#kier eagan

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

We are a normal company.

#sorry idk how to make gifs yet. Also I don't really care enough to learn #severance #praise kier #kier eagan #lumon industries #irving bailiff #john turturro #helly riggs #dylan g #zach cherry #mark scout #adam scott #post o' mine

[the-collector-blog]

Famine. Plagues.

Severance was made shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic. Many things during the pandemic are surreal, and parts of Severance evoke the same feeling.

Employees must wash their hands 10 times a day. Departments are isolated in order to contain pathogens. Soap is just weird.

Everything is so empty. Mark's neighborhood, Baird Creek, "never really filled up," and beside it is a massive graveyard. (On Irving's map of Kier, PE, almost all of the severed employees he marked live right by cemeteries.)

Lumon Industries and Kier Eagan are all about perfecting and curing people and the world. Lumon started as a medical company and still seems to be, at least to some extent. Dentistry, medicine, neurosurgery; they were recruiting pharmacology and psychology college students. Mark and Irving's license plates show Kier's face and, instead of a state name, "remedium hominibus". Latin for "cure for mankind". Lumon wants to "save the world".

Kier was sick as a boy, but healed. Dylan's Eagan bingo cards listed "picture of a boy with rickets"- some part of the Eagan history (or Kier's personal history) included rickets. Illness. Everything at Lumon is about "healing".

There is a lot of weird stuff about food, inside and outside of Lumon. At Devon and Ricken's "dinner" party, they don't eat at all. Patton's "friend in Lima hasn't had a food-based dinner event in-" some significant amount of time. Their guests have discussions about food vs. life. The Kier song that Harmony sings says that he "brings the bounty to the plains".

Dylan's theory might've be a little off, but I honestly think he is very close. "Shit must've gotten pretty bad out there. Famine. Plagues."

#theories #severance #severance show #severance theory #covid pandemic #pandemic tw #kier eagan #mark scout #dylan george #mark s #dylan g #irving b #irving bailiff #helly r #lumon industries #helena eagan #harmony cobel

[sad-hamburger-waiter]

I hadn't seen a comprehensive timeline of the Eagan family/Lumon CEOs, yet-- so I made one. It's imperfect, for sure, but I hope you will let it help you. The blue text indicates the birth year of the family member, while red indicates the year of their expiration.

The Green represents the transition of power between CEOs.

(Edit: There is conflicting information about the transition of power from Leonora to Jame. I have since seen on Lumon's website that Leonora ended her time as CEO in 2008, NOT 2003. But the Severance Wiki page states that she died in 2005. So... how is this possible? What is the truth? Any theories?)

Things I noted while making this:

Jame Eagan has no known birthday, therefore we have almost no idea where/how he fits in the family. This omission seems intentional on the writer's part. I have a lot of theories about Jame Eagan, and how his leadership has changed the direction of the entire company, but I'm saving them for a later post.

I feel that there is also more to the story when it comes to Myrtle Eagan. Perhaps a power-struggle of sorts. We know that Ambrose is "often maligned" (and don't they say history is written by the 'victors'?). We know that Myrtle was determined to be CEO from the age of 7, which is shown in an aspirational light in the Perpetuity Wing, but what if her ambitions are less virtuous? The two of them are so close in age, I can't help but feel Myrtle would have grown up aspiring to be in Ambrose's position. He only served as CEO for two years before she replaced him. Just something else about this family I've been pondering, in perpetuity...

#severance #severance apple tv plus #eagan family #kier eagan #lumon industries #ambrose eagan #myrtle eagan #severance theories #severance s1 #jame eagan #I have a lot of 'Severance' theories sketches and half-baked theories in the works-- so stay tuned!! #severance spoilers #full-time severance blog #my theories #don't judge me for using ms paint #severance 2022

[aeonfvx]

A replica of Kier Eagan’s house / Severance S1E3

#kier eagan #architecture #severance

[lumonofficial]

#kier eagan #kier eagan quotes #lumon industries #lumon #lumon handbook #quotes #quoteoftheday #severance tv

[legeebeeteequah]

When YOU think of Kier

Vs when I see Kier

#like literally #Must be the shadows or smth but I cannot unsee from the get go #*sigh* #Kier Eagan #severance #Owen wilson #lookalike

[joyful-soul-collector]

Imagine a transgender Severed worker

What if a severed trans person woke up on the table and instantly knew what gender they were, even if their outie hadn't quite figured it out yet? Maybe a trans man wakes up in that elevator every day wearing a skirt and blouse and desperately hopes one day his outie will figure it out soon and stop wearing stuff that's so dysphoria inducing.

