Christmas got here early this yr, with Apple TV gifting followers a sneak peak on the first eight minutes of Severance Season 2, set to premiere on the 2025 TV Schedule in January. The whole lot of this preview takes place on the severed flooring of Lumon, however with noticeable variations. Season 2 hopefully will make clear the numerous cliffhangers followers had been left with after the Season 1 finale… though this shock drop appears to be leaving extra questions than solutions. One key second specifically retains nagging my thoughts and it has to do with Ms. Casey.
Why Does The Wellness Room Look Like That?
The primary eight minutes of Season 2 aren’t missing in rigidity. Our first picture is of Mark waking up at work on the severed flooring. Nevertheless, his innie wastes no time taking off searching for one factor that turns into clear in a short time.
He’s trying to find Ms. Casey, the wellness counselor, who was revealed to be his outie’s spouse Gemma in direction of the tip of Season 1. Mark S. is frantically trying to find this girl as a result of his innie learns on the finish of Season 1 that Gemma died in a automotive crash… or did she?
When Mark S. reaches the wellness room on this sneak peak, we hope to seek out solutions there simply as a lot as he’s. Sadly, the area has been altered so there may be nothing within the ready room moreover the 2 inexperienced couches. All of the art work is lacking from the partitions, and all different decor can be absent. As for the wellness rooms the place Ms. Casey would conduct her periods… properly, they don’t exist anymore. In truth, the area the place the doorways had been has been crammed in with drywall.
The remainder of the preview comes with loads extra stunning particulars. First off, Mark’s staff has been changed with three new Macro Knowledge Refiners making their debut. We additionally discover out 5 months has handed since Mark S., Helly R., Irving B., and Dylan G. flipped the Additional time Protocol change, permitting their Innies to blow the whistle concerning the ongoings inside Lumon’s severed flooring. The outcome has been what Milchick calls “severance reform.”
However I’m nonetheless caught on the wellness workplace although. If the remainder of Mark S.’s staff was changed, why wasn’t Ms. Casey? If you’re going by way of a means of reform, it actually doesn’t make sense to do away with the one characteristic that was helpful to your workers’ psychological well-being. It wouldn’t make sense to do away with that area, a lot much less simply empty the room whereas nonetheless leaving it eerily recognizable. It’s virtually like they’re making an attempt to ship a message to Mark.
This leads me to marvel about Ms. Casey’s actual position on the severed flooring, whether or not she was conscious of it or not. Clearly, she was not simply there to function a therapist of kinds. Not solely that, however what has occurred to her the final 5 months?
What Actually Occurred to Ms. Casey/Gemma?
Like myself, many different followers have speculated for some time that Lumon is experimenting with Ms. Casey. Some Severance theories even say that Gemma actually did die, and Ms. Casey is a clone of Mark’s spouse. This concept is rooted in the truth that Ms. Casey by no means leaves Lumon. As an alternative of going house after her work, she returns to the ominous “testing flooring.”
The thriller surrounding Ms. Casey and Gemma is one we hope is answered in Season 2. There isn’t any doubt in my thoughts that Mrs. Selvig/Concord Cobel (Patricia Arquette) is concerned. She was the one to ship him to Ms. Casey within the first place, all the time watching fastidiously by way of cameras, whereas additionally inserting herself into his outtie’s life as his neighbor. I fear for Gemma’s destiny, although, because the Season 2 trailer options the Boyhood actress’ voice saying “Mark, there will be no honeymoon ending for you.”
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Within the new clip, Milchick chalks up Cobel’s job termination and involvement in Mark’s private life to an erotic obsession. The brand new supervisor additionally tells Mark that when information broke of the darkish occasions occurring to Lumon’s severed staff, the remainder of his MDR staff refused to return to work, displaying Mark S. a newspaper that includes the whistleblower information as proof. In fact, half the contents of the article are blacked out, which means one very unsurprising conclusion: Lumon remains to be mendacity and hiding issues. Shocker!
Evidently, I don’t imagine a phrase Milchick says within the first eight minutes of the long-awaited new season. I wouldn’t be shocked if the entire whistleblower celebration and severance reform is only a ruse, one other story to place the severance staff comfortable and throw them off pursuing the reality.
If the Season 2 trailer is any indication, it gained’t make a lot of a distinction. Nevertheless, the one strategy to discover out for sure will likely be to stream the brand new season January seventeenth with an Apple TV+ subscription.