Spoilers beneath for anybody who hasn’t but watched Severance’s Season 2 finale with an Apple TV+ subscription, so be warned!
It looks like Severance’s long-awaited second season simply arrived, and but we’re already in post-season mode, with so many particulars to take a position about forward of the already confirmed Season 3 (with reported adjustments for the artistic workforce). From Gemma’s response to iMark and iHelly to the wild reveal in regards to the goats’ significance to a mother-flipping marching band, the finale delivered all the products whereas nonetheless leaving loads of storylines unconcluded.
One large instance that matches the invoice is Mark’s present reintegration standing, which was seemingly placed on maintain after his at-work nosebleed that resulted in him going right into a mini-coma. We haven’t seen Reghabi since Episode 7, when she hit the highway after Devon threatened to name Ms. Cobel, and it’s totally unclear what number of extra therapies he would possibly want, or what results the therapies are having on his physique.
Now, I can solely assume I’m not the one Severance fanatic who’s believed that Mark’s coughing matches in Season 2 are a facet impact of the reintegration course of, just like the complications and nausea that we already learn about. However what in the event that they’re fully unrelated? Creator Dan Erickson one way or the other made that query related when requested by iO9 to make clear if the coughing is a consequence of the medical process. In his phrases:
[Pause] Hmm. You would possibly get a special reply from someone else.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, what?!? I imply, clearly if somebody known as up a 911 operator or pizzeria and requested that very same query, they’d get a special reply from no matter Dan Erickson would say. However that is nearly undoubtedly not the context that the Severance creator was talking of.
As a substitute, he appears to be saying that followers would possibly get a special tackle Mark’s coughing in the event that they’d ask, as an example, star Adam Scott about it. Or a number of of the writers. And even Reghabi herself. (Not the actress, however the character, who would in all probability deny that she had something to do together with his respiratory points.)
Dan Erickson clarified his personal perception, however whereas nonetheless seemingly making it clear that his phrase just isn’t essentially bond the place this element is worried.
To me, that may be a facet impact of the reintegration. That’s form of how I view it.
“Form of how I view it” is such a baffling solution to phrase a response about one thing that Erickson possible is aware of a full reply to. As a result of if it is not a facet impact of the reintegration course of, then what are we speaking about?
Is it potential that Mark is affected by another form of illness that nobody is conscious of but, least of all Mark himself? Is there some form of long-gestating facet impact that comes with engaged on the Severed Ground?
That one does not appear as possible if Adam Scott’s character is the one one who’s been coughing, however there may clearly be different signs that we’re not clocking correctly. What if one of many signs is “falling in love together with your Outie’s spouse?” If that is the case, Dylan is boned.
If Lumon’s chips are having some form of moreover detrimental impact on staff’ well being, that is a totally completely different angle for Innies to soak up staging a revolution in opposition to the company. But it surely does not look like the present’s writers would wait till Season 3 to introduce that as a basic thought.
That stated, it wasn’t till the Twilight Zone-inspired episode “The After Hours” the place viewers had been made conscious that Jame Eagan has apparently been impregnating varied ladies, with a few of them going to Lumon’s birthing cabin to get the being pregnant taken care of, so to talk. So if that may be a “new” reveal, I assume it is believable that we’ll discover out subsequent season that Outie Mark has everlasting bronchitis.
Here is hoping it will not be one other three years earlier than we lastly make it again down the elevator to see what sort of pleasant new artwork will probably be on the wall subsequent.