Tramell did such a great job with this character. He nailed that overly nice, but guy who will backstab you their first opportunity, coworker we’ve all had

Milcheck is one of the most interesting villains/grey-morality characters I've ever seen, and I can't wait to find out more about him. Thank you for spotlighting these interviews and keeping the Severance hype alive. I can't wait for season 2, and yet, I must :(

What I find most unnerving about Milchick is that he might NOT be a “true believer.” He could be a fully committed company man, always giving 100% to protect the best interest of Lumon, without believing whatsoever that Lumon is accomplishing anything worth doing. It’s just his job, so he does it. That’s an unnervingly familiar type of person.

I read all the Silo books in order to deal with the absence of the show. With Severance there’s only the Lexington Letter and the guidebook. I am so happy to see more content!

Just want to say thanks for everything but particularly for your craftsmanship. The love you put in to each video comes through from research down to the brilliant quality you give your narration!

So glad I can count on you to keep talking about Severance!

I found your channel today and binged all your Severance videos. And now you drop a new treat! I feel blessed Great work as always

this guy is such a great actor...i really hope to see more of him. this show scrips was amazing ,but the actors...man, the actors were on another level. it really elevated this show, the creators knew what they were doing for this cast.

Woooooaaaaaahh!! I haven't even watched the video yet but I'm so stoked to see a new release from your channel!! I'm binging the show again in anticipation for season 2! I have so many questions and so many theories!

Love your Severance videos! FWIW the editor who kills the Topeka Star story in the Lexington Letter is named Jim MIlchick, and he seems to kill it in a very characteristic Milchick way. The story I made up in my head is that Seth Milchick comes from a very devoted Lumon family.

Huge smile on my face when I saw the notification for this vid

Man I can’t wait to watch your videos after season 2 comes out

Been watching your vids since the beginning wish you and your channel the best of luck, wish you would do more videos on severance just cant get enough.

My wife’s theory on Milchick is that he has a wider boundary for his “innie” - his innie can go anywhere in the city.

I almost see Cobel and Milchick as mirror images of each other or flip sides of the same coin, in a way. Cobel is not charming or likeable, but it sometimes seems like she could be at least a little bit sympathetic (or at least pitiable). Milchick, by contrast, can definitely be charming and likeable (even if his energy is a little off-kilter), but I don't think he's ever sympathetic, even though what he's done is not quite as overtly antagonistic to the innies as what Cobel has done. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it seems like Cobel might be on board with Lumon because she's damaged or brainwashed, while Milchick seems like he's a company man who has genuinely bought in (which is much more disturbing, IMO).

I need season 2 in my veins

Yay to a new videoooo!! 🎉

Happy New Year, Nautilus! Good to hear from you. Need that Severence theory fix.

Ive watched all these breakdowns on severance by now, some even more than once, and truly youve done a fantastic job of these. Cant wait to get through season 2 with ya!

I found your channel when I wanted to learn more about severance. I cant get enough of your voice! My daughter likes matpat videos and i gotta say i love this audible velvet! great choice of shows too! Thank you for creating this content and keep up the the good work ♡ :) new follower alert

Found the show 4 days ago, finished it 2 days ago, watched this series over the remaining days. Awesome as

There's a theory that innies who get far enough up the corporate chain get rewarded by not being switched off and effectively taking over their outie's lives - this is why Cobel is so strange outside as she is functionally a child with regards to lived experience (though this doesn't explain the shrine, or why she was allowed to just leave after being fired). Milchick is another true beliver who is now his newer self all the time.

A part 2? Oh, noes! However shall we cope? Seriously, as long as it's your voice talking about Severance, I'll listen to you read off a known Lumen employee roster.

Yes! More videos like this please!

Hi and thanks for good work!

The Nautilus lives!!

I’ve just found your channel after the Apple News came out, and it is amazing! I binged all your Severance stuff like an unsupervised child with a tablet. Such an excellent synthesis of all the Reddit theory crafting along with fantastic analysis. Not to mention you’re hilarious and I love your editing style. And you sound like Jeffrey Wright to boot. Love your work and can’t wait to check your content along with Season 2. Thanks for making these!

Loved it, as always. You should talk about Murderer at the end of the world, or the OA there's a lot to talk about and I think you're the perfect guy to do that! Keep it up

Of course I enjoyed the video. When this popped up and I saw it was new, I grabbed the headset and pressed play. Milchick is probably my favorite character, because he's so enigmatic and well-acted. That comparison between him and Cobel can probably be stretched to a whole different video. He portrays that idealist doing what he feels must because he believes so strongly in the higher cause very well. I've seen similar awkward smiles in business executives talking out of both sides of their mouths as they tell the work force how valuable they are even while planning massive layoffs behind the scenes. It's a kind of aloofness that is hard to pin down.

some vids take time youll never get back, others take you back and squeeze more juice from times past. thx

Happy to see a new video! Keep up the good work.

You killed it as usual, brother! Congrats on the success!

Thank you so much for keeping us going as we wait for season 2.

Awesome! THANK YOU.

