Severance (TV series)
Severance (2022-present) is an American science fiction psychological thriller streaming television series developed by Dan Erickson, directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle and debuted on streaming service Apple TV+ on February 18, 2022.
Season 1
[edit]Good News About Hell [1.01]
[edit]- Harmony Cobel: You know, my mother was an atheist. She used to say that there was good news and bad news about hell. The good news is hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The bad news is whatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.
- Harmony Cobel: [As Mrs. Selvig] You know, my mother was a Catholic. She used to say it takes the saints eight hours to bless a sleeping child. I hope you aren't rushing the saints.
- Helly R.: [reading calmly into camera] My name is Helly R. I'm making this video roughly two hours before it will be shown .. to me. I have, of my own free accord, elected to undergo the procedure colloquially known as Severance. I give consent for my perceptual chronologies to be surgically split, separating my memories between my work life and my personal life. I acknowledge that, henceforth, my access to my memories will be spatially dictated. I will be unable to access outside recollections whilst on Lumon's severed basement floor, nor retain work memories upon my ascent. I am aware that this alteration is comprehensive and irreversible.
In Perpetuity [1.03]
[edit]The You You Are [1.04]
[edit]- Harmony Cobel: If you want a hug, go to hell and find your mother.
- Helly R.: I could not, with a razor to my throat, be less interested in being your family.
- Helly R.: [to Milchick] Well, boss. I guess this is the part where I should tell you to go to hell. Except you're already here.
- Helena Eagan: [on video] Helly, I watched your video asking that I resign. I also received and responded to your previous request. I assumed that would resolve the issue, but now Ms. Cobel says you threatened to cut off your fingers? I understand that you're unhappy with a life that you've been given. But you know what? Eventually, we all have to accept reality. So, here it is. I am a person. You are not. I make the decisions. You do not. And if you ever do anything to my fingers, know that I will keep you alive long enough to horrible regret that. Your resignation request is denied. Turn it off.
- Burt G.: [Quoting Kier] "Let not weakness live in your veins, cherished workers, drown it inside you."
- Irving B.: [Continues Kier quote] "Rise up from your deathbed and sally forth, more perfect for the struggle."
- Burt G.: Exactly.
- Ricken Hale: [in his book] Bullies are nothing but Bull and Lies.
- Helly R.: I told her I wanted out and she told me I wasn't a person. My own self told me that.
- Mark S.: Yeah, and, and that's horrible, but don't focus on her; what do you want, in here?
- Helly R.: What I want is for her to wake up while the life drains out of her and to know it was me who did it.
- Ricken Hale: [in his book] Remember, they can’t crucify you if your hand is in a fist.
- Harmony Cobel: The surest way to tame a prisoner is to let him believe he's free.
Hide and Seek [1.06]
[edit]- Helly R.: It’s important because it actually is or because you’re saying it is?
Defiant Jazz [1.07]
[edit]- Irving B.: Let's burn this place to the ground.
What's for Dinner? [1.08]
[edit]- Ricken Hale: Your so-called boss may own the clock that taunts you from the wall, but, my friends, the hour is yours.
The We We Are [1.09]
[edit]- Natalie Kalen: But I'm here tonight to tell you that we are on the verge of a revolution. A kind and empathetic revolution that puts the human being at the center of industry. And yes, it's a business revolution too. We need no longer see those ideas as mutually exclusive, because the truth is we can have all of it. Increased productivity, improvements in morale... a happier workplace. A happier world. It's a vision that was first dreamed up by a humble military doctor you may know named Kier Eagan. A man who saw humans in agony and decided we could do better. He may never have seen a Severance chip in his lifetime, but it represents his elegant and gentle philosophy made manifest.
- Devon Scout-Hale: Rebeck smells weird.
- Mark Scout: Rebeck smells weird?
- Devon Scout-Hale: And she was making chewing sounds but she wasn't chewing. Be prepared because you might be sharing a book with her.
- Mark Scout: Right. A book...
- Devon Scout-Hale: The one you forgot to bring even though I reminded you.
