Severance‘s Shifting Perspectives Make Its Fractured Reality Even More Fascinating

From the start, Severance has offered a captivating take on how perspectives can change within a single story, and even within the minds of individual characters. As season two began, the show gave us back-to-back episodes that showed the immediate fallout of the season one finale—in which the “innies” briefly awakened and experienced life as their “outies”—from different points of view, with the non-severed characters also getting space to share their reactions. As season two has progressed, Severance has continued to explore this aspect of its storytelling, giving us more time with the outies to balance out season one’s innie focus, and presenting constant surprises to the audience as a result. Certain things that we believed to be true are in fact completely false, shaped by Lumon Industries’ unique ability to massage reality for its employees who aren’t able to access their full consciousness. And while the innies’ world is almost entirely fabricated, some of that massaging has ha ... Read full article.