Severance Answered One of Its Biggest Questions With a Truly Mind-Melting Episode

We’ve watched the seventh episode of Severance season two, “Chikhai Bardo,” a few times now and still barely have any idea what’s going on. We know that it confirms everyone’s biggest assumption from the end of last season, that Mark’s wife Gemma is currently alive. But, beyond that, things get fuzzy. It’s by far the trippiest, weirdest episode of the series yet, which is saying something when this season the characters visited a seemingly random outdoor park named after the dead twin brother of their company’s founder, where they encountered mysterious doppelgangers of themselves. This beat that, and it’s not even close. Truly, the episode was like watching a Severance fever dream from an avant-garde artist, and we mean that in the best possible way. So, first of all, kudos to first-time director Jessica Lee Gagné, the show’s regular director of photography, because she made a truly memorable episode of television. What did it all mean though? Let’s talk about it. The best place to ... Read full article.