Before heading to the ominous Cold Harbor, Jo and Rob do a check-in on the opening credits (10:08), play a guessing game of “Who’s the secret Eagan?” (13:10), and run through each character’s arc in the episode (19:19). Plus, the best zinger of the episode (1:00:19) and payoffs or lack thereof so far (1:05:13). Email us! prestigetv@spotify.com Subscribe to the Ringer TV YouTube channel here for full episodes of ‘The Prestige TV Podcast’ and so much more! Hosts: Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Kai Grady Additional Production Support: Justin Sayles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the opening credits foreshadowing in 'Severance'?
Don't skip ahead like you usually do. Pay attention. Okay. Take notes. The Severance finale is next week.
You may have heard.
I've also heard it's 76 minutes long 76 minutes long correct episode 10 76 minutes long so we will be breaking down that that next week and that finale episode is going to drop Thursday night so like right after the finale airs this podcast we usually do this on a Friday morning this podcast will be up Thursday night next week.
But we have a bonus episode next week because we just want to like squeeze every last drop of milk out of that goat, I guess. I hated it, too. So Wednesday at noon Pacific. Rob and I are doing like a live Q&A mailbaggy thing on YouTube. So we'll have links up in our socials and stuff like that. But you can find us on Ringer TV, the YouTube channel.
We will be... You can email us your questions, Rob. Where can they reach us for this podcast?
Always at pineapplebobbing at gmail.com. And of course, at prestigetv at spotify.com. If you're, I guess, less fun or you just don't feel like bobbing today.
So... So you can send your theories, your questions, your queries there.
Yes, please do. We're going to need them. We're going to take questions live from the chat, of course, but we got to get some fodder to get started. So please send us in theories, ideas. I think just kind of general questions about the world of the show. It doesn't have to be guessing at the end game. Let's have fun with the goats among us.
That sounds great. So, yeah. So live Q&A on Wednesday at noon Pacific. Thursday night drop for the finale pod. And then we'll have a follow-up pod for you guys at the beginning of the next week where we can engage with all of your emails, your reactions to the finale, all that sort of stuff. And we might have something more to do, but we will reveal that as it comes.
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Chapter 2: Who could be the secret Eagan in 'Severance'?
What about, like, citrus juicer?
I mean, you can... That one I think you have to have, for one. Essential to your kitchen. Also juices multiple kinds of citrus, for the record.
That's the loophole I thought you were going to find.
I think it's allowed.
No.
Okay.
Cut your apples. Or eat the apple. You don't need a corer.
Do you know that I used to – I worked in a bakery and – I didn't know this. Yeah, just briefly when I was a teenager. And we had this thing that I loved that was almost like a pencil sharpener where you basically like stab the apple onto it and you like crank it and it peels the apple. And it was just for like mass apple peeling for like various like strudels and pies and stuff like that. Okay.
Pretty sick stuff, but no egg cutter. You mentioned the cold, frosty environs that we find all of our Egans and otherwise in. One last note on sort of timing of next week. Our listener Zach wrote in to point out that the season two finale is airing on March 21st, which is the spring equinox, a.k.a. the day in mythology that Persephone emerges from Hades and begins spring.
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Chapter 3: How does the character dynamics evolve in Episode 9?
And dramatically say Cold Harbor and then not tell them what Cold Harbor is.
Nope.
In a way that no human would ever do that. Only a TV character keeping us in suspense about what Cold Harbor is would do. That I felt like I felt the sort of the gears behind the storytelling, you know.
Yes.
Sort of groaning and creaking a little bit.
Even the delivery. Just cold. Okay.
harbor it's like this is not human interaction i know harmony cobell is on her own wavelength on her own planet in a lot of senses but this is just not how any of this part of the story would go i think overall the mark and harmony stuff continues to mystify me as far as why that is being executed in the way it is and we can get into it as we get into that part of the story but i have no answers as to why
almost any of that is happening other than it needs to happen to get the story where it needs to go. And that's not really satisfactory to me.
Thank you so much for sharing with us your incredible Harmony Cabal impression. And that reminds me that I should tell listeners, we here at The Ringer at Spotify are currently unable to put clips into our podcast for very boring reasons that we don't need to get into. But
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Chapter 4: What emotional moments stood out in this episode?
I mean, despite all of the Mark and Harmony and Devin plans, Hallie's the person who's actually closest to getting to the testing floor to the extent that when she goes down there, she will still be Hallie, which we don't really know.
She won't be, though. That's the one. That's the thing. OK, here's here's a theory I saw on Reddit this morning. Credit to the Redditors. They're the best. That really intrigued me. And again, we're going to we're going to save most of our what's going to happen the finale, even though I just started talking about it for Q&A.
But if Helly and Mark both get on that testing floor elevator and go down.
Yes.
It will be their outies. on the testing floor yeah it will be chinese diner zufu energy down on the testing floor and that's very exciting to me they're not not exciting they're not going to make it out of that elevator those two in a confined space i put nothing past them i i think that could be really fun okay last but not least proliferation of baby cures That's one way to put it.
That brings me now to a segment I'm calling Secret Egan. A game I would like to play with you, Rob Mahoney.
I'm so glad that there's just an endless variety of shows we can apply secret baby logic to.
You know, Secret Baby for sure, but also this is reminding me of like in the... Were you a Battlestar Galactica person?
Oh, of course. So say we all, Jo.
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Chapter 5: What are the speculations for the season finale?
Yes.
And then I felt a little uneasy in my heart and my mind and my soul and my stomach when I Googled whether or not the following actors were biracial. But I did do that. So let's talk about this.
Miss Wong.
Possible.
Possible.
Possible.
Possible.
uh dylan no okay and then here's my fave personally on the pod on the official pod this week which was like not the most uh i i i think i got the least out of this particular official pod um not out of entertainment but like i think they're just holding all their cards very close to you have to right here before the finale so i understand why
But their interview this week was Sydney Cole Alexander, who plays Natalie. And she had this really interesting part where she was talking about early in the season, the two encounters between Natalie and Milchick, when Milchick is trying to have this sort of like... hey, have you, a person of color, had this same experience as I, a person of color? Can we find fellowship and common cause here?
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Chapter 6: How is the show's production affecting character arcs?
And unfortunately, perhaps Harmony has, you know, mothered a secret or acclaimed Egan. Okay, so that has been the stomach-churning game of Secret Egan. If you have... nominations for this bleak bleak game uh you can email us at pineapple bobbing at gmail.com or prestige tv at spotify yeah who else could it be like like mark w secret egan alia alia shawkat secret egan yeah yeah yeah um sure um
Random. Was he an Italian guy? What was the other guy? Okay, thank you.
Secret Egan.
That was a hatecraft Italy, I apologize. It's all right. You know, James has been abroad, you know, like he is a busy man. He's a man about town.
He's a continental traveler.
Again, I think he's capable of anything.
That's true. Okay. Let's go sort of person by person as we go through this episode because everyone is kind of siloed into their own story by design. We are meant to say, wow, Milchick's plan of basically decimating the MDR camaraderie has certainly worked.
It certainly has.
And everyone's in their own little side plot. But let's start not with a member of the MDR team. Let's start with Milchick.
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