This text incorporates spoilers for “Severance” season 2 episode 1, “Hey, Ms. Cobel.”
Going into the mind-bending “Severance” season 2, the present’s first season had already pushed house that Lumon Industries is as much as no good. The surreal, dystopian workplace setting and the character severance course of that basically traps the “innie” employees there eternally whereas their “outies” get to take pleasure in a toil-free life are only the start. All the things from Mr. Milchick’s (Tramell Tillman) eerily comforting smile that does not fairly attain his eyes to the stick-and-carrot remedy of the severed workers, the place rewards vary from completely underwhelming to the horrifying absurdity of the Waffle Get together, signifies that there is much more occurring than easy high-confidentiality workplace work.
The season 2 premiere, titled “Hey, Ms. Cobel,” reveals that Lumon has lots extra horrors in retailer. With Milchick now seemingly promoted to Ms. Cobel’s (Patricia Arquette) previous place of managing the severed flooring, Mark S. (Adam Scott), Helly R. (Britt Decrease), Dylan G. (Zach Cherry), and Irving B. (John Turturro) make an unwelcome return to the “Severance” workplace – and uncover that their new supervisor, Miss Huang (Sarah Bock), appears far, far too younger to be working in a prime secret venture.
Whereas Bock herself was born in 2006, Huang is clearly meant to be far youthful. Going by the character’s college uniform-coded outfit and Mark instantly noting that she’s a baby, it might seem that Lumon is now dabbling in baby labor.
Miss Huang’s presence has terrifying implications for Severance
The revelation {that a} new authority determine on the severed flooring is an eerily calm baby leaves each severed worker appropriately freaked out, and it does not precisely assist that it seems Miss Huang — similar to Mr. Milchick — is not severed herself. Throughout the introductory ball sport, she reveals that it is her first day on the job, and that her earlier gig was as a crossing guard. This appears to suggest that Lumon recruited her instantly from a college setting.
So, what does an unsevered baby do in a prestigious supervisor place at what, for all intents and functions, appears to be Lumon’s single most essential division? What’s extra, is she alone, or are there different youngsters working for Lumon as properly, for the reason that episode additionally reveals that the corporate operates in over 200 areas? Presumably, “Severance” will reply these mysteries in some unspecified time in the future, however for now, this looks like the form of factor that will trigger much more outcry than the severance course of itself ought to the general public discover out.
In “Severance” season 1, we uncover that Lumon Industries has aspirations for bringing the titular course of to a large, doubtlessly world scale, for unclear causes. The revelation in “Hey, Ms. Cobel” that the corporate does not solely goal the general public, however truly enlists a baby to oversee its key venture appears to be organising a horrifying revelation later down the road. Mix this with every part else you should keep in mind about “Severance” and Lumon earlier than totally diving into season 2, and plainly the trip the present has in retailer will probably be wilder than ever.
