Our critics and editors assess the new conflicts introduced by the Season 2 finale and whether it cleared up enough of the show’s many mysteries.
The second season of “Severance” just wrapped up with its longest episode yet. We have thoughts. Spoilers abound.
Whose Side Are We On?
There are endings that give you what you want. There are endings that don’t give you what you want. There are endings that give you what you don’t want.
Then there are endings that make you wonder what exactly you should want, which was what the “Severance” Season 2 finale did.
The first season of “Severance” gave us some clear rooting interests. We wanted Mark Scout to find his not-dead-yet wife, Gemma. And we wanted Mark S. and the rest of his innie colleagues to find freedom, self-determination and love. But the finale hit a realization that the season had been building to: These two wants might not be compatible, at least not easily.
The two Marks having the world’s weirdest Zoom conversation at the birthing cabin laid the conflict out. The series has shown them to date as twin protagonists wronged by the mighty Lumon corporation. But there’s a power dynamic between the two of them as well, as innie Mark says with growing frustration.
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