“How outdated had been you whenever you knew you liked doorways?” Mr. Saliba (Adrian Martinez) asks Dylan.
“5,” Dylan responds confidently.
“Should you might be any type of door, what would you be?”
“Pocket.”
“Attention-grabbing. Inform me extra.”
“Effectively you’re doing all of your door factor after which whenever you’re not wanted you’ll be able to simply…”
“Simply tuck your self away,” Saliba says with a smile. Then, reaching again for the toughest query in his door arsenal, he poses to Dylan: “Flat end or eggshell?”
“Semi-gloss,” Dylan says, triumphant.
“That’s scorching,” Mr. Saliba says, leaning again, virtually in bliss upon witnessing such a pure doorsman.
The interplay between Dylan and Mr. Saliba serves as slightly comedic launch valve amid all the stress of this glorious second episode. In spite of everything, within the scene instantly previous Dylan’s interview, a dour and conflicted Mark Scout (Adam Scott) appears to be like out his window upon a snowy panorama, debating whether or not he ought to return to work at Lumon. Within the scene instantly after it, Mark lashes out at his sister Devon (Jen Tullock) for not absolutely comprehending his ache following his spouse’s loss of life.
The interplay additionally serves as slightly in-joke for the creation of Severance itself. Sequence creator Dan Erickson simply occurred to be working at a door manufacturing unit when he conceived of the concept for the present and finally offered it to Stiller’s Purple Hour Productions. Within the season 2 episode 2 episode of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott, Erickson tells Stiller and Scott that the Dylan and Saliba interview was “verbatim the precise interview that I truly had on the door manufacturing unit, word-for-word.”
“Actually?” Scott asks Erickson.
“No,” he says.
After all, like many nice comedic moments on Severance, Dylan’s interview at GREAT DOORS finally offers option to one thing extra sinister. After Mr. Saliba asks Dylan about his earlier work expertise at Lumon (“They make their doorways in home. It’s fucking hubris”), Dylan reveals that he was a severed worker and the vibe instantly shifts, slamming the door (*bows*) on any likelihood of Dylan getting employed proper then and there.
On one hand, Mr. Saliba’s mistrust of severed workers does make some sense. Although Dylan’s resume claims he has a number of years of labor expertise at Lumon Industries, he functionally doesn’t. It was Dylan’s innie who labored at Lumon, not him. Dylan has no entry by any means to the expertise, data, and expertise gained from his time at Macrodata Refinement – so full is the severance process in bifurcating a mind’s consciousness in two. Alternatively, nevertheless, it’s clear that Mr. Saliba’s souring on Dylan comes from a spot of prejudice. He’s not turning Dylan down resulting from a an absence of compatibility, he’s doing it as a result of severed persons are icky.
