Severance Season 2 Makes Lumon Even Extra Horrifying With One Forged Addition







This text accommodates spoilers for “Severance” season 2 episode 1, “Hi there, Ms. Cobel.”

Going into the mind-bending “Severance” season 2, the present’s first season had already pushed dwelling that Lumon Industries is as much as no good. The surreal, dystopian workplace surroundings and the persona severance course of that primarily traps the “innie” staff there eternally whereas their “outies” get to take pleasure in a toil-free life are only the start. All the things from Mr. Milchick’s (Tramell Tillman) eerily comforting smile that does not fairly attain his eyes to the stick-and-carrot therapy of the severed staff, the place rewards vary from totally underwhelming to the horrifying absurdity of the Waffle Celebration, signifies that there is way more occurring than easy high-confidentiality workplace work.

The season 2 premiere, titled “Hi there, Ms. Cobel,” reveals that Lumon has a lot extra horrors in retailer. With Milchick now seemingly promoted to Ms. Cobel’s (Patricia Arquette) previous place of managing the severed flooring, Mark S. (Adam Scott), Helly R. (Britt Decrease), Dylan G. (Zach Cherry), and Irving B. (John Turturro) make an unwelcome return to the “Severance” workplace – and uncover that their new supervisor, Miss Huang (Sarah Bock), appears far, far too younger to be working in a prime secret mission.

Whereas Bock herself was born in 2006, Huang is clearly meant to be far youthful. Going by the character’s faculty uniform-coded outfit and Mark instantly noting that she’s a baby, it might seem that Lumon is now dabbling in youngster labor.

Miss Huang’s presence has terrifying implications for Severance

The revelation {that a} new authority determine on the severed flooring is an eerily calm youngster leaves each severed worker appropriately freaked out, and it would not precisely assist that it seems Miss Huang — identical to Mr. Milchick — is not severed herself. Through the introductory ball recreation, she reveals that it is her first day on the job, and that her earlier gig was as a crossing guard. This appears to suggest that Lumon recruited her immediately from a faculty surroundings.

So, what does an unsevered youngster do in a prestigious supervisor place at what, for all intents and functions, appears to be Lumon’s single most necessary division? What’s extra, is she alone, or are there different kids working for Lumon as properly, for the reason that episode additionally reveals that the corporate operates in over 200 places? Presumably, “Severance” will reply these mysteries in some unspecified time in the future, however for now, this looks like the type of factor that might trigger much more outcry than the severance course of itself ought to the general public discover out.

In “Severance” season 1, we uncover that Lumon Industries has aspirations for bringing the titular course of to a large, probably international scale, for unclear causes. The revelation in “Hi there, Ms. Cobel” that the corporate would not solely goal the general public, however really enlists a baby to oversee its key mission appears to be establishing a horrifying revelation later down the road. Mix this with all the pieces else it is advisable to bear in mind about “Severance” and Lumon earlier than totally diving into season 2, and plainly the experience the present has in retailer will probably be wilder than ever.



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