'Severance': With Two Episodes to Go, Look at the Biggest Fan Theories
Just like ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Lost’ in their times or ‘Servant’ nowadays, AppleTV+ newest hit ‘Severance’ every week makes its viewers create new fan theories about what the heck is going on in the series.
With two episodes left, the mysteries are only just starting to unravel. But what revelations await? Here's a list of the most popular Reddit fan theories.
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Produced and directed in part by Ben Stiller, ‘Severance ’ follows a team of office workers at a sinister biotech company called ‘Lumon Industries’, who have all undergone a procedure known as 'severance'. This operation splits people's consciousnesses in two: one for work and one for their personal lives.
Some Reddit users think that the process that the ‘Severance’ characters are going through isn't a security job, but some kind of mental health therapy or even social experiment. In the beginning of the season it was mentioned that ‘Lumon’ founder Kier Eagan's ultimate goal was to tame the "four" tempers: woe, malice, frolic, and dread. What if severed employees are processing their own negative emotions, categorized into each of said tempers? Adam Scott's Mark decided to be severed to escape the pain of losing his wife. So he’s probably dealing with the woe and dread.
Other ‘Severance’ fans believe that Mark was the one who died in a car crash. In the most recent episode, titled 'Defiant Jazz', we found out that Mark's wife is looks exactly like Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman), the severed floor’s wellness counselor. The purgatory theory can explain it.
The most romantic fan theory says that Irving (John Turturro) and Burt (Christopher Walken) are a couple outside of Lumon. Because love is such a powerful emotion, it can defy the severance process.
There is also a theory that Harmony (Patricia Arquette) may have lost a child. It seems that she worships Kier Eagan so much that she has a shrine dedicated to him in her home with a hospital bracelet that bears the name 'Charlotte Cobel'. What if ‘Lumon’, being a biotech company, has promised to bring her child back somehow? It will explain why Harmony is so devoted to ‘Lumen’.
Helly R (Brittney Lower) might be someone important to the company because during her first day we can hear Milchick saying to her in private: "When we heard you were coming here It was like a miracle. It's amazing, what you're doing." It can explain why Helly’s “outie” didn’t let her leave the company.
And the last theory is the wildest one: the baby goats are actually clones… with human children's consciousnesses.