This article contains spoilers For “Severance” season 2 episode 10, “Cold Harbor”
Innies and outings to the characters who are entirely not under tension (to our knowledge), you can count on almost all the characters of “dryer” to cope with incalculable existential obstacles that few simple mortals are equipped to understand, and even less manage. Unless a character is armed with the Obsence of Ricken Hale self-reversal (Michael Chernus) or the megalomaniac devotion of Jame Eagan (Michael Siberry), the global industries of Lumon created seem designed to grind a person.
The company, on the other hand, is designed to last. During two seasons of “help”, nothing that the protagonists have managed to do have really influenced Lumon significantly beyond tiny drawbacks, minor public relations crises and the occasional change of staff … so far.
The final of season 2 of the “dryer”, entitled “Cold Harbor”, is the tendency of the invulnerability of Lumon in a massive and potentially irreparable way. The episode manages to destroy all the main antagonists of Lumon, offering the venerable company a really unforeseen defeat -and, let’s face it, extremely welcome -. There is nothing like looking at a close -up of blasphemies screaming by Jame Eagan while the big plan of his family collapses before his eyes, and while the road towards this moment is far from easy, “Cold Harbor” knows how to let the camera linger on this unpleasant but so satisfactory view.
Lumon takes immediate losses on all fronts
Let us control the ways in which Lumon industries face the final of season 2 of the season. ”
Mr. Drummond (ólafur darri ólafsson) is Lumon’s most resounding physical loss when Mark S. (Adam Scott) disrupts his goat sacrifice ceremony, Lorne (Gwendoline Christie) beats him, and the expulsion of Mark accidentally kills the great man soon after. In an intelligent turn of destiny, Drummond’s failure to sacrifice baby’s goat ends up making him the sacrificial lamb in the failure of “Cold Harbor” when Mark uses Lumon Heavy’s blood to access the cold port room and save Gemma (Dichen Lachman). This, in turn, interrupts Cold Harbor and FoILs Jame Eagan and Dr Mauer (Robby Benson) plans, reducing the two into howling wrecks. Meanwhile, Helena Eagan simply ceased to exist, at least as long as her innie and Mark are on the run.
Elsewhere, Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) – Always the man of the company – contributes to the sequence of defeats. Although he continues to display the anti-authority attitude he discovered in the previous episode (entitled “The After Hours”), he nevertheless passes the final of season 2 in Houle mode (Britt Lower) while visibly holding every second … and which is before Helly (Britt Lower) and Dylan (Zach Cherry) Luiser the department of Macrodata. The pain in his eyes and the absolutely furious way that he bursts from his bathroom prison implies that we have perhaps not yet seen the complete extent of the large Milchick failure. Again, it’s difficult to feel Also Sorry for the former floor director cut after having seen him send the very frightened Miss Huang (Sarah Bock) to an installation at Faraway Svalbard.
The protagonists now have several ways to harm Lumon again
Seeing Lumon undergoing immediate damage is sufficiently satisfactory, but the show is still leaning forward, and Cold Harbor “sets up several ways for his characters to injure the company more in the” Severance “season. Gemma has escaped and keeps his personality, which means that she can blow the cover on her abduction and what she knows of the human experiences of Lumon. Arquette), a former major antagonist, had already broken the links with Lumon earlier in the season, but the end of the season firmly establishes him as an ally. Public relations nightmare waiting to occur even if it seems to lack solid evidence.
Oh, and speaking of Jame: thanks to her arrogant monologue, Helly now has deeply discriminating information about her hatred of Helena Eagan, not to mention her many illicit children and other shady activities. It or the reintegration mark could easily disseminate this information, which would seriously compromise Jame’s integrity as CEO of Lumon.
Really, Lumon’s only luck at the time when the “Cold Harbor” roll credits are Innie Mark’s decision to stay on the cut up with Helly. If Mark had entered the world of outings with Gemma as planned, they and Cobel could have had a much better chance of lifting a heckling that could bring Lumon to fall. With Mark always inside the Lumon complex, the company could have a chance to control the damage … or, everything else failing, keeping it hostage to prevent his loved ones from expressing himself.
