Severance
This week, Severance had a bleak, horrifying, charming, deeply glorious episode, one stuffed with plenty of solutions however sadly, ones that increase much more questions, as reveals like this have a tendency to do.
In the end, this was a Gemma-focused episode, reasonably than Dichen Lachman displaying up for a cut up second each week in a Mark flashback. The brutal reveal isn’t just that Gemma is being saved prisoner in her Ms. Casey persona, however she is definitely a take a look at topic that seems to be multi-severed. Her authentic persona is undamaged, however she’s not simply cut up into Ms. Casey, she is cut up when going by means of plenty of completely different doorways, every that includes some type of horrible take a look at with a brand new character, Dr. Mauer.
Every persona is trapped on this particular hell, a endless collection of dentist appointments, everlasting Christmas card-writing, continually being in a aircraft apparently about to crash. Mauer falls in love with Gemma, and possibly has already change into the most-hated character this present has ever seen.
Nonetheless, there are a variety of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments that present simply how pervasive Lumon’s attain is within the lives of each Mark and Gemma earlier than any of this ever occurred. Fairly actually from the second they met, it was at a Lumon-run blood financial institution (they made that fairly clear). However previous that, there was a Lumon emblem on Gemma’s consumption type on the fertility clinic. However even previous that, you may need needed to rewind and rewatch to see that Dr. Mauer, Gemma’s future torturer, was a physician at that very same clinic.
This has some heavy implications for your complete trajectory of Mark and Gemma’s relationship and lives. We already know that Lumon helped pretend Gemma’s loss of life, so what else did they do? Have been they the explanation that Gemma by no means obtained pregnant by means of IVF, as certainly they’re not a regular fertility clinic, if that was even an actual one in any respect. Did they promise Gemma a baby or one thing in the event that they went together with their plans? Is that how they first trapped her?
The remainder of that’s simply speculative, however we all know for a indisputable fact that Lumon had a hand in basically each occasion we noticed in Mark and Gemma’s pre-severed lives. We have no idea why precisely, however this complete factor has a a lot wider scope than we may have imagined. I’m certain we’re going to search out out extra as time goes on, however that episode was simply astonishing, as have been the restricted reveals and clues that it gave us.
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