The only people who anticipated the completion of “Cold Harbor” as eagerly as Jame Eagan and the Lumon Board were, well, the entire audience of Apple TV+ hit “Severance.” And we had been waiting a long, long time. Season 2 was famously delayed and delayed, arriving almost three full years after season 1, and the second season took a little while to hit its stride. The explosive finale finally dropped on Thursday, bringing us some (though not all) of the answers we were seeking about the experiments being done on Gemma, the purpose of the goats, and how the ill-fated love triangle between Mark, Helly, and Gemma might end. Though the final scenes seemed like a fitting ending for the series, never fear: Season 3 is in the works, and there are plenty of threads to pick up and potential storylines to pursue.
For now, however, we wanted to talk about what it all means, and how season 2 continued to build out a world that uncomfortably mirrors our own rapidly changing…
