S1E1b-SEVERED-Good News About Hell - PT2
Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast
Allen Stare
4.8 • 733 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
You're back! Everytime you find yourself here, it's because you decided to come back. If you remember last time, we left Mark on the Severed Floor just as he was given the title of "Department Chief" in MDR. His good buddy Petey is no longer with the company. No explanation was given. Mark is upset about it...but what are ya gonna do?
We'll join Mark and Irv on the other side of the glass for that oh-so-cringy intake interview. What we saw last time did not go well...and, surprise, surprise...it doesn't get any better. After it's explained to her where she is, Helly's going to discover some hard truths about being an innie.
We'll also be leaving work with Outie-Mark. His outie life is somewhat depressing. His sister is sweet, but his brother-in-law is WEIRD with a capitol "R" for "Ricken". We'll be joining the gang for a unique dinner party...DON'T come hungry.
We're also going to meet the missing Petey and man, does he have some stuff to tell!! There's a ton happening, refiners!! Grab a cup of bold, dark Rwandan Coffee, fire up your workstation and let's re-open the file 'Good News About Hell' !!
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| 0:00.0 | Severed, the Ultimate Severance Podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome back, Refiners. You've once again found yourself listening to Severed, |
| 0:18.8 | the Ultimate Severance podcast. I'm your host, Alan S. Severd is a deep |
| 0:23.6 | dive rewatch filled with spoilers. Everything is fair a game from the first season of Severance. |
| 0:30.0 | If you remember last time, we were in the middle of the file marked Good News About Hell. It's time to open |
| 0:35.3 | that file again, refiners, and pick up where we left off. You remember |
| 0:38.6 | Mark had a meeting in Cobel's office. He was told he would be replacing Petey as the new department |
| 0:44.5 | chief. We don't know what happened to Petey, just that he's no longer with the company. Mark's first |
| 0:50.1 | assignment as chief is to do the intake interview for a new severed employee. |
| 0:55.2 | We cut out of Cobel's office to a close-up of a hand about to get a drink from a water cooler. |
| 1:00.6 | The shot widens out to reveal it's Irv. He's ruminating. |
| 1:04.1 | A last refiner who was a woman was... Carol, gentleman's old seat. |
| 1:08.3 | Mark and Irv are in a dimly lit room with what looked to be green padded blocks on the walls. |
| 1:14.3 | It looks like soundproofing. |
| 1:15.5 | Mark is at a table behind a microphone going over the binder he was given by Milchick. |
| 1:20.3 | Irv is consoling Mark about Petey, but Mark says he's fine. |
| 1:24.7 | Herb mentions Petey was the only one who got Mark's offbeat sense of humor. Mark's |
| 1:29.6 | reviewing his instructions. So I'm supposed to start with just the input survey? Isn't that a little |
| 1:35.2 | weird? We cut to a reverse angle to find Mark's talking to Milchick who's kneeling down behind the console. |
| 1:40.9 | He seems to be hooking up a TV monitor. Milchick tells Mark to start at 1A and go |
| 1:46.3 | line by line based on her answers. Mark just wants to talk to her. She deserves to have the |
| 1:53.1 | information presented to her in the proper order, just as you had. There is a process for everything |
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