I first found your channel when I started watching Severance and then I recently just watched Silo and watched your videos. I find your content fascinating and it helps me find a new way to enjoy my shows. I find your takes so interesting. I am not sure if you are trained or studied as a writer or something but keep up your content it is awesome!!

I used to be robotic, cold and cruel like Milchik. In real life. It was a result of a long period of trauma so I can provide some psychological analysis from my own personal experience as someone who was like that. For me, it developed as a defense mechanism - I couldn't deal with my emotions, so I shut them down. Due to not receiving empathy and help with dealing with the negative emotions I felt (I wasn't emotionless 100% of the time, that's impossible), i both didn't care, and when there was something that made me feel bad, if I thought i could reject, I would be cruel, e.g say toxic things that hurt others. I was usually in a position of powerlessness so I didn't do that. But to those who didn't hurt me I didn't do anything. There's much more to what I went through and how it affected me but that's what's relevant here IMO. So Milchik displayed this kind of emotional reactions and behavior. With him, I suspect he was brainwashed. In my case, I was trying to resist aggression and abuse, mostly. Brainwashing is also a form of trauma, but if done slowly and weakly enough, the change will become gradual and there won't be much resistance - like a frog in a pot that doesn't jump out, realizing it's being cooked, because the temperature of the water is slowly and gradually increased. I suspect that's what happened to him. So he has that belief engraved in him by the brainwashing Lumen did, which i hypotheisze is from an early age, similarly to Cobell's mom, supposedly. I, at some point, broke. I couldn't be emotionless and not needing of empathy. It was when someone made me feel cared about. I suspect that a similar thing will happen to Milchik, when he'll have no choice but to face the lack of choice he had. He could react in various ways - become depressed, angry, vengeful, self-harming and more. From a character writing perspective, I think he'll just become depressed to get out of the way, because, I assume, he wouldn't be written to have something "personal" in the form of a relationship and external love, since we already have that in the form of Cobell. Like his actor said, he's a gatekeeper. So once the gate opens, which it has been, then you need to stop the guard from preventing you to get through. Cobell tried to do that, and same for Milchik himself, but since he has motivation to keep it closed - and tried to - I think the best way to get him to stop trying to stop the gang is to get him to become depressed. I don't think he'd join them, because then he'd have to overcome what he went through, and a literary definition I saw for heroes are those who overcome their difficulties and shortcomings in stories. If he were to do that, he'd be a hero, but we already have those - the gang. So I think he was written to play this role from preventing them to go through the gate, as a difficulty in their way to overcome. I'd be surprised if he were to join them. Most I can see him potentially do is give them information but I highly doubt it - he'd feel to defeated at this point, and we'd have as a contrasting highlight the resolve of the main characters we've already seen.

Another great video Nautilus!

Thanks for answering my questions about Milcheck. Here's a like and comment for the algorithm. Can't wait for s2 to come out.

Really like your analysis video on Severance, for me, they are the best ones out there. You're very good to create a chilled atmosphere in your videos, and your great voice is one part of this. I just saw that you also cover Silo and for now I'm not really interested in this series, but because you cover it, I think i'll give it a try and trust you on that.

Awesome video! Getting some insight into what goes into the portrayal of Milchick is fascinating. Thanks for digging into those interviews for us!

Loved the video as always!Thanks for a Severance video! Patiently waiting for Season two!!!

Ayy just in time for Season 2 to start up production again

The impression I get is that to be severed implies that there’s a person to go back to. So, maybe Tramell is right in that Milchick isn’t severed- he’s fully programmed as whatever Lumen needs him to be?

Woo hoo! Let's go!

Great video!!! Can’t want for season two… Might wanna double check your title though 😉

This is so good

Idk about severed, but I always thought the way he reacted to getting attacked and bitten felt childish, like his pout, shock, almost betrayal and an "I'll tell on you!" knowing full well he wouldn't (or maybe he did? it doesn't seem like Dylan got any consequences for it but maybe he did).

For me, the peak catalyst of this show driving the plot really forward was not the red book ( red book was just the foreshadow/ precursor/ a quasi chekov’s gun) but milchick’s bad decision to activate the innies outside. He could have confronted Dylan the next day. And that’s why mildchick was perfect in my opinion. He was a devoted and focused side villian?- gray character who still made flaws despite the vibrant demeanor.

The hand that was holding and then let go of the on/off switch to the overtime contingency protocol when Milchick was at Dylan’s outties house, was black.

i wish they would of got him to replace Majors as Kang, instead of that dude from FTWD

Milchick freaking rules!!! really curious if he's also the Milchick from the Lexington letters. Love ur videos man!!!

Yay!!!!

i love ur voice

I just finished a second viewing of Season 1 and suddenly noticed something by the last few episodes - a lot of numbers that are mentioned reduce to numerology number 8 -the infinity number. Cobel's house number page 197 of the book, Burt Goodman's address. I'll bet that there are more.

What to and How to think of their work. Yup sounds like my work for sure except without all the existential dread involved

this is my type of man lol

When is it coming back?

Best ass on the show!

Well, damn! This video ended too fast! That thumbnail you used.....he looks so...... artificial. Great choice!

I could not have clicked on this video faster