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Deity
Spoiler All I wanna be is an innie :Yeah...kinda what a meant by "real-time" with the pacing. Well done indeed. Lotsa tension.
I did not give it much thought at the time but think you are on to something about the child-like folks. Like the black dude who found the baby was acting a bit silly saying " I found the baby" over and over....like seeking attention/recognition for his deed. And the woman sitting next to Mark was loopy. Even Rickon they way he was beating himself up over his reading.
I think the "firing" of Cobel was more a temporary punishment. She seems too connected to Lumon for them to just dispense with her so completely. Her interest in Mark is still an unanswered question for me. Ofc, she could just be inserting herself in the lives of her outties, but she seems to take particular interest in Mark for some reason.
I def think the show is a satire of the workplace/corporate environment
Cobel/Selvig has been testing to see if the severance is complete all the way through. I don't think her house was
next to Mark's by accident.
Spoiler :
Trying little tricks like "my mother was an atheist" inside Lumon, and "my mother was a Catholic" outside with Mark.
Her apparent lapses of memory about when to put the garbage out.
The scented candle used in the wellness session with Mark and Ms Casey was another test. In this case it was not
only the sight and sound of the two people to each other, but a test of the (almost trite) "primitive" nature of the
olfactory sense.