Or what if that's why they're severed in the first place? Mark severed because he wanted to get away from the grief about his wife, maybe there's a severed trans woman that did the same thing. Maybe she decided to undergo the severance procedure just so that for 8 hours a day she wouldn't have to be in her body anymore, someone else would. God it would suck if she was doing voice training but her innie didn't know how to do that, so she wouldn't be able to practice while at work.

Maybe there's an outie that knows they're nonbinary, but their innie doesn't know because the Lumon handbook doesn't mention anything about more than two genders, so their innie is just stuck feeling really weird about gender and not knowing why or what to do about it.

Idk if Severance ever explore this kind of thing but I'd love for them to somehow

#severance #severance spoilers #helly r #mark scout #irving bailiff #dylan george #helena eagan #kier #harmony cobel #seth milchick #burt goodman #ms casey

[lovely-v]

Another severance rewatch thought: I was wondering who Lumon employs solely to draw the caricatures of Dylan and whoever else earns them, and then also by extent who paints all the paintings from Optics and Design. but there is such an easy answer. It’s simply got to be all AI generated

#veesaysthings #severance #I mean. they would! #that’s why the portraits of Kier Eagan on the cliff look just like that one Dutch painting. #and why the Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design looks like it was made by Goya or something #stolen art I rest my case. #Irving’s paintings are the only real ones

[camcorderrevival]

mmmm......Helly R / Helena Eagan Fight Club AU.........

#saying words recreationally again - nobody look #I wanna say Helly would be the Narrator but I feel that she'd work better as Tyler #because of the way she's brought about #as a way to please Mr Eagan (Kier??) #the dynamic would be different though #because Helly doesn't aspire to be a maniacal cult leader (oversimplification) #I <3 just saying words and forcing other people to see them #Severance

[milfbro]

lumon has such a complicated mythology i could never work there

#i couldn't keep up #if you reach your quota you get to eat a waffle and then... #dress as kier eagan and watch a strip tease of... #two sexy jester women one others in white one other in black #and then one man dressed as a sexy goat #what were they gonna do next??? would they fuck dylan????

[bracketsoffear]

Stranger Avatar Tournament Round 1

Count Olaf vs. Kevin

The Other Mother vs. Norman Bates

Tiffany Korta vs. Sumire Yoshizawa

M3gan vs. Mimikyu

Odo vs. Pavi Largo

Envy vs. Agent Smith

Kier Eagan vs. Koh the Face Stealer

The Autons vs. Ennard

Nosk vs. Clayface

The Thing vs. the Thistle Men

Waxworks vs. the Tethered

Peter Nureyev vs. Steve

The Substitute vs. Double Trouble

Jane Doe vs. Woody

Dark Clown Sado vs. the Toy Soldier

Vee vs. Isabel Lovelace

#Stranger Poll #masterpost

[psygull]

i want to be employed at LUMON INDUSTRIES.

i would locate SCARY NUMBERS and study the EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK. i would eat DEVILED EGGS on the SEVERED FLOOR with my CO-WORKERS. i'll have SUNFLOWER SEEDS every day that are worth ONE VENDING MACHINE TOKEN. i would have a MUSIC DANCE EXPERIENCE every QUARTER. i am also more likely to meet GOATS, RICKEN HALE, KIER EAGAN, HELLY R, and A 3D MODEL OF ADAM SCOTT'S HEAD

i wish i was severed :(

#psygullisms #severance

[the-collector-blog]

Lumon's Senior Refiner Morning Checklist template!

