Severance Season 2 Episode 7 solves a forgotten puzzle season 1

We trust in Keir. This article contains spoiler For the latest episode of “Severance”.

Such far-reaching and complex show as “severance pay” allows several plates in the air in a certain episode-turn some of which are solved relatively soon, and others who need a little longer to solve themselves. Although Certain goat injuries that are left from the first seasonThere is a significantly inferior (albeit no less mystifying) who have been waiting for the fans of eagle eyes to throw some light for almost three years.

Remember when our Macrodata -Verfeinerungs team during the debut season in the 6th episode (with the title “The O & D team, in” The Grimly Barbarism of Optics and Design “, the O&D team was ever accepted? Laminated cards contained, which were apparently self -defended.

Well, season 2 may have just given an unexpected answer to this extremely minor puzzle … and we are almost at all again more confused than ever before.

When a new episode of “Severance” arrives in streaming with a title like “Chikhai Bardo”, it naturally raises a simple question: What the hell is Chikhai Bardo? Although it took more than half of the episode to provide an answer, Jessica Lee Gagné, directed by Jessica Lee Gagné and written by Dan Erickson and Mark Friedman. Surprisingly, one of them turns into a rare moment in which “severance pay” literally only … the explanation states.

While the thematic and narrative purpose of the scene is to continue to apply how bad Gemma and Marks marriage broke in the period before Gemma (theoretically) fatal car accident, Erickson and the creative team found a clever way to take a few quick mystery. While Mark was still unconsciously passed out, he remembers a moment when he came across the exact kind of maps in Season on Gemma that we previously seen in Lumon Industries. Gemma (who was previously told us that she was a university professor) explains that what seemed to be two differentiated people seemed to be two differentiated people who, on the same individual battles, in an almost literally philosophical struggle against the same. Death.”

What is Chikhai Bardo anyway? The Samye InstituteAn online resource dedicated to the teachings of Buddhism describes six “Bardos” that are involved in the Tibetan tradition and, like each, represents the “experience between death and rebirth”. Each of the six reflects a different moment in life, whereby Chikhai Bardo means in particular the “Bardo of Death Moments”. However, the rest of the description is powerful Interesting in the context of Gemma’s “Death” in the real world as an outage and her current state of commit between life and death in Lumon with several different innies:

“According to tradition, this Bardo begins when the outer and inner signs of the beginning appear and continues by the dissolution or transmutation until the outer and inner breath ends.”

However, none of this explains the most urgent question in our minds: What is the meaning of this Chikhai -bardo cards that appear in Lumon Industries and then reappear here? Well, everything depends on something that Gemma mentioned freely in this previous flashback scene. Alluding to This popular optical island of the house/duck duckShe suspects that these cards fulfill a similar purpose for the circumvention and arrived after they ended up on the mailing list in the fertility clinic that you and Mark visited to present a child. As we see in the episode, these attempts were ultimately unsuccessful and at least partially led to their relationship problems before their car accident. But a flashing-and-youou is put into position several parts of the puzzle in another flashback in the clinic.

About 20 minutes after the beginning of the episode, Mark and Gemma come in the clinic to apparently undergo IVF treatments. On the way to the waiting area, a terribly familiar doctor in the background goes by with firm eyes tightly on Gemma. This certainly seems to be exactly the same doctor who, as Dr. Mauer (played by actor Robby Benson) is described in the scenes located in Lumon and which Gemma is studied and tortured flat. This opens up a completely new Pandora’s box about how the wall (provided that he has ended up this name in the real world) in this specific clinic, regardless of whether he works hidden for Lumon at the time of this flashback, and if he kept in mind GEMMA to kidnap them, and potentially orchestrating “accident” in the first place.

If Dr. Wall is the one who has sent her this Chikhai -bardo cards in the past, then it is of the opinion that it is created more of them by Optics & Design (not unlike them by them The tooth tools that he picks up at the beginning of Episode 5) and brought to the secret floor, where Gemma is studied … undoubtedly even more dark psychological purposes. In this show, every answer that we get only seems to ask more and more questions.

New episodes of “Severance” stream on Apple TV+ every Friday.