to cut It was a huge hit in 2022 – and for good reason. The new Apple TV+ series is a workplace drama with a sci-fi twist, following a group of people who work for a company (Lumon) who have a secret workplace policy: literally dividing their consciousness between work-life balance. Over the course of the first season of Severance, the cast of “Macrodata Refinement” began to realize that their working selves (“Sons”) were not as satisfied or happy as their working selves (“Externals”) thought their selves were. The end of the first season saw the team launch a desperate plan to break free.
And Severance The ending left fans hanging off a huge cliff…
(Follow the spoilers!) In the to cut “We” Conclusion The Macrodata Refinement team’s ambitious hack plan succeeds: Devon stays in the business of activating the Overtime Contingency that allows Lumon to activate Worker Personas even while they are in the outside world. Activating overtime according to their own whims, the Macrodata Refinement team essentially go “in disguise” as their selves in the outside world – only to discover how traumatizing the “sons” are all the time in the dark.
Here’s a full explanation of what the Severance Finale reveals about each main character – and where the cliffhanger ending leaves them:
Mark S. (Adam Scott): Mark “wakes up” to find himself at a self-help reading party for his son-in-law Ricken (Michael Chernus). This party includes all of Mark’s best friends – who are complete strangers to herself at work. Mark confesses to his sister Devon (Jane Tullock) that he’s working on his own, and that this class wasn’t a big deal to him. Mark finally discovers that his “neighbor” Mrs. Selfig is actually his boss Harmony Koppel, who has infiltrated his personal life (even taking care of his newborn niece) to keep an eye on Mark. Sees the end of the working cliffhanger – Mark discovers that the wife he’s been grieving all along (and whose death made him choose to separate), is actually still alive and working with him the whole time: Lumon’s health advisor Mrs. Casey. Mark manages to yell revealing to his sister a moment before Lumon stops the emergency extra and puts the “outie” Mark back into place.
Hailey R. (Brett Lauer): It was Healy who led the revolution within the Macrodata Refinement department – and went so far as to try to kill herself to escape from Lomon. However, an overtime case reveals that Helly “R” is actually Helena Egan, a descendant of Le Moncare founder Egan. Helena subjected herself to dismissal as a means of directly documenting the process to prove its effectiveness and dispel social and political opposition to it. When Hailey wakes up from overtime, she finds herself in a precarious position as she is forced to give a big speech as Helena to Lumon’s board of directors and the executive team. Helena learns about her own history as she talks with her father, Jam Egan backstage, and almost stops when Harmony Coppel arrives and realizes that “Healy” is pretending to be “Helena”. During the latter event, Hailey released her revolutionary speech denouncing the class – I thought it was left to a lot of mystery whether the audience believed it or not.
Irving b. (John Turturro): Obedient Irving was the least likely member of the Microdata Revolution, but became its biggest supporter after Lomon retired from his love interest at work, Bert J. (Christopher Walken). When Irving wakes up overtime, he’s at home obsessively painting pictures of the Lomon entrance/exit elevator, as usual. It turns out that Irving is very different from his basic, fit co-worker, sporting a leather jacket, muscle car, and military background. Irving finds evidence that “outtie” did an extensive investigation to locate Burt G. in the outside world, proving that somehow love can transcend separation. When the end of the cliffhanger comes, Irving drives and finds Burt’s home – only to see that he appears to be happily domesticated, and living with another man. The scene leads Irving Wilde, and the last thing we see is him knocking on Burt’s door, demanding an audience for a man he loves — but may not even remember.
Outside of the main characters, Harmony Corbel realizes what Macrodata did before anyone else in Lumon — but since she’s been suspended for letting Helena kill herself, it’s unclear if any of the executives will actually listen to her. Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman), the Lumon Supervisor overseeing Macrodata Refinement, answers Harmony’s call to reach the control desk and prevent Microdata team member Dylan (Zach Cherry) from activating overtime. Melchic does what is required, and last saw he and Dylan struggle on the control room floor, with an ominous question about how to punish Dylan for his rebellion.
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