Severance Season 2 is almost here, but fans are still grappling with the unanswered questions from Season 1. From the enigmatic goats to Ms. Cobel's obsession with Mark, let's explore the biggest mysteries that need resolution.
With Severance Season 2 finally arriving on Apple TV+ later this week after a nearly 3-year wait, fans are buzzing with excitement — and with loads of questions. That’s because the first season of Apple’s mind-bending workplace thriller left us with more Q’s than A’s, even as we all got caught up in what’s proven to be one of the best TV shows the iPhone maker has released since launching its streamer back in 2019. Given that the first episode of the new season of Severance drops on Jan.
17, it’s time to revisit some of the biggest mysteries and most burning questions that Season 1 left us with before it’s time to check back in with the Macrodata Refinement team at Lumon. Needless to say, for those of you who haven’t dived into Season 1 yet, there will be tons of spoilery reveals below. Also, the lingering questions will be presented in no particular order. One more time, *spoilers to follow*. Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, John Turturro, and Britt Lower in 'Severance.' 1. What’s the deal with the goats? In Episode 5 of Season 1, titled The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design, Helly comes across a room that’s still perplexing Severance fans three years later: The room is filled with goats, and there’s a man silently tending to them. Obviously, that was an incongruous sight inside a corporate office complex, and theories as to what the goats mean have abounded online. One of the most popular: The goats are the silent board members we never hear through the loudspeaker whenever the Lumon board assembles to speak through Natalie, the board liaison. That's an interesting theory, to be sure, but there’s obviously a huge flaw: Remember when Ms. Cobel gets fired and demands to speak to the board directly to make her case? We hear a single word through the speaker, in answer to her request: “Yes.” Which would seem to shoot down that the board members aren’t, in fact, people. Still, though, are they some sort of avatar for broader experiments happening inside Lumon? Or do they have some sort of Kier-like, cultish significance? 2. What really happened to Mark’s wife, Gemma? The only reason Mark S., played by Adam Scott, is at Lumon in the first place is because of his overwhelming grief following the loss of his wife. One of the things that made the Season 1 finale so jaw-dropping was Mark’s revelation that his wife is actually alive — and that she's none other than Ms. Casey, the wellness counselor Mark had visited multiple times inside the Lumon office. The big question, obviously, is how she ended up at Lumon. If Gemma really did die in a car crash, as we'd been led to believe, that would mean Lumon’s severance chip sort of re-animated her. Given that the chips simply shut on and shut off access to memories, I don’t see how the chip would be powerful enough to do that. Which then leads to an obvious follow-up: Did Gemma even die at all? If she didn't ... what the hell? What's the point of faking that? Something is definitely going on with her, based on her strange and unsettling personality alone. By the end of Season 1, she’s been fired as Lumon’s wellness counselor and sent back to the testing floor, whatever that means. 3. Why, oh why, is Ms. Cobel so darn obsessed with Mark’s outie? Harmony Cobel — who heads the severed floor at Lumon, and who’s known on the outside as Ms. Selvig — has a fixation on Mark S. both inside and outside the company that clearly goes beyond professional interest. There’s at least one thing going on while she spies on him at home, from the vantage point of her alter ego as his quirky neighbor: She keeps probing to see if there’s any spillover between Mark’s innie and outie. However, her obsession also seems to go deeper than that. Does it somehow tie back to Lumon’s enigmatic founder, Kier Eagan? Because Ms. Cobel is definitely a true believer. My suspicion: Harmony is desperate to prove that reintegration works, despite the board insisting that the severance effects are permanent. Presumably, because she wants to un-sever or wake up a loved one? 4. What do the Macrodata Refinement numbers mean? The four-person MDR team spends hours sorting mysterious numbers on their computers that somehow evoke primal emotions. Do the numbers somehow control human behavior? Are they a smokescreen for something even more sinister? This is a good time to bring up something related: Any Severance fan who hasn’t yet read The Lexington Letter should definitely do so before Season 2 arrives. It’s a free companion to the show, written by the creators, that’s available as an e-book from Apple’s Books app (download it here). It’s presented as a letter from a former Lumon employee to a newspaper reporter — and it hints, among other things, that there’s definitely something foreboding tied to the numbers. 5
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