This article contains spoilers For “Severance” season 2 episode 4, “Hollow’s Hollow”.
Lumon Industries is not good, right? “Severance” likes to play the mysteries of society near the chest, revealing only the tip of the horrible iceberg when it absolutely owes it. However, what Apple TV + Mystery show has Until now, revealed the real objective of the company, and “Hollow’s Hollow” does not support the spectator’s mind exactly.
The episode widens the mythology of the show in several frightening and veiled manners characteristic, some of which are seen through the eyes of an increasingly unbalanced Irving (John Turturro). After having effectively broken the links with the rest of the Macrodata refinement team during their outdoor team consolidation retirement, the formerly reliable office drone walks in the woods to give Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman ) A piece of his mind. Unfortunately, Irving is losing its way and is forced to sleep rough in the dark forest.
Here, he has a dream vision that is up there with the most annoying sites that “Severance” has presented so far. He shows a woeh -fed an air personification – one of the “four moods” forced by the series – working on the Macrodata refinement station in the middle of the forest. When Irving investigates, he sees a screen with figures that dance and form strange patterns that look like an eye. The small text at the top reads as follows: “Montauk 3% complete.” The dream ends with a fear of predictable leap but effective in unhappiness, but the aforementioned text reveals is the real cut.
Let’s take a look at the Montauk project and that this former conspiracy theory could mean for the poor characters of “Severance”.
Montauk is the benchmark for the most clear conspiracy theory of the program to date
The most likely culprit behind the “reference of Montauk de Severance is already familiar to the dedicated fans of” Stranger Things “of Netflix. The science fiction adventure show of the Duffer Brothers was inspired by a frightening and allegedly experience real called the Montauk project, to the point that the work title of the series was “Montauk”. Island, New York.
The theory of shaded buffoonery assorted from the Montauk project presents important similarities with the experience of Philadelphia, a theory of the conspiracy of the American navy of the 1940s which itself inspired “The X-Files” season 2 episode “Død Kalm” . This alleged time travel incident has also been the subject of the 1984 science fiction thriller “The Philadelphia Experiment”, among many other allusions of pop culture.
Knowing that the story of Montauk, the way “Hollow’s Hollow” drops the name in one of the most pivotal scenes in the episode will probably not be fortuitous. Montauk has a lot of weight in POP culture – in the collaborative fiction project “SCP Foundation”, for example, it lends its name to a terrifying but unpertified procedure used to contain an entity known as SCP -231. Seeing the word on the “starting semets” and knowing its story does not add a small amount of weight to the possibility that the floor cut of Lumon is actually a major experience of psy-ops or even paranormal variety.
Severance likes to create its own versions of real events and concepts
In addition to the strange rules and the worship of the cult type that the company imposes on its cut staff, each Lamon department on the coupé floor seems to be something shadow, absurd rural buffoons of mammals nourished by the fact that Mark’s (Adam Scott ) The apparently deceased wife Gemma (Dichen Lachman) is still alive and has an innie called Ms. Casey. The program also teased the importance of Cold Harbor, an important file of macrodules which depends on the work of Mark and seems to be connected to Gemma. The emphasis regularly re -emerging on the four temperatures of Kier Eagan – Woe, Gaders, scary and malicious – also seems to be linked to the work of Macrodate’s refinement to settle the numbers according to the emotions they arouse.
It should be noted that many of the most disturbing concepts of the show have a real meaning. “Cold Harbor” could be a reference to a civil war battle which took place in 1964, a year before the Lumon Industries foundation. The philosophy of the Oven Tempers is essentially a Kier Eagan touch on the ancient psychological concept of Hippocrates of four temperaments, which itself comes from an even older medical theory of four moods.
Since these concepts of “dryer” have enough connection with the real world to ask the spectator, the dream referencing Montauk in “Woe’s Hollow” is annoying. Maybe that simply refers to a file that is Irving’s version of everything Cold Harbor represents to mark. Perhaps this Montauk is linked to the end of season 1 of the “Seèvée”, which implies that Lumon plans something linked to compensation worldwide … or it could be even worse. Be that as it may, viewers should probably be happy that the Montauk process in the almost certainly Irving’s prophetic dream is currently only 3%.
