Severance Season 2, episode 7 lastly gave us an perception into what’s occurring to Gemma (Dichen Lachman) on the ominous “testing flooring” — and as you in all probability already guessed, none of it is good.
We’ve already broken down “Chikhai Bardo” in detail, with theories on every part from what these totally different doorways imply (and the way they hook up with the MDR information) via to what Lumon is definitely attempting to perform by placing Gemma via all this.
Different followers have made comparable speculations because the episode aired, with Reddit person u/MysteryRawDog arguing that Lumon’s predominant goal seems to be fully severing an individual from any damaging life experiences.
When Mashable’s Belen Edwards spoke to Severance creator Dan Erickson about episode 7, his feedback appear to assist this concept.
“I’ll say what’s attention-grabbing right here is that she’s going via these painful or disagreeable experiences after which she’s leaving, and the query that is being requested all through the episode by Dr. Mauer (Robby Benson) is, to what diploma is something leaking via?” Erickson mentioned. “Is she strolling out of that room with any emotional echo of what she was going via in that room? To this point evidently she’s not, so that is the throughline that I feel is occurring with what is going on on in these rooms.”
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One other massive query, nonetheless, considerations the ultimate door. What about “Cold Harbor“, the room that Gemma has but to go in, however which shares a reputation with the file Mark (Adam Scott) is engaged on?
Effectively, following on from the concept every room represents a unique type of struggling, one commenter on Reddit speculated that “Chilly Harbor” may be associated to loss of life.
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“I feel Chilly Harbor would be the loss of life of one other, and the miscarriage scene was foreshadowing,” they wrote.
It is sensible, does not it? The identify “Chilly Harbor” already evokes the idea of loss of life, and it is also some of the intense experiences of struggling an individual can expertise. If Lumon is attempting to sever emotions of grief, it appears possible that this could be one of many last negatives life occasions that they work a check topic like Gemma as much as. Mark and Gemma even have their very own private connections to grief — Gemma via the miscarriage, and Mark via the miscarriage and the lack of Gemma. Would this make them the perfect check topics?
Severance Season 2 is now streaming on Apple TV+, with a new episode every Friday.
