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‘Severance’ Fans Celebrate Season 2 Finale With Lumon Industries Cosplay and Waffles

The sci-fi thriller “Severance” is about an enigmatic, cultlike company and its “severed” employees, whose brains have been surgically divided into an “innie” work consciousness and an “outie” home one. The show itself has a kind of bifurcated existence, becoming Apple TV+’s most popular series ever while inspiring fans in the non-TV world to spin fanciful theories — some of which have been borne out — and otherwise wallow in its imagery and mysteries.

One of the most colorful examples of this happened at a venue in Kingston, N.Y., on Friday, as the series closed out its second season. The owners of two area restaurants that served as filming locations in the series, Phoenicia Diner and Eng’s, a Chinese restaurant in downtown Kingston, co-hosted a watch party for the season finale that included costumes, dance-offs, themed snacks and other “Severance”-related festivities.

An unsevered photographer was inside to document all the choreography and merriment for The New York Times. Please try to enjoy each photo equally, and not show preference for any over the others.

Held at Assembly, a venue in Kingston, the event included costume and dance contests and “Severance” souvenirs, like finger traps and Lumon Industries badges.
Phoenicia Diner, seen in the show as a restaurant called Pip’s, offered attendees their own waffle parties.
Goats, one of the most beloved bits of “Severance” iconography, were well-represented.
Attendees paid tribute to characters including Lorne, the goat minder, and Miss Huang, the young deputy manager.
Unlike in “Severance,” attendees were allowed to remember their innies’ experiences.

Audience Report is a series that looks at people looking. Produced by Jolie Ruben and Amanda Webster.

Source: Television - nytimes.com


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