#pics #severance #severance show #severance apple tv plus #mdr #macrodata refinement #lumon industries #lumon #harmony cobel #mark s #mark scout #petey k #petey kilmer #helly r #helly riggs #irving b #irving bailiff #dylan g #dylan george #kier eagan

[athetos]

My 2 last severance thoughts for now:

1. Cobel is so deep in the Lumon cult because a loved one (could be a partner or mother, but I really like the daughter theory since that could be hinted at by her moonlighting as a lactation consultant) was left braindead, or just extremely ill, and Lumon has her in their possession, probably to run severance tests with, like with Gemma (whom I’m also assuming was left braindead from the accident, and maybe her body was donated to science or they straight up paid off the hospital and took her). That’s why she’s so intent on learning more about reintegration, because she wants to hope that there’s some way for loved one to remember her and get her memories back, even after being braindead. This is why she keeps putting Gemma and Mark together, and when Gemma says that she feels attached to him and is unsure why, she smiles! Because it’s proof “love transcends severance”, and she was braindead, so she was able to access at least a little bit of those memories or feelings somehow. You’ll also note that she wants to find out who did the reintegration for petey, but even though she surely has a good idea who it was, and knows graner was most definitely murdered by her, she doesn’t pursue punishing her. She’s either actually on her side, or she wants to join her side. Regardless, I’m positive that she’s only with Lumon for this reason and it explains her actions.

2. I’ve seen a lot of people saying that the work they do is complete bullshit just to see how they handle certain tasks. They’re lab rats, which makes a lot of sense with how the offices are laid out like mazes. And I absolutely believe that at least some of the shit they’re doing is just to judge their reactions; after all, you’d think they’d have been more on their ass for not hitting quota. I’m not saying that theory is bad, I do enjoy it, and wouldn’t mind it going in that direction. But I personally think that the numbers they’re sorting are… people’s brains. They put them in boxes based off the 4 tempers kier never shut up about. Maybe they’re literally planning to make livestock humans like they joked in the first episode - humans fully formed without the tempers (that constitute a human soul) making them the perfect workers that they can abuse as they see fit. Or maybe they’re helping make the implants better, for cases like Gemma and Cobel’s loved one. I don’t know, but I think the tempers match up with the moods the numbers give.

Oh one last thing, the board is just the uploaded or revolving Eagans or whatever the fuck they’re doing. It’s never called board of directors, just board. I know it’s common for people to abbreviate it as just the board, but i want to wager that board actually stands for motherboard, and cobel might not even be fully aware of that. Hell, to tie that in, maybe the numbers they’re sorting are for making an artificial consciousness for the current ceo, Jame, so he can revolve. There’s so much talk about perpetuity and legacy, there’s no way immortality isn’t a goal here.

So, I think Lumon’s 2 main goals are to create the ultimate workforce (and money), and to make the Eagans immortal.

#severance #severance spoilers

[everyfandom-girl]

DAaaamn ok everybody already knew this but Severance has SO much rewatch value?? I mean, it's only my first rewatch, I can't possibly catch everything, but it's all hitting me so severely I feel the need to write it down -- gotta get the emotions out, y'know?

Spoilers under the cut because, seriously, the tension and unanswered questions MAKE this show -!

Knowing that Helly is an Eagan makes me realize how much I didn't notice about her orientation? Milchick saying "when we heard you were coming here, it was like a miracle" is something that feels like a big enough hint that I should've noticed it as weird ("maybe she's important?") but I quickly forgot under the tension of the rest of the show.

Helena's reaction in that scene was SO peculiar to me, too. She seems a little shaky realizing "I really don't wanna be in there" and it makes me wonder -- is the "true believer" she shows to Helly when admonishing her for threatening her fingers... Her real self?

Did her family pressure her into this? How much, if so?

And, and the fact that one of her orientation questions on the table is "What is Kier Eagan's favorite breakfast?" and THEN in episode 2 we see that 2 hours earlier Milchick had said "Did you know his favorite breakfast was 3 raw eggs mixed with milk?"

It's a diagnostic question.

It's something so recent, so weird, so vivid that if the Innie remembers they know the surgery failed.

Fuck, dude.

Between this and Petey's "I'm your best friend. You're my very good friend" line last episode -- and the BRILLIANT sense of normalcy and Episode 1 camaraderie that helps contextualize the rest of the series as an absolute Emergency for all characters involved --

I'm so glad I gave into the urge to rewatch lmaoo

It's only been a week since I finished it but still

#episode 2 rewatch #severance #helly r #seth milchick #severance liveblog #severance reaction

[warningsine]

In what might be one of the most creative TV shows of the last few years, Apple TV+’s Severance takes the much-talked-about idea of work-life balance to the extreme. And, in doing so, brilliantly shines a light on the cult-like atmosphere of modern corporate culture (looking at you Big Tech) and the myth of achieving a true work-life balance.

What is Severance?

In the series, employees of megacorporation Lumon undergo a procedure known as “severance.” The procedure surgically divides the individual’s memories between their work and personal lives. When employees take the elevator down to their floor, they lose all memories of their outside life. Alternatively, the moment they step off the elevator at the end of the day, employees have no recollection of who they work with or what they do. As a result, their work selves are known as “innies,” and the people they are outside of work are called “outies.”

The Cult of Corporate Culture

Severance is essentially a mix of Black Mirror meets The Office with a splash of Lost thrown in. But despite its sci-fi, futuristic premise, it hits the nail on the head when it comes to the inhumanity and cult-like tenants of today’s corporate culture.

There’s the deification of Kier Eagan, the founder of Lumon, reflected by the Perpetuity Wing — a Madame Tussauds museum-like shrine to the founder and his descendants — which employees get to visit for a rare break from their perpetual work. It might seem over-the-top and ridiculous, but it closely mirrors the way society views CEOs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos as more than mere humans.

The obsession and cult-level worship for Lumon’s founder and his descendants also unlock the deeper reason for the company’s focus on its leaders’ infallibility and accomplishments: showcasing how a life of working at Lumon provides a “greater purpose” or a sacred mission. Much like the overly ambiguous corporate mission statements found on every modern company website, Lumon hopes to get buy-ins from the “innies” to dedicate their entire lives to serving the company by making them believe they are a part of something bigger than themselves, something making the world a better place. In reality, the “outies” wouldn’t even be able to tell you what it is that they do at work. This is quite similar to reality in which many working in the corporate world could quote their organization’s mission statement in a second, but would have a hard time pinning down exactly how their day-to-day role adheres to or advances that mission. It’s the idea of the mission that matters.

Then, there are the perks. Just like in real life, they are completely meaningless, and yet, just like the characters in Severance, we attach value to them because the company has convinced us of their value; they signify our own worth and contributions to the greater mission.

In the show, it takes the form of finger traps, erasers, and an engraved paperweight, which one character treats as his greatest life accomplishments. In real life, perks to incentivize you to work overtime and hit your goals could be a shout-out at the next company-wide All Hands meeting or a gift of corporate swag AKA t-shirts and mugs with the company logo. Outside the context of work, they mean nothing yet we are still willing to sacrifice our mental health by working harder and staying later for a chance at “earning” these rewards.

The Myth of the Work-Life Balance

Then there’s the main premise of the show: how to achieve true work-life balance. To the leadership at Lumon and those who willingly opt-in, the severance procedure unlocks unparalleled productivity by getting rid of the distractions of home life.

On the surface, the procedure seems to successfully accomplish the ever-elusive idea of work-life balance by creating a physical barrier between the two in the brain: your work self and your normal self. Never the two shall meet.

But what the show gets right is how even a medical procedure isn’t enough to solve the work-life balance problem permanently. Because who we are at home, while different, is still a part of who we are at work. Compartmentalizing is the goal, but segmenting out your brain like that doesn’t work in real life and it doesn’t work in the show.

We are good at our jobs because of our skill sets and professional experience, but our memories, our lived experiences, inform how we respond to certain stimuli and situations. As a result, it also plays a role in our job performance. Similarly, you can’t help if the stress of an upcoming work deadline stays on your mind well after you’ve clocked out.

The increase in remote work with the global pandemic over the last two years has only blurred this divide even more, begging the question of whether work-life balance was ever actually achievable in the first place.

Is “balance” the impossible goal we should be pursuing or should we reframe our approach and look to achieve work-life synergy? We need to acknowledge that the two don’t operate in silos and understand that they are intrinsically connected and need equal focus, protection, and time. At times, you’ll need to resolve a personal issue at work, and other times you’ll need to do some work during your personal time. The two need to work in tandem; rather than balancing the two and treating them as wholly separate from each other. After all, there is only one of you.

Severance brilliantly illuminates the fallacy of work-life balance and the other lies corporations tell us in order to secure our compliance. Maybe the ongoing “great resignation” trend means we’ve finally caught on and are no longer willing to accept this status quo. But then again, maybe not.

#severance