We’ve been catching up on Severance this week.

One of the things that I have been enjoying about season 2 is that there are just some out there episodes. It feels like any time we leave the confines of Lumon, we’re in for a heck of a romp.

Episodes 7 and 8 of season 2 were a great example of this. We saw some pretty effecting vignettes of Mark and Gemma’s lives pre-severance and Ms. Cobel digging through her family history. Throughout these ~2 hours of TV I found myself reflecting that fewer episodes were alike, and that a lot of the fun in the experience is speculating what everything means. I am of course happy to get an answer at some point (though these things rarely live up to our own hype), but just imagining the many worlds that could exist has increased my enjoyment of this particular show significantly!

Much like Twin Peaks, I hope we don’t get any definitive answers, and that a vibrant corpus of speculative fiction springs up with everyone’s view of the world.