After two hit seasons, numerous the mysteries of Dan Erickson’s weird anti-corporate sci-fi collection “Severance” stay unsolved. Central amongst them: What precisely does Lumon do? Lumon, as followers of the present can let you know, is a threatening company entity that has developed a system of severing its workers from their outdoors lives whereas they’re within the workplace. Lumon workers volunteer to have a pc chip implanted of their brains that erase all their reminiscences of the skin world after they step into the workplace. Whereas at work, they solely have reminiscences of their job. After they go house, the chip restores their outdoors reminiscences, however masks every thing they encountered at work. The “Innies” and the “Outies” don’t have any private reminiscences they share.
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The premise looks as if a drama about work/life steadiness, however Lumon is clearly as much as one thing way more insidious. The principle characters, led by Mark (Adam Scott), work within the “macrodata refinement” division, and their job appears to ivolve looking for quantity clusters on a spreadsheet that make them really feel concern (?). Mark and his co-worker Helly (Britt Decrease) additionally uncover that Lumon has been elevating goats for unknown causes. Most horribly, as revealed within the present’s second season, Lumon secretly kidnapped “Outie” Mark’s spouse Gemma (Dichen Lachman), faked her loss of life, and has been performing torturous reminiscence experiments on her of their sub-sub-basement. Naturally, the present’s second season considerations Gemma’s rescue.
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Nonetheless, there are a number of mysteries on “Severance” that stay unsolved. What’s Lumon doing? Simply how remoted is Kier (aka the town the place Lumon’s headquarters relies)? Why do all of the characters have employed doppelgängers? Why all of the secrets and techniques?
In an interview with Buzzfeed, Erickson revealed that he has hidden a number of Easter eggs all through the present, offering viewers all of the clues they should reply these questions themselves. It appears that evidently the options are there. We simply have to look onerous sufficient.
The solutions have been there all alongside on Severance
Talking to Buzzfeed, Erickson implied that he has certainly thought out all the world of “Severance.” He is aware of why issues function the best way they do and has the solutions to each riddle. He isn’t merely making issues up as he goes alongside; there’s a roadmap.
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As of this writing, a 3rd season of “Severance” is formally within the works. It comes as little shock; given how massively in style the primary two seasons have been, it was just about assured the story would proceed. Which means Erickson will have the ability to drop an increasing number of clues over time. But, it appears that evidently we’re already set. Between the primary two seasons and the playful, actually-purchasable e-book “The You You Are,” written by the character Ricken (Michael Chernus), it seems we’ve every thing we want. As Erickson put it:
“I feel [people can figure it out]. It is not like we laid-in proof of it, however we have tried to kind of lay within the build-up to it. And so thematically, you understand, there are particulars that I feel you will look again on when it is all completed and say, ‘Oh, that is why they did that.'”
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That is, after all, maddeningly obscure, however true “Severance” followers would not need the thriller to be spoiled. It is at the very least comforting to know that Erickson and govt producer Ben Stiller have a plan in thoughts and are simply being coy with the data.
The second season of “Severance” ended with “Innie” Mark rescuing “Outie” Mark’s spouse earlier than electing to remain inside Lumon’s workplace constructing as to stay along with his inside-only would-be girlfriend Helly. What’s going to occur to them? Will Innie Mark keep inside indefinitely? The third season will, naturally, shed some gentle. It would additionally, little question, introduce all-new mysteries.
