Julio Bardini is a Senior Author at Collider who focuses on sci-fi, historical works, and analysis. He also writes for Cinema Com Rapadura in Brazil.
After vanishing for a few episodes, Harmony Cobel is back in Severance with a whole episode to herself, and a rather shocking one at that. In Season 2's"Sweet Vitriol," we learn about her past as a child prodigy working at the Lumon Industries ether factory in the small town of Salt's Neck, which may have been bustling with life at one time, but now is in a sad and decrepit state, looking"older and frailer," as Cobel notes to her once-"chum" Hampton .
Ether mills are especially significant for Lumon, as they were how the company began in pharmaceutics. In the episode"Woe's Hollow," it's mentioned that Kier Eagan had one himself, but, once Kier founded Lumon, those were his first buildings before the company grew to its current gigantic proportions.
Something that's instantly noticeable about Salt's Neck is that no one is in good health. There is an old lady on oxygen at the Drippy Pot Café, like Cobel's own mother had to be after a lifetime of work at the ether mill. Diethyl ether is used to make medicines like anesthetics and analgesics, but the substance itself is highly addictive, and constant inhaling causes severe lung irritation, among other symptoms.
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