Although Apple TV+ is far from being up to the task of other streaming giants – the number of monthly views on the platform corresponds to that of Netflix on a daily basis – there is one area where the SVoD service outperforms the competition : the quality of its productions. Like HBO once upon a time, Apple TV+ made a name for itself with series like Ted Lasso, Silo, Slow Horses, Sugar and each new project is now highly anticipated by the series enthusiast community. A more than feverish community this week, because one of its most acclaimed shows returns to the platform: Severance saison 2.
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Created by Dan Erickson – for whom this is the first baby – and mainly directed by Ben Stiller abandoning his acting career, the series places us in a world where a society has found a way to dissociate the memories of its employees between professional and personal life. Each individual thus has two distinct existences, very strictly compartmentalized by the company. Mark leads a small metadata team, but the arrival of a new employee will lead to deeper questions about the nature of their work and the secrets it hides.
And speaking of secrets, let’s take stock of the answers we hope to obtain when Severance season 2 and the hypotheses we make about it. Warning, the sequel will spoil events from the first.
The consequences of the rebellion for Lumon?
The finale of season 1 of Severance ended with the “ internal » managing to communicate with the outside world. Assuming that Irving (John Turturro) didn’t have time to talk to Burt (Christopher Walken) before seeing the connection cut, Helly (Britt Lower) and Mark (Adam Scott) manage to do so. Except that the first one is in enemy territory and we assume that her speech will not reach the right people. So only Mark remains, whose sister now knows. But is this enough to jeopardize the company? Little chance in truth given the sprawling empire they face.
However, we are still curious to know how Lumon will reorganize itself from the inside to prevent this type of event from happening again. The seeds of revolt have been sown and it is important that they do not reach other sectors of the building. And what will become of Cobel (Patricia Arquette) now that she has been fired from Lumon and her position as a spy has been exposed to Mark’s family?
What punishments for the team?
This is surely the question on everyone’s lips at the end of the first season. We suspect that Lumon will not react well to the team’s actions and that this will lead to certain consequences. Are they going to be deprived of their “ outdoor life » as for Mrs. Casey? Unlikely, because the series couldn’t keep us away from these versions now that we know more about their personal lives.
The first thing that comes to mind is a separation of the team, with potentially a very, very long time in mental torture space in order to reformat minds. New offices and new characters in perspective?
How will external Mark react when he learns that his wife is alive?
Assuming that their original versions survive, we are curious to know if Mark S.’s last words will be understood by his sister and transmitted to his external self. From then on, we can imagine the latter leading the investigation and potentially coming across the group’s other investigator, Irving.
What happens to “extinct” people?
Since dissociation allows one of the two sides to be extinguished (Burt for one, Casey for the other), we are curious to know what happens to a person who is erased. Do professional memories remain somewhere, stored in a drawer? And Casey, since she’s supposed to be dead to those around her and she was very little “on” at Lumon, what does the company do with the body in the meantime?
Cloning or body change?
Let’s dig deeper into the theories. If a chip makes it possible to dissociate a person, is it possible to transfer memories ? What if Mark’s wife was really dead, but Casey was just a clone? This theory came to us with the sequence of baby goats whose nature we do not know. Likewise, Burt’s team is responsible for “reproducing” objects. The link between the two seems obvious.
In the same way, can we envisage that memories could be transferred to another body? Mark finding himself with the memory of Irving for example. In concrete application, we imagine that a spy could very well slip among our heroes.
A traitor among them?
Which brings us to one last theory: a traitor will slip into the team in season 2 of Severance. And this is undoubtedly our most probable hypothesis for a simple and good reason: we know that Helly is in reality the heir of Eagan and therefore one of the thinking heads of Lumon. He is the only person who has no intention of sinking the company, unlike his employee version.
So she’s the only one of the four who has reason to derail the team’s plans, and what better way to do that than to include her? With the knowledge of what her other version experienced from the recordings and Milchick, she can completely play double agents and pretend to be the dissociated part.
Severance season 2 begins on January 17 on Apple TV+ and we can’t wait to know if our theories are confirmed or, on the contrary, to have surprising answers! And you, what are your hypotheses?
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