On Severance, the Past Is a Dark and Ominous Place

On Severance, the Past Is a Dark and Ominous Place

'Sweet Vitriol' excellently illustrated that for every character with a backstory, there's something tragic and weird lurking in the shadows.

A lot of RuptureThe main characters have no past. An innie, whose consciousness was created for the sole purpose of working at Lumon Industries, does not remember anything before the day, a chip has been stuck in his brain and they awakened a whole new person. This whole scenario is his own flavor to look at existential horror in the abyss, and it's something Rupture spends a lot of time exploring. But among the characters we know something abou…

Does Salts Neck have a real reputation as a ghost town?

Assassinated: Apple TV+’s ‘Severance’, season 2, opens in Salt’s Neck, the birthplace of Harmony Cobel, an old school employee who returns to her...

On Severance, the Past Is a Dark and Ominous Place - WorldNL Magazine

Many of Severance’s main characters have no past. An innie, whose consciousness was created for the sole purpose of working at Lumon Industries, remembers nothing prior to the day a chip was wedged into their brain and they woke up a brand-new person.  That whole scenario is its own flavor of gazing-into-the-abyss existential horror, and it’s something Severance spends a lot of time exploring. But among the characters whose pasts we do know some…

Georgia Dow — Irving’s Secret Past in Severance Revealed! — Therapist Analysis

Severance masterfully explores the complexities of memory, trauma, and identity, but Irving’s story may be the most haunting of all. In this video, psychotherapist Georgia Dow unpacks the psychological reality of repressed memories and how they shape Irving’s journey. What is his mind hiding, and how does his past influence his actions? Join us as we break down the science behind memory repression, trauma responses, and what Severance gets right…

Severance S2E8 Recap: Inhaling Some "Sweet Vitriol"

The following recap contains spoilers for Severance S2E8, “Sweet Vitriol” (written by Adam Countee & K.C. Perry and directed by Ben Stiller) Severance S2E8 finally checks in with Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette), who has been absent from our story since S2E3. At the beginning of that episode, she was asleep on the side of the road near a sign that read “Salt’s Neck 238” before she decided to turn around and go back to Kier. There, she got freak…