Can’t wait to see y’all at some unspecified point in the future! Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Aplle TV+ The season-one finale of Severance pushed its audience to the farthest edges of their seats then left them there, off-balance and out of fresh oxygen. After three members of Lumon Industries’ macrodata refinement team reintegrated their at-work and at-home identities long enough to sound the alarm about their insidious employer, the episode abruptly ended.
The Severance cliffhanger is effective from a narrative standpoint for all the reasons that Erickson mentions. But it goes further than that by also working on a thematic level. There is truly no more appropriate way that season one could have ended. The TV calendar as we once knew it has imploded in the past decade or so, which means that no one knows exactly how much time will pass between seasons of any given show. Way back in May 2005, some Lost fans got annoyed when the season one finale revealed the existence of the hatch without explaining it. But at least they knew they would find out more come September, the month when most major scripted TV shows resumed their runs.
The same is true about their own identities, which are medically compartmentalized between work and home, thereby achieving the most extreme version of work-life balance, one where the two are fully separate. Throughout this season — as Helly rebels, Mark connects with Petey, Irv seeks to truly know Burt, and Dylan learns he has a son beyond the Lumon walls — the principal figures yearn more and more to grasp who they are as both innies and outies, despite their severed status.
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