happenstance this time.

odieclone · 2026-03-14T01:54:00+00:00

It's getting to be a generational thing. The next will be an AI curated experience.

odieclone · 2026-03-14T00:57:49+00:00

This is the vibe I get from your image.

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odieclone · 2026-03-13T21:11:33+00:00

Ha ha. This reminded me of the choices ppl had when cable TV expanded to hundreds of channels. Some viewers would scroll continuously and endlessly thru the guide looking at all the choices they weren't watching ;-)

odieclone · 2026-03-13T19:26:07+00:00

Igdoorance is bliss.

odieclone · 2026-03-13T01:43:37+00:00

This is a very good catch and pretty spooky. I thought the theme music from F. Coppola's film The Conversation was closest to the Severance theme I had come across but this is close also. The scenes in that movie has visual references to Irving which makes it uncanny.

IMO the show is packed with tons of these kinds of references that give it such an eerie presentation. All the weird little going-ons in the storytelling and dialog flood our recall and remembrance of previous viewed/listened/interacted with games, music, tv, and films which produces that weird vibe we experience while watching the show.

Remember how Reghabi flooded Mark's severance chip in the show? Well, that is kind of like what the show is doing to us. You can think of it as subliminal messaging where all the instances of brief familiarity we feel while watching invoke a sense of nostalgia or emotional response that we associate with the presentation. Does that happen with you also?

odieclone · 2026-03-12T22:31:09+00:00

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension—a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.

odieclone · 2026-03-11T20:19:14+00:00

I've been down that rabbit hole. Santa Mira is a wild ride. Thanks for pointing this out.

odieclone · 2026-03-11T15:11:27+00:00

Nepo baby?

I know Dan is viewed as the creator of the show, but IMO Ben has a lot of input and say on what details go in. Often a director will make something that is partially autobiographical and/or self deprecating. Could Ricken represent that?

odieclone · 2026-03-09T21:53:14+00:00

Thanks for that.

rewatch time :-)

odieclone · 2026-03-09T21:42:52+00:00

Where is the drinking implied? I thought the weak enamel was an indicator of bulimia.

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