Severance is a present crafted so meticulously that actually any given second is able to spawning limitless threads of on-line theorizing, and uncommon is the element that goes ignored by speculative viewers. With Severance Season 2 set to lastly return after greater than two years to spark a plethora of revamped predictions and insights all through the primary months of the 2025 TV schedule, I rewatched Season 1 with a extra reflective thoughts, and sure parts of Ms. Cobel’s storyline rang out to me in new methods.
Anybody who someway hasn’t watched Season 1 but ought to tread flippantly by all the pieces that is beneath, however it appears unlikely that description applies to many who’re nonetheless studying, so let’s swipe our all-black safety playing cards and dig into what I feel Cobel’s true motivations are on the subject of her Mrs. Selvig persona getting so shut with Mark. (I sadly could not tie this into our goat-related questions and theories.)
I Assume Concord’s Mom Charlotte Was Severed, And Maybe Died
Potential Clues
- The Lumen respiration tube in Concord’s shrine
- Cobel calling her. mom “athiest,” whereas Selvig known as her mom “Catholic”
One of many go-to theories for Patricia Arquette’s character is that she herself was beforehand severed, and that Mrs. Selvig is definitely the character of her mom Charlotte, which Concord is ready to swap to as her personal “innie,” so to talk. However as attention-grabbing and potential as that sounds, it would not actually clarify how something she’d be taught as Mrs. Selvig can be helpful if she retained none of it, and nor does it clarify how Selvig is ready to make connections within the Season 1 finale.
As a substitute, I feel that Charlotte spent most of her life as a Kier Egan devotee, as mirrored in Concord’s personal devotion and the historic context of her shrine room, after which was severed for one purpose or one other. I am not so positive her non secular nature would make that severance a selection, so maybe the respiration tube signifies that Charlotte fell ailing in some unspecified time in the future, and the chip was implanted inside her head with Lumen’s future objectives for it in thoughts earlier than she was put into an induced coma, or presumably cryogenically frozen.
Charlotte’s perceived character cut up was even hinted at throughout two moments within the sequence premiere, when Mrs. Cobel tells Mark S. that her mom was an atheist, whereas Mrs. Selvig tells Outie Mark that her mom was Catholic. If true, it will suggest Charlotte was severed with out well being points being a trigger, however it’s potential Concord wasn’t being so literal along with her feedback, and solely meant to invoke the concept of a duality.
I Assume Lumen’s Chip Know-how Introduced Gemma Out Of A Coma, Or Again From The Lifeless
Potential Clues
- Ms. Casey not having an outie
- Ms. Casey solely being woke up for brief intermittent durations
- She’s the one one we all know from the Testing Flooring, implying her chip is not totally developed but
Severance viewers nonetheless do not actually know any hardcore particulars about Gemma and the wreck that supposedly killed her, and clearly details about Ms. Casey are additionally all however absent. We do not even know if there actually was a wreck; although Mark visits a selected web site to mourn Gemma, we by no means truly noticed what went on. As such, it is unclear if her physique and face have been broken past no matter Mark was in a position to acknowledge when he recognized her.
However let’s assume Gemma both died or suffered extreme coma-inducing accidents within the wreck. I am inclined to suppose that Lumen put to make use of a unique sort of chip than those being inserted in severed residents’ brains. One that’s maybe in a position to do extra than simply minimize off recollections, however probably carry somebody again from the useless. I. can simply see why they’d want a complete flooring for researching and growing such groundbreaking tech.
Even when the theoretical upgraded chip is not so highly effective as to lift the useless, it could be sufficient to someway carry a comatose affected person again to waking life. Which may clarify why Ms. Casey is simply allowed to be woke up and on the Severed Flooring for minimal quantities of time, with the day she supervised Helly R. being a giant take a look at. And will additionally clarify why Ms. Casey would not have an “outie” to show into, so to talk.
I Assume Concord Is Personally Invested In Mark’s Mission As A Method To Someway Get Her Mom Again
Combining each of the above sub-theories collectively creates the macro-idea that Ms. Cobel is personally invested in Mark’s staff ending their undertaking with haste, because it’s doubtless tied to no matter is occurring with Ms. Casey, and will thus have ramifications on her personal life, or at the very least that of Charlotte’s.
At instances, Ms. Cobel looks as if she’s going in opposition to Lumen protocols out of pure disobedience, however she’s not that sort of individual, and her Eagan devotion additionally makes it troublesome to imagine she’s in opposition to Lumen entire fabric. As a substitute, I feel the way in which she secretly superior on Outie Mark’s life as Mrs. Selvig was movtivated by her private curiosity in seeing what she may be taught from his life with Gemma that might support in her efforts with Mark S. and Ms. Casey. If she was simply thinking about making her employers blissful, she in all probability would not take that huge of an additional step.
Or perhaps Lumen was someway answerable for Charlotte’s loss of life, which may clarify why Concord would have her respiration tube as a memento as an alternative of {a photograph} or something vaguely conventional, and why she’s maintaining her personal beliefs in thoughts over the corporate’s.
Regardless of the hyper-specifics could also be, I am unable to assist however now go into Season 2 considering that Concord Cobel has far bigger ulterior motives for maintaining Group MDR in line, even when others at Lumen do not see eye to eye along with her techniques. Hopefully I will not must go the complete season with out my concept being confirmed proper or unsuitable.
Severance Season 2 will probably be avaiable to stream with an Apple TV+ subscription on Friday, January 17.