Severance Season 2’s Miss Huang Units A Scary Precedent

“Why are you a toddler?”

It solely took ten minutes for Severance’s Season 2 premiere to introduce the query that may certainly be on everybody’s minds for the rest of the season. Requested by former Lumon retiree