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The finale of Severance Season 2 delves into the complex consequences of the "severance" procedure, exploring the blurred lines between inner and outer selves, the fight for agency, and the profound emotional toll of fragmented identities, culminating in a dramatic choice that redefines loyalties.
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and as I'm duly swamped I shall leave
you to read it in [Music]
solitude welcome to Miz Mojo and today
we're unpacking the wild ride that was
the finale of season 2 of sance please
make the necessary preparations for key
plot information to be revealed
imminently sorry spoilers ahead now
I'm
sorry the background whether you've been
watching each episode on Thursday night
with your clipboard out sidebar why is
Apple TV plus telling us at airs on
Fridays have we not been patient enough
the work is mysterious and important and
we deal with the uncertainty it brings
us in the way that Kier would have
wanted or if you're just trying to
figure out what the hell the show is
about so you can talk about it with your
weird coworker on Monday we've got you
covered we are the weird coworker this
is inappropriate workplace commentary
and I'm self-reporting you you're
reporting me to yourself okay a quick
recap for context Severance follows Mark
Scout a recently widowed man who works
at the mysterious Lumen Corporation as a
severed employee each category of
numbers presents in such an order as to
elicit an emotional response in the
refiner meaning when he walks into work
each morning his Consciousness flips a
switch and he becomes any Mark who has
no memory of his outside self and vice
versa we know that much right all right
let's fast forward doesn't make sense
till you see it and it takes a while to
see so Mark works in the macro dat
refinement Department known as MDR and
up until right now we had absolutely no
idea what that meant or what his job
even was but we'll get there mark Works
in MDR with Irving B Dylan G and heli R
the latter of whom by the end of season
1 becomes romantically entangled with [Music]
[Music]
Mark in case we don't come back Ooh La
La but uh not really because we also
learned that hel AR's Audi is Helena
Egan the daughter of the CEO of lumen
they'll all be Care's children Love
Triangle Square again we'll get there
over the course of season 1 we learned
what is arguably the most shocking and
important piece of information of all
new I'll be looking at the
moon markx Audi's allegedly deceased
wife Gemma is alive at lumen and has
been working on the severed floor with
her husband but they have no memory of
one another you're both un
hurt wait we
are I'm glad I was scared I'm
sorry I forgive you in the season 1
finale our four MDR Legends managed to
override their Severance chips and come
too while on the outside as a way to
communicate the woes of any life to the world
at this point mark realizes what we as
the audience have already known to be
true and that's a wrap on season 1 Q the
three-year Hiatus can I just I'm
sorry I just have so much to do today on
you go season two all right that wasn't
so bad now we can't explain this ending
without explaining
theing oh beginning sure that too season
2 kicks off with Mark returning to work
frantically searching for Gemma whom he
knows as Miss Casey his three friends
have been fired and replaced but Mark
pleads to the Lumen board to bring them
back and they oblige they made quite a
splash they sure did Water Tower and I
thank k for them we come to learn that
the file he's currently completing Cold
Harbor is of the utmost importance to
the company and the world apparently so
Lumen wants Mark happy once the core for
is reunited they share their stories
from the outside with one another but
with a notable exception hel withholds
that she's an Egan instead telling a
gardener
yeah a night
Garder I think so maybe he has a
different job during the
day surely this does not have dubious
implications on the outside Mark decides
he's willing to go to any land necessary
to bring Jemma back he reunites with
alleged former Lumen surgeon rabi she
stalks him and agrees to let her
reintegrate him which would fuse his in
and outy self into one where were you [Music]
born I'm not
sure what month is it you mean what
quarter reintegration you mean the thing
that killed my very good friend pety
at what what during a calamitous orbo or
outdoor Retreat and team building
occurrence Irving clocks hel is being
Helena gasp and threatens to drown her
unless Mr melchi brings her back she's
not H she's an Egan turn her back Mr
milch turn her back God damn it stop doing
doing
yes he does but immediately kills Irving
in retribution rest in peace to a real
one a moment of silence just
remember hang in there but before he
bites the dust he gives Dylan a clue to
a map he hid on the severed floor a map
that leads to the same mysterious
hallway we seen Miss Casey disappear
into in season 1 oh and uh heli and
Markham shared vessels but it was
actually Helena which is all kinds of
yucky don't worry real heli and Mark
have their own vessel sharing experience
in what is likely the most talked about
episode of the Season chai Bardo we see
both Gemma and Mark's backstory as well
as witness Gemma living on the testing
floor of lumen could I please get a
break just for a little while but it's
weeks I was just here the testing floor
exists beneath the severed floor where
we see Gemma enter an array of rooms
that are labeled with the names of
Mark's previous MDR files see what's
happening don't worry that's what we're
here for each time Gemma enters a room a
different severed self is activated what
hurt all
Town she's forced to complete mundane
tasks or endure painful experiences
without her Audi Gemma having any
recollection of what took place behind
the door we learned that Cold Harbor is
the final room she has yet to experience Cold
Cold
Harbor so what
happens once I've been in all the rooms
yada yada yada Dylan's wife cheats on
him with his innie Bert and Irving meet
as Audi but can't be together former
floor manager Miss goell invented
Severance all right we should probably
back up a little
mine my
designs circuit blueprint base code
overtime contingency Glasco block all of
it but we have too much to get to this
train does not stop nope not even that
one in the penultimate episode coobel
unites with Mark to help him rescue
Gemma as we presume her Vendetta against
Lumen for stealing her invention has
finally come to a head she explains to
him that once the Cold Harbor file is
complete Gemma will be dead she's alive [Music]
the finale now that we've addressed the
broad or should we say macro Strokes of
the story let's finally get into the
season finale shall we the episode picks
up right where the previous had left off
we see any Mark in the birthing cabin
with his sister Devon and coobel the
cabin has the ability to activate Mark
Severance chip as affluent Lumen
adjacent women utilize the procedure to
avoid experiencing the Pains of child
birth yeah crazy in an EP scene Mark has
a conversation with himself through a
camcorder but his Audi is unsuccessful
at convincing his innie that he's
trustworthy enough to assist him in
rescuing Jemma she's the person I'll
lose if I do what you say cuz you know
reintegrate assuming that's even real
any Mark fears that once he's helped his
Audi he's as good as dead and he's not
totally wrong coell steps in to tell has
any the details of his work in MDR
wife the MDR numbers as many had
inferred the numbers that Mark refines
are actually gemma's tempers or emotions
and each file completed equals one new
in for Gemma again this tracks with what
we've learned thus far but now Mark must
decide if he can believe this
information or not as he returns to work
reintegration is your only chance do you
love your brother
Mark yes well then you tell him that the
next thing I see it better be the
severed floor or I swear he will never
see his wife again back at the office
heli has a bizarre encounter with her
father Jame who essentially tells her he
loves her more than he loves Helena I do
I used to see care in
her but he left her as she grew um okay
we don't fully see the repercussions of
this conversation so we can only assume
season 3 will further explore this
Dynamic Mark comes back to Lumen still
unsure of how to approach the end of
Cold Harbor just a quick moment of
appreciation for the exalted victory of
Cold Harbor painting we want that hung
up in our office wait never mind taking
that back immediately Mark and heli
exchange information and in a
heartbreaking moment heli convinces Mark
to sacrifice their budding relationship
to save Gemma and support his Audi at
you he tearfully finishes Cold Harbor
and is rewarded with a massive marching
we're so sorry we know we're supposed to
explain the finale but we need to just
watch milch body roll for a second maybe
now hel manages to trap milch in the
bathroom with the help of Dylan Dylan
returns to MDR though having requested
to resign in the episode prior after
having been rejected by his own wife
ouch his Audi writes him a sweet letter
expressing that he wants to be more like
the man his in self has become and gives
villain the choice to stay or go
bolstering his confidence I hope someday
she sees in
me what she sees in you in the midst of
the diversion Mark uses Irving's map to
locate the testing floor elevator but
just behind an opposing door Lumen grunt
Mr Drummond is about to force Lauren
from Aman's nurtural to sacrifice one of
her goats ail this
Beast will be in tuned with a cherished
woman whose Spirit it must guide to K's
task it is we had been introduced to the
goats in season 1 and they still remain
a bit of a mystery but during this scene
we learn that there's a connection
between the testing floor and the
purpose of the goats Drummond implies
that a chip will be implanted into a
meal which we can infer is gemas and
that he will somehow retain her
get as many as the Fonda calls however
this is interrupted by Mark's attempt to
break into the testing floor elevator
and in an unexpected fight scene
Drummond beats the Daylights out of him okay
Lauren emerges whales on him and
threatens to shoot Drummond Mark instead
convinces her to let him use Drummond to
guide him to Gemma and Lauren obliges
and thanks him for saving Emil Emil
thanks you oh we needed that we would
have killed for that sweet little guy
too Mark makes his way down but arrives
as his Audi and accidentally shoots
Drummond in the process he find finds
his way to Gemma in the Cold Harbor room
who is being tasked with disassembling
the crib we see Mark attempt to build in
shikai Bardo you may be wondering what
is being tested here and why is this the
final room based on everything we've
seen Cold Harbor is the true test of the
entire multi- sance process the crib
represents her most painful experience
of losing her child and I'll be seeing
you is a musical Motif that signifies
[Music]
not to mention her outfit is identical
to that of what she was wearing the
night she was kidnapped by Lumen if
these vestages don't trigger Gemma what
me Mark recovers Gemma much to the
dismay of Jame and the creepo Dr Mau
don't speak to that man he's here to hurt
hurt
you and if you come with me right
now we can get it back
back
no in four scenes of quick succession we
see Mark and Gemma in all different
dynamics of their inie and outy selves
at first Mark recognizes Gemma but she
has no idea who he is and trusts him
nonetheless then after two seasons of
waiting we witness Mark and Gemma as
their Audi selves reuniting once and for
[Music]
run oh come [Music]
[Music]
on once they make it up the elevator
they're both Ines again which is sad but
objectively kind of hilarious and also
we missed Miss Casey desperately what's
um in the final moments of the episode
inie Mark sends Gemma out to the hallway
turning her into her Audi self but right
before he escapes with her hel calls out
for him while Gemma pleads Mark come on
door Mark he must make the impossible
choice between the life he's lived and
the life he may never get to have but
alas he chooses heli and the two run off
together into the hallway like the
circles that you
find in the wind Mills of your
mind where they go we suppose only time
will tell sadly love may not transcend
Severance after all before we continue
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notifications this ending further
investigated the Deep disparities that
exist between the inie and OU selves as
both characters develop parallel to and
in contrast with one another they give
us half a life and think we won't fight
for it the lack of agency that the enies
experience has consistently manifested
itself in the form of multiple major
rebellions and yet somehow they still go
completely unheard Mark having to
potentially sacrifice himself and all of
his memories for the man who selfishly
brought him into existence in the first
place was ultimately too much to ask
though we can only imagine the hell our
team will be put through in the next
season we can't help but root for the
underdog enies to salvage their
existences Against All Odds see you at the
equator see at the
Equator so what do you think is next for
heli and Mark and the MDR team at large
did Gemma successfully Escape or will
she be captured once more more
importantly will we ever see Mr milch
dance again let us know all of your
thoughts in the comments thank you for that
that [Applause]
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