# Severance Season 2 \[OPEN SPOILERS\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, apple\ **Created:** [January 14, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952 "2025-01-14T09:50:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/241 "2025-03-08T08:52:54Z")
I agree it is a bit abrupt. But apart from MaxTheVool’s observation, we also have Kobel’s continued insistence that reintigration is possible, which the Board clearly wants to not acknowledge. And there are a handful of cases in the first season where she seems to know more then that Board does about the procedure. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/242 "2025-03-08T15:50:19Z")
While I personally see her having actually created the chip as fitting fine, albeit not telegraphed, the reveal is not what I thought was made the ep great. The depth they’ve brought to what was initially a cartoon villain character is. Simultaneously pathetic and badass. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/243 "2025-03-08T22:06:12Z")
By the way, if you like Britt Lower, the actress who plays Helly, check out [Circus Person](https://www.circusperson.com), a short film that she wrote, directed and stars in. It is a bit artsy, but I found it clever, funny and moving. (Note that, while it is not in any way sleazy–quite the opposite, really–it does contain a certain amount of nudity, so consider it potentially NSFW.) ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/244 "2025-03-09T11:39:59Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Very _Lost_-and-not-in-a-good-way. > [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I didn’t love this episode. Why do you bring nothing but woe into the thread? ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/245 "2025-03-09T11:49:19Z")
This week’s winner of the most Severance-y dialogue award: “What have you done with my things?” “Sold. To the poor.” ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/246 "2025-03-11T05:23:46Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > but did we really need to watch Cobel brush her teeth? To maybe help us understand what she wanted to get rid of and reveal? She’s brushing her teeth, could’ve gone to cafe and did that, but she does that while looking at (baiting) Hampton. ---
**Author:** ![Schubert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Schubert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schubert)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/247 "2025-03-11T19:05:49Z")
If I may… I was dragged kicking and screaming into Severance by my wife and our niece. Now, I must confess, I am hooked. So, upon hearing that, according to Adam Scott, the Season 2 finale ending “will blow your mind,” I posit: Cobel having documented she is the original developer of the severing procedure, storms Lumon’s corporate HQ. Against all manner of security, she gains entry to the ominous office door of the Lumon CEO and bursts in, screaming, “You lying con! You fooled me! You fooled the world. You knew all along this was my idea, my work! And you were just going to let me twist in Kier’s wind?! You owe me answers! I demand answers! Now!” At which time the oversized leather chair of the CEO (heretofore facing away from Cobel), turns to reveal Mark Scout, who whispers, “And you shall have them.” (Cut to black. Scene.) Thereby setting the table for the Season 3 plot line of the “middies.” Those caught between the “innies” and the “outies.” Meh. I may be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/248 "2025-03-14T03:20:11Z")
Good episode tonight, but I can’t help but feel they’ve been padding the episode count a bit this season. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/249 "2025-03-14T03:53:53Z")
Also, people on TV seem to always like watching old public domain cartoons on TV… ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/250 "2025-03-14T14:03:19Z")
More quality character development. … Milchik hitting his limit “devour feculence” was great. Irving’s near desperate “I’m ready.” The interplay between Devon and Mark. Mark’s response to “how are you?” So many more individual character items! But plot wise? Seems to be more getting all the pieces in place for … something that few of us are expecting I suspect? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/251 "2025-03-14T15:13:45Z")
So, the title for this episode is “The After Hours”. Anybody else remember the 1985 Scorsese film? Just watch the closing titles on the linked page. > **[After Hours](https://www.artofthetitle.com/title/after-hours/)** > > A synthy clarion bell beckons a plaster-dusted (but alive) Griffin Dunne’s “Paul Hackett” in Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. Note Hackett’s elevator door-reveal of an expression that Robert Downey Jr. has come to own over the years. With Mozart... ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/252 "2025-03-14T15:30:24Z")
You’re looking in the wrong place. Check out the old Twilight Zone episode titled “The After Hours.” The idea of the main character (“Marsha White,” the same name as Devon gave the guard at the gate) forgetting they’re a mannequin when they go out into the world to experience real life… yeah. Mind kinda blown. I fully expect next week to find out Devon has been severed all along and just somehow forgot about it. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/253 "2025-03-14T15:43:52Z")
Wow! I’m not used to the Easter Eggs being that on the nose. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/254 "2025-03-14T19:41:48Z")
> More concretely though, all of Cobel’s verbiage goes back to the episode’s title, “The After Hours.” That’s also the name of a [_Twilight Zone_ episode from 1960](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_After_Hours) which is about a mannequin come to life, though she doesn’t realize it at first. Her name? “Miss Marsha White.” And, you guessed it, she visits “the ninth floor, specialties department,” and is, in fact, “looking for a gold thimble.” How the two things tie together we aren’t quite sure yet but, it’s clearly a very deliberate, literal, homage. From > **[Severance's Penultimate Episode Was Both Heartbreaking and Fascinating](https://gizmodo.com/severance-episode-9-season-2-after-hours-recap-apple-2000575264)** > > The ninth episode of season two, 'The After Hours,' is now streaming on Apple TV+. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/255 "2025-03-14T22:18:45Z")
Maybe that’ll explain her marriage, somehow. I’m not entirely joking. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/256 "2025-03-14T22:24:01Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Maybe that’ll explain her marriage, somehow Yeah. Ricken is either key to this whole story or the fattest red herring in TV History. ---
**Author:** ![CoolHandCox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coolhandcox/32/16233_2.png) [@CoolHandCox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoolHandCox)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/257 "2025-03-15T03:07:58Z")
Lumon sends Miss Huang to study more in “svalbard”. I looked, it’s in the Artic. 500 or so miles north of Finland. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/258 "2025-03-15T03:18:16Z")
She could work at the seed vault. > **[Svalbard Global Seed Vault](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault)** > > The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure backup facility for the world's crop diversity on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The Seed Vault provides long-term storage for duplicates of seeds from around the world, conserved in gene banks. This provides security of the world's food supply against the loss of seeds in genebanks due to mismanagement, accident, equipment failures, funding cuts, war, sabotage, dis ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/259 "2025-03-15T10:45:06Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > You’re looking in the wrong place. Check out the old Twilight Zone episode titled “The After Hours.” > > The idea of the main character (“Marsha White,” the same name as Devon gave the guard at the gate) forgetting they’re a mannequin when they go out into the world to experience real life… yeah. Mind kinda blown. I fully expect next week to find out Devon has been severed all along and just somehow forgot about it. Next week’s special guest star: Kim Cattrall. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952/260 "2025-03-15T14:06:11Z")
Any thoughts on Helly being “my Helly”’s significance? While Helena is just a fetid moppet? Moppets in our world are great puppets… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/severance-season-2-open-spoilers/1012952.md?page=14)