“Severance” opens many passages into Lumon Industries’ cultish mythology, many of which begin with weird, sad stories. But there’s reason to suspect that some of them, including this lurch off-topic by the Severed floor’s department manager, Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman), are a misdirect — if not total bull.
Predictably, the answer is that no one on the Macrodata Refinement team has heard of . . . whatever it is he’s talking about, which he pronounces as glockSHOObin. Milchick launches into a fable of “ancient times” when the king of Sweden would disguise himself in an old gray robe and walk among his people to get a sense of their grievances. Kier Eagan himself was known to do so in his ether factories, Milchick says with delight.