- Mark Scout: Right. Yeah. Sorry. How's--our baby?
- Devon Scout-Hale: Uh-- I'm gonna assume you mean that in the "it takes a village" sense, and she's good. I wanna have the life change talk, but I need to do a quick pump. Leakies, right?
Season 2
[edit]Hello, Ms. Cobel [2.01]
[edit]- Lumon Building: [in a video] Under my literal nose unfolded a human drama of danger and intrigue, inspiration and love.
- Irving B.: I want it to be over.
- Dylan G.: Okay. So then after you find the black hallway or...
- Irving B.: I want the pain to be over. If he's gone and I'm gone...
- Dylan G.: Stop saying that.
- Irving B.: ...then somehow, we'll be together.
- Dylan G.: He wouldn't want that.
- Irving B.: How do you know?
- Dylan G.: Because I don't want that. Because I would be sad, and I would be less productive, and I'm really good at what I do here, whatever it is. And you're part of what makes me good at it. So please, do not go.
- Irving B.: Dylan. I'm your favorite perk.
- Dylan G.: Don't bring them into this.
- Seth Milchick: Take a look. These are blueprints for a new renovation, of which I chose not to inform your colleagues. It's called the Outie Family Visitation Suite.
- Dylan G.: Are you saying I could see my family here?
- Seth Milchick: If you take the name of the room at face value, I'd say yes.
- Dylan G.: Holy fuck.
- Seth Milchick: The holiest.
- Mark Wilkins: Why are you a child?
- Miss Huang: Because of when I was born.
Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig [2.02]
[edit]- Harmony Cobel: You don't value me. You fear me.
- Helena Eagan: We fear no one.
Who Is Alive? [2.03]
[edit]- Ricken Hale: But surely beer and juleps cannot fill the void left by love. Indeed only wine can achieve this, but it is famously costly, which is why sadness is among the most recurrent issues facing the poor.
Woe's Hollow [2.04]
[edit]- Irving B.: [to Helena] Helly was never cruel.
- Seth Milchick: Marshmallows are for team players, Dylan. They don't just hand them out.
- Irving B.: She's a fucking mole!
Trojan's Horse [2.05]
[edit]- Helly R.: Did everyone sever their balls in the elevator this morning?
- Mark S.: Hey, do you want me to, like, describe what happened? Like, I feel like you have every right to know.
- Helly R.: No, no, no. I don't want her memory.
- Mark S.: Okay.
- Helly R.: I want my own.
- Burt Goodman: Well, as a matter of fact, I was guided to Lumon's door by Jesus.
- Irving Bailiff: Jesus Christ?
- Burt Goodman: That's the one!
Chikhai Bardo [2.07]
[edit]Sweet Vitriol [2.08]
[edit]The After Hours [2.09]
[edit]Cold Harbor [2.10]
[edit]- Kier Eagan: Mark S., in completing your 25th Macrodata file, you have drawn my grand agendum nearer to fulfilment, thus making you one of the most important people in history. Revel now in the fruit of your labors, and hail your earthbound steward, your very own... floor manager!
- Seth Milchick: [enters the spotlight] Thank you, Kier. And may I say, you're looking very handsome, sir.
- Kier Eagan: Thank you. I'd say the same of you, if not for my favorite core principle.
- Seth Milchick: Probity?
- Kier Eagan: No. Vision.
- Seth Milchick: Well, it's truly special to host a man so illustrious, so sapient, so magnanimous.
- Kier Eagan: My, you're verbose. Good thing you didn't write the first appendix. It would've burst.
- Seth Milchick: It's an honor to receive your barbs, Mr. Eagen. The legacy you've left behind is truly and irrefutably larger than life.
- Kier Eagan: You mean my company?
- Seth Milchick: No. I mean this wax statue that's five inches taller than you actually were.
- Kier Eagan: Thank you for that feedback... Seth.
- Seth Milchick: Thank you, Kier.
Cast
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External links
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- Severance (TV series) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Official website