‘Severance’ Season 2: 5 amazing questions we need answered as soon as possible

The separation, the twisted science fiction thriller of Apple, is back. With two low and eight remaining episodes (the end of the season will reach streamer on March 21), expectations are in the clouds that the series can still deliver the products. Until now, he has done it, even if we are still questioning everything.

The first season of the Apple TV Plus drama ended with a blow of a Cliffhanger, which has left the Internet full of everything, from improvised musical dance numbers to goats. (What is the deal with the goats of babies?

During the official press day of the program in December, I spoke with the star of the Adam Scott series, the director and executive producer Ben Stiller, and the creator of the series and Showrunner Dan Erickson about Zoom. Their answers hinted what will come in the rest of season 2.

Spoiler warning: Stop reading if you are not caught in season 1 season. The main spoilers are below.
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Why did the Macrodata refinery team decided to separate?

We know that Mark (Scott) chose compensation because he was crying the loss of his wife, and Helly (Britt Lower) joined his family connection with Lumon, but what about Irving (John Turturro) and Dylan (Zach Cherry)?

We have seen very little of Dylan’s life, but we know that he lives with his three children, and seem to have a decent relationship. Irving is obsessed with the elevator to the trial floor and lives a lustrized life with a dog called radar.

When compensation was released for the first time, the public was wondering what would be needed To cut your own minds If such technology existed. What type of toxic trauma or life situation would motivate such an option?

Each character surely has his own heartbreaking story behind his decision to be cut, and it is almost certain that we will get answers to this question in season 2.

Is Gemma really alive?

One of the greatest revelations of season 1 reached the end of episode 7, challenging jazz, when we learn that Mrs. Casey, Lumon’s Welfare Director, looks exactly like Outie Mark’s wife, Gemma (Dichen Lachman ), whom everyone abroad believes that he died in a car accident.

How Diablos Lumon did it? Was it dead false gemma or a similar appearance? Is Lumon in the practice of human cloning?

The members of the cast discredited that last theory in the mentioned video of YouTube, but it is clear that Mrs. Casey (whose Innie has only been alive for 108 hours) is very different from the other cut workers.

A fans theory suggests that Gemma is in a coma of the car accident and its version of Innie can only wake up occasionally. But she shows no physical indications of a serious accident.

The Gemma/ms. Casey Mystery – and The ideas that has caused – It looks like one of the biggest writing challenges for the program. This mystery will surely be addressed in season 2. According to Scott, it is a plot point that feeds the story of his character this season and causes a struggle between the two Mark beings.

“He feels that he has to help at his departure and take Gemma somehow by the door,” said the actor. “But so where their emotional ties and their emotional interests are? The really interesting innie and the starting brand this season is how aligned their interests are. At what point they will join or move more separately?”

Why is Harmony Cobel so obsessed with Lumon Industries?

As Lumon’s cut floor manager, Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) takes its work extremely seriously. She is like a cult of her devotion to the founder of Lumon, Kier Eagan, and the nine main principles. The basement of his house includes a sanctuary for Kier and personal artifacts of his mother, Charlotte.

Harmony is not seen, as Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman) and Doug Graner. Even so, unlike the two, it maintains a separate personality in the outside world: Mark’s neighbor, “Mrs. Selvig”, which makes atrocious lavender cookies and constantly screw recycling and Mark’s garbage containers.

One of the career themes of the first season of the program is Harmony’s conflict with the Lumon Board about “reintegration”, the controversial practice of merging workers’ personalities again after removing the chip from the brain. The Board insists that the reintegration is impossible, while harmony has first -hand evidence that Petey Kilmer succeeded (before he kill him).

After maintaining Helly’s suicide attempt, the Board shoots Harmony, who responds destroying her basement and collapsing in discouragement in her sanctuary, which we now see has a fan tube and a medical bracelet that reads, “Charlotte Cobel” with a birth date of March 17, 1944.

Harmony and Mrs. Selvig dress in a way that covers the neck, which are never seen. Could harmony be Charlotte, who has scars of a tracheotomy or other neck surgery? Do you have a personal investment in reintegration?

We could continue, but you understand the point. The questions surrounding Harmony Cobel abound, and it is almost certain that we will learn much more from their background history in season 2.

Why does Irving paint that hall and elevator?

When we see Outie Irving, we learn that you love to listen to Motorhead and repeatedly paint the elevator to the Lumon test floor. Dominated by thick black, these paintings fill Irving’s house and explain why Innie Irving’s nails are full of dark shit.

But what is the connection of Innie Irving with that desolate hall and elevator? Have you been on the test floor or have you lost someone? We never see it in that area of ​​the elevator in Lumon. In fact, the only person we see using that elevator is Mrs. Casey.

A fan theory He states that Innie Irving has visited the trial floor and has been “restored” by Lumon several times, which could explain why he says he has been there for three years, but his badge indicates nine.

John Turturro de Irving has “discredited” personally that theory in a Promotional video of separation distribution. Perhaps the trauma of Innie Irving of the trial floor has leaked in its outer personality. Or Outie Irving is trying to send a message through your unconscious to Innie Irving?

How much of a sociopath is Helena Eagan, anyway?

As his story in season 1 made it clear, Helly didn’t want to have anything to do with Lumon. In fact, she threatened the self -harm to escape. Things did not come out in their own way. In one of the most brutal scenes of season 1, Outie Helly sends a video message to Innie Helly, saying: “I am a person. You are not. I make the decisions.”

During the end of the season, we discovered that Outie Helly is Helena Eagan, the daughter of the current CEO of Lumon Industries, Jame Eagan, and has suffered compensation as a public relations campaign to ensure that the practice of separation remains legal. During our Zoom conversation with Erickson, he made fun that Outie Helly has drunk the Lumon Kool-Aid.

“The Innies feel closer to the true and authentic version of the self for each of the characters, in part, because they wake up as a blank board,” Erickson said. “In a way, she (Helly) represents a more true version of that person who probably out.”

Instead of focusing solely on things within Lumon, which is how season 1 was developed for the most part, it seems that Severance season 2 will expand its reach and explore the houses and personal lives of MDR outputs.

As for the Innies, they will deal with a collective identity crisis.

“What divided are also a question,” Stiller said. “How much does this barrier to really separate your emotions, your feelings and your desires? When you see an Innie that is much more innocent than the outie, the idea for me is sometimes your child’s self, your inner child” .

Taking into account that our MDR heroes operate with a childhood mentality, their trip can feel much more precarious. According to Erickson, everything will become darker and scary.

Now that the Innies have seen a piece of the outside world, what kind of repercussions are on the horizon? “There is no victory without recoil and painless,” Erickson joked.

“We wanted to see what would happen to the characters once they had pushed the bear,” he added. “What happens when the bear returns?”