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The latest episode of Apple TV+'s Severance is as dense as it is heartbreaking."Chikhai Bardo" depicts Mark and Gemma's history together, from their first meet-cute until her supposed"death." As the episode reveals, they were once both college professors — with him teaching History with a focus on World War I and her teaching Russian literature. The episode drops many nods to Gemma's past work, especially Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Hadji Murad.
When Mark and Gemma first meet, she is grading a paper on the subject of religious conversion in The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and, later, Dr. Mauer mocks it during her captivity at Lumon —"Let me guess, he dies in the end," he says, but we actually learn about it in the first chapter.
Related 'Severance' Just Revealed Lumon's Most Disturbing Recruiting Tactic Yet There needs to be a separation of church and severance. Considering Lumon as a parallel with imperial Russia, joining them certainly feels like betraying something. Seeing how Gemma apparently has a perfectly healthy body in"Chikhai Bardo," it doesn't look like she actually suffered an accident, but rather that Lumon somehow co-opted her to join them, either by kidnapping her or convincing her.
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