Severance brought everything together in its season 2 finale
Rest easy: we don’t have another Lost on our hands. As beloved as that classic mystery box show was, it was equally frustrating for the way it teased big secrets with answers that either underwhelmed or never came. With the mysteries in Severance piling up since its first season, viewers have had every right to be worried they were in for something similar.
But show’s season 2 finale didn’t just show that all of its mysteries, no matter how small or weird, meant something. It did so in an elegant way — neatly connecting disparate storylines together, while also leaving just enough unclear to make for yet another great cliffhanger. And it was all while being weird and terrifying in a very specifically Severance way.
This story contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of Severance.
Let’s recap some of those lingering mysteries. There was the completion of the Cold Harbor file that Mark S. (Adam Scott) had been working on and that Lumon Industries was eagerly awaiting, calling it “mysterious and important.†There was Gemma / Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman), who had been undergoing a series of tortuous experiments deep in Lumon’s basement, for unclear reasons. There was t …