The look forward to Severance Season 2 is almost over, and never a second too quickly. Followers’ heads are in peril of exploding from myriad previous and new theories which have amassed within the practically three-year wait since Season 1’s chilling finale. Such hypothesis ranges from intriguingly real looking to surreally far-flung, and I’m desirous to lastly be taught which concepts had advantage and which have been devoid. Fortunately, the present’s forged got here collectively to shed each gentle and darkness on sure fan theories.
To advertise the already lauded-by-critics Season 2 being accessible to stream quickly for followers with Apple TV+ subscriptions, stars John Turturro, Patricia Arquette, Zach Cherry, Adam Scott, and Britt Decrease got quite a lot of viewer-based theories for a video put collectively by EW. A number of have been kind of put to mattress, such because the lurking concept that the numbers being tracked by the MDR crew are fully meaningless. (Arquette referred to as that one out as being B.S.)
Actually, although, I used to be extra intrigued by two of the theories that the present’s stars did not rapidly shoot down as being illogical or mistaken. The primary, as a result of it matches squarely with one thing I already imagine, and the second, as a result of I need to spend extra time interested by what all of it means. Let’s step by means of the elevator doorways.
THEORY: Irv’s Testing Door Work Are Linked To Hidden Previous With Burt
From the very begin of their common interactions, Turturro’s tight-knit Irving and Christopher Walken’s O&D charmer Burt gave the impression to be constructing on a pre-existing kinship, if not one thing extra heartfelt. That concept was maybe strengthened by Innie Burt being compelled into retirement as soon as Irving’s visits grew to become extra frequent and disruptive.
Individually, we’ve got the largely confirmed concept that Outie Irving’s work are of the Testing Ground hallway and elevator doorways which are situated under the workplaces the place severed workers work. These concepts match up through the idea that each Irving and Burt have been despatched to the Testing Ground previously to “reset” them, because it have been, by severing every’s extra amorous emotions for the opposite.
In response to the idea that connects Irving’s work to a doubtlessly erased relationship with Burt, John Turturro tiptoed round confirming that element by saying:
I feel your principle and my theories, we diverge.
Clearly that reply sparks intrigue merely for providing credence to the idea within the first place, however Turturro’s particular technique of settlement provides extra threading to get all tangled up in. In that he refers to his personal “theories,” which means that even he is not 100% within the loop on what all of it means.
Or maybe Turturro is indicating that the concept strains up with what his personal theories about Irving’s story have been, earlier than he obtained wind of no matter the true reply is that creator Dan Erickson and EP Ben Stiller concocted. However that does not even essentially imply the idea is improper, simply that the Emmy-winning actor excels at caginess. I am nonetheless feeling good about this one.
THEORY: Colours Imply Every thing In Severance
Okay, so there are technically a bunch of theories targeted on Severance‘s use of colours, however not something so overarchingly simplistic as “good” characters put on white and “evil” characters put on black. The concept goes past the belief that Erickson & Co. are hyper-intentional with set design and costuming selections, and digs into how the Egan household and Lumon itself makes use of colours to dictate the Innies’ world.
Patricia Arquette was the one to shed a skinny line of fluorescent gentle on this matter by kind of agreeing that followers must be listening to shade schemes, significantly inside Lumon’s partitions. As she put it:
I provides you with one factor, that there was positively conversations about totally different shade schemes in numerous divisions of Lumon and what colours higher administration is allowed to put on in comparison with others. So your shade principle, am I an autumn? Who is aware of?
No matter what colours Concord Cobel (or her fake persona Mrs. Selvig) has on, I’d discover it very arduous to contemplate the character herself as heat and earthy as one would possibly anticipate from an “Autumn.” I suppose Selvig may very well be thought of in such a approach, given her motherly vibes with Devon and Ricken’s child, however on condition that was all an artifice, it does not rely.
In any case, I am going spend extra time forward of Season 2 doing down obsessive rabbit holes targeted on the blue-and-green stability on the Severed Ground, amongst different thought trains.
However first, I’ve to offer Zach Cherry some credit score for leaning into one of the splendidly outlandish theories in regards to the conversation-driving goats comprising Lumon’s Board, even when his jokey response was kneecapped by Turturro.
- ZACH CHERRY: I am not going to debunk this. It is doable the goats may very well be the Board.
- JOHN TURTURRO: I am debunking it.
It is unclear when or if the above theories will both be confirmed true or false, however the one technique to begin arriving at a solution is to look at Season 2 when it debuts on Apple TV+ on Friday, January 17.