16 Burning Questions We Already Have About Severance Season 2

Severance is a present that pays uncommon consideration to element. Followers have come to know that no selection made—be it a seemingly offhand line of dialogue, manufacturing design tweak, or one thing you don’t even discover at first—is by probability. It’s all very deliberate and a part of the quirky, sinister puzzle the Apple TV+ collection is fastidiously assembling.

Whereas season one left us with a whole lot of questions, significantly after that wild cliffhanger (and the following years-long wait to see what occurred subsequent), season two has wasted no time in ramping up all of Severance’s mysteries, and introducing some new ones too. 

With that in thoughts, listed below are probably the most burning questions we now have about Severance season two to date. They’re not even all of the questions we now have, simply the most burning ones. A few of these will certainly be answered quickly, perhaps even on this week’s fourth episode. A few of them will doubtless hang-out us till the season finale… and maybe past.

1. The place is Ms. Casey?

Thus far, it’s the enigma driving season two. On the finish of season one, she was ushered down an ominously darkish hallway to an much more ominous elevator after Ms. Cobel commanded her to be despatched to “the testing ground.” Lumon’s former wellness director hasn’t been seen since. Her absence is worrisome for a lot of causes: we don’t know what occurs on the testing ground, and even what her standing was earlier than she was despatched there, aside from the truth that the longest she’s ever been “awake” is one single eight-hour stretch. But in addition, as innie Mark realized within the season one finale (and all of the innies now know, too), she has one other id past being Ms. Casey: she’s outtie Mark’s presumed useless spouse, Gemma.

2. How did Gemma develop into Ms. Casey—and why?

Outtie Mark believes Gemma died in a automotive accident, with no purpose he ought to suspect in any other case. His sister Devon and husband Ricken, who don’t work for Lumon, additionally suppose Gemma has died. Why would Lumon stage her demise (together with burning a physique after the crash), solely to spirit her away to the severed ground? Why is Lumon so thinking about, and seemingly invested in, the connection between Mark and Gemma? 

3. What’s Chilly Harbor?

It’s the title of the challenge Lumon may be very thinking about having Mark end, seemingly with out him truly realizing it. He’s nearly there. And it’s an enormous deal. However what’s it, and why is it so essential?

4. What’s Ms. Cobel’s plan?

She was fired from Lumon on the finish of season one, and her cowl was blown when outtie Mark, who knew her as his next-door neighbor “Ms. Selvig,” realized her true id. When Helena Eagan tries to rent her again, ostensibly with a promotion that may preserve her away from the severed ground, Ms. Cobel turns her down and heads off on a street journey—earlier than altering her thoughts and returning to Kier.

“I intend to complete the work that I began,” Ms. Cobel says to Helena when she’s making a case for Lumon to place her again accountable for the severed ground. Clearly she has some kind of grand plan that ties not simply into her work on the severed ground at Lumon, however can be the driving purpose behind why she saved such uncomfortably shut tabs on Mark’s outtie. It’s not a sexual curiosity in each variations of Mark, as Lumon’s clearly false rationalization would have it… however what’s she making an attempt to do?

5. What’s in Salt Neck?

We see a street signal marking 238 miles to “Salt Neck” on the level the place Ms. Cobel decides to show again. What’s in Salt Neck? Does it have one thing to do together with her deceased mom, whose respiratory tube she retains tucked into the Kier Eagan shrine in her basement?

6. The place is Kier, PE?

Severance‘s dystopian setting—the perpetually freezing firm city of Kier, PE—is as nebulous as Lumon itself. “PE” shouldn’t be a state, and “Remedium Hominibus” (translated: “A treatment, for mankind”) shouldn’t be a slogan on any American license plate. However the present’s actuality does overlap with our personal, with mentions of actual cities and states in addition to the in-world use of songs by Metallica, the Stone Roses, and others.

7. Who’s on “the board”?

By no means seen or heard, except faint static by way of that direct-access Charlie’s Angels speaker counts, Lumon’s omnipotent board makes all the selections and its phrase is closing. Presumably it’s solely made up of members of the Eagan household, however is there anybody else? What do their conferences seem like? And are all of them linked into that speaker always?

8. What’s the cope with Natalie?

Her death-ray smile and panicky eyes telegraph feelings her mouth won’t ever converse, for 90% of what Natalie says is by way of her function as a spokesperson for that mysterious Lumon board. We’ve seen extra of Natalie in season two to date by way of her interactions with Mr. Milchick, and—in episode three—her go to to Ricken and Devon’s home to sweet-talk Ricken into re-writing his self-help book for innie use. However we nonetheless do not know what her precise persona is, or if she even has a soul that may be indifferent from Lumon’s maintain over her.

9. Why does Lumon need Ricken to rewrite his e book for innies? 

Idea: the corporate doesn’t have any intention of giving a model of Ricken’s e book to the innies, regardless of pretending that it now cares about innie well-being. That is only a scheme to feed Ricken’s ego and get him on Lumon’s aspect, and perhaps Devon too, since they’re so concerned in Mark’s life and have been additionally keen on Gemma. (We all know Lumon thinks Devon is “uppity,” so perhaps they’re making an attempt to maintain her completely satisfied?)

10. Why is Miss Huang a child?

When Mark S. returns to Lumon within the season premiere, he meets a brand new member of the administration staff: Miss Huang. Whereas the actor who performs her is eighteen, the character seems to be about 12 or 13. Contemplating her function—she’s Mr. Milchick’s second-in-command—she’s presumably not severed worker. However why would Lumon rent a tween to fill that place? Shouldn’t she be in class, perhaps the identical college the place she was beforehand a crossing guard?

11. Why did Helly lie about her “Extra time Contingency” expertise?

We all know who she actually is. Why did she maintain again on telling the remainder of her innie cohorts? And why wouldn’t she give you a much less suspicious cowl story than one involving a “evening gardener”? Is Helly hiding an excellent greater lie? Does she even personal a “Save the Gorillas” t-shirt?

12. Who’s outtie Irv speaking to on pay telephones?

In season two, we see Irv depart his house underneath cowl of evening and go to a telephone sales space. “My innie bought the message,” he tells somebody’s voice mail. However we don’t know who or why; presumably, it’s constructing on the detective work we knew innie Irv was doing in season one, together with compiling an inventory of names and addresses of different severed staff. (One among whom is Burt, who we see watching Irv from afar he’s making a kind of telephone calls.)

13. What’s up with the Exports Corridor?

Felicia, Burt’s former co-worker, catches a glimpse of one among Irv’s drawings—a recreating of the near-monochromatic work his outtie does again and again. She identifies it because the Exports Corridor, and explains that’s the place Optics and Design used to ship its shipments, although now “they ship a man.” We additionally know that’s the identical hallway the place Ms. Casey was despatched on the finish of season one. What’s down there? Why does outtie Irv keep in mind it so vividly, and innie Irv have nightmares about it? Why is every little thing about it so haunting and ominous?

14. How will Mark’s reintegration go?

It appears most unlikely that Mark will endure the identical destiny as Petey in season one—he’s the principle character and Severance isn’t about to kill him off. However how superior has Reghabi’s approach actually gotten for the reason that Petey fiasco? And the way will Severance handle the mixing of his two minds if she’s profitable?

15. Are the Macrodata Refiners truly doing something? 

In season one, it appeared like MDR was being tasked with assembly precise targets—quotas for finishing their nebulous number-grouping work earlier than the quarter ended, with rewards handed out to the highest performers. (Two phrases: waffle get together. Come to consider it, we nonetheless have a whole lot of questions on that waffle get together!) However they don’t actually know what the info is used for, and neither does the viewers. Is there a sensible software, or is all of it a sham to cover no matter Lumon’s true objective is—one other thriller Severance is unquestionably going to take its candy time fixing?

16. The goats. Significantly. What the hell?

Even after episode three took us contained in the goat division, which we now know is known as “Mammalians Nurturable,” we nonetheless do not know why Lumon has a goat division. In reality, after assembly the individuals who work there, we now have infinitely extra questions in regards to the goats.

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