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were playing with how would you watch them? If they were in a smaller room, they'd never leave their desks, but in a big space, it's fun to watch what they do. All the Lumon sets have practical ceilings that can be flown up and down remotely, because the techno-crane couldn't get far enough up above the set otherwise. There's no lateral ceiling movement anywhere. The center section of the MDR ceiling was twenty by thirty feet, with hundreds of programmable lights. Cobel's Office Cobel (Patricia Arquette) is the senior Lumon executive on the severed floor, the one person there who is not severed. Just as the green in MDR is like grass, the blue in Cobel's office is like the sky. Cobel's office gets a little artificial sunlight, because she is conscious of what sunlight is, and that she's not getting it. She has a triptych painting of a stormy sky behind her desk. I loved that each severed character would come in, not know what the sky is, look at her, and the painting, and be wowed. And she is a storm. The Break Room At Lumon, the break room is where disobedient employees are broken. Helly is forced to read a formal apology here over and over. Dan wrote that it was projected on a wall. I wanted to see the yellow words projected on her somehow, like it was being burned into her face, embedded into her brain. I came up with this little desk where Helly sits across from her tormentor, Milchick (Tramell Tillman). He can see her, but the way the lighting was positioned, she'd never be able to see him, just A. SEVERED FLOOR REFLECTED CEILING PLAN. B. COBEL'S OFFICE. PRODUCTION STILL. A B