Episode 8 of Severance Season 2 takes us away from the Lumon manufacturing facility for a reasonably grim journey down reminiscence lane, with Concord Cobel (Patricia Arquette) heading again to her childhood residence to retrieve one thing vital.
The home itself is chilly, barren, and unwelcoming, but it surely does comprise a number of props and particulars that assist shed extra mild on why Cobel is the best way she is.
From Lumon plaques to old-fashioned annuals, we have rounded up a number of the issues you will have missed.
What clues are there in Concord Cobel’s childhood residence?
The very first thing we see as Concord rushes upstairs is a Lumon plaque on the wall. This reads:
Mashable Prime Tales
Quarterly Striver
4th quarter
12 months of Imaginative and prescientYouth Apprentice Matron
Celestine “Sissy” Cobel
“Sissy” Cobel is presumably Concord’s aged relative — probably an aunt? — who’s lower than blissful about her sudden arrival. The broader implication is that Concord has very a lot grown up in a Lumon household. The corporate has all the time been part of her life, as a result of it has been a part of the lives of the era above her.
That is emphasised much more within the subsequent room Concord searches, which accommodates a shrine to Kier Eagan just like the one we noticed her sitting in entrance of in Season 1. On the prime of the shrine are 4 statue heads representing the 4 tempers: woe, frolic, dread, and malice. There’s additionally a information chopping titled “Jame Eagan Assumes Function as Lumon CEO,” a poster titled “Work-Life Stability,” and playing cards displaying “Lumon’s Core Rules.” Behind the picture of Kier, in the meantime, is a card that reads “YOU MUST BE CUT TO HEAL.” All of this stuff act as a reminder that Lumon is each bit as a lot of a spiritual cult as it’s a firm.
Lastly, when Concord goes exterior to the shop, she finds a ebook titled Annual Reminiscences. The emblem on the prime is “ME,” which apparently stands for the “Myrtle Eagan College for Ladies.” Inside are photographs of a teenage Concord Cobel with a hockey group, a photograph of her as class valedictorian, and at last an image of her above the heading “Jame Eagan Wintertide Fellowship.”
Are any of those small particulars going to be the important thing to unlocking Severance‘s deeper mysteries? Most likely not. However they go some option to displaying simply how deep Lumon’s roots go, and the way a lot of an affect the corporate has had on native communities and the households inside them. Episode 8 offers a transparent perception into why Concord is the best way she is; she’s basically been groomed by Lumon from a really younger age, with the corporate dominating all the things from her schooling and dealing life to her faith and residential life.
Severance Season 2 is now streaming on Apple TV+, with a new episode every Friday.
