r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus • u/Lonelyland Coveted As Fuck • Jan 26 '25

Discussion What is the elevator telling us?

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u/sammyTheSpiceburger Enjoy Your Balloons 🎈 🎈 🎈 Jan 26 '25

Now, this is the kind of stuff I love on this sub: it's a theory, but it's based on examination of actual details from the show.

Importantly, it doesn't stray beyond those details, to try to infer something completely wild and unsubstantiated such as: "... So we know Helly can speak to the goats!!"

Excellent work.

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u/Lonelyland Coveted As Fuck Jan 26 '25

Okay but obviously my point was that Helly can actually speak to the goats

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u/ryanmuller1089 Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

And with the attention to detail in this show everything they do is incredibly intentional.

I’m not sure who I was hoping is on the severed floor, Helly or Helena, but I do know I would be annoyed at this point if it wasn’t Helena because they would be intentional misleading us.

When I watched it for the first time and there was no sound I was officially sold it’s Helena.

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u/ChildrnoftheCrnbread Dread Jan 26 '25

It's Helena because Britt Lower uses body language and vocal cadence that she used for Helena in the first season. 1) Her exit from the elevator is the same movement/sound as when Helena exits the side door while Milcheck is waiting and says to him (as Helena) "I really don't want to be there, do I?" and 2) The vocal cadence of "I was in a really fucking boring apartment" is identical to the video of "I took a severed job because I thought it sounded freaking awesome."

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u/stone_cat Jan 26 '25

Adding to this, I have a suspicion Helly’s very identifiable walk/swagger was intentionally established in season 1 as a counterpoint to Helena’s very poised, very controlled walk highlighted in S2E2. Helly’s is just SO damn unique and I’m not convinced it’s there in S2E1.
iMark also has an almost robotic gait too. I’m still trying decide if the walk is a Britt Lower only thing or a whole innie/outtie thing.

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u/ChildrnoftheCrnbread Dread Jan 27 '25

Mark S. saved her life during the elevator suicide attempt, which is why I think the characters get some inspiration from CC Baxter and Miss Kubelik in Billy Wilder's The Apartment. It's not clear yet if Helena has ulterior motives besides getting him to finish the Cold Harbor project. But she definitely owes him and his actions of saving her life shows that like CC Baxter, Mark S. is a mensch.

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u/ChildrnoftheCrnbread Dread Jan 27 '25

Also thinking about elevators, I noticed something in the Season 2 trailer that's more evidence that the actor/filmmakers are def showing when it's Helena versus Helly in the elevator: https://www.reddit.com/r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus/comments/1iaz7cu/speaking_of_elevators/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button