Champion of the Sun

Virtue signalling by wearing pins and ribbons and loudly declaring your place is not safe in some environments. It will place scrutiny on you and everything you touch. Nobody believes the guy who says “fuck my boss and everything he stands for” scratches the boss’s car by accident, even if it is an accident.

SEVERANCE / Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dylan! He’s you!

this whole season has been milchick silently contemplating his place at lumon, particularly in regards to his race, and yet he is still pushing through even after abuse from kier "himself". he is still performing.

and frankly i don't think it's being taken as seriously as it should be by the audience!!!!!!

i get that that is partially because it is absurd and out there that lumon would have a whole marching band and partially because tramell tillman brought so much oomf to it (i still cannot believe that this is one of his first acting gigs - he is such a good actor). and also, it's meant to evoke the first season's dance sequence (but i also don't think that's taken as seriously as it should be by the audience soooo--- ‪¯\_(ツ)_/¯‬)

but like — i felt a similar kind of horror watching the marching band sequence that i did watching get out and us. like. watch this black man in white gloves and a cane who has been consistently put down and othered for his race throughout this entire show, perform at the request of an automaton of the white man who very likely built his company on the backs of former slaves at the end of the civil war, whose company who still effectively employs slave labor and indentured servitude two hundred years in the future.

for milchick, this season began with lumon black face and ended with, effectively, a lumon minstrel show as someone else put it.

When I saw the girl looked just like me

I thought, “Must be lonely loving someone

Tryna find their way out of a maze”

Oh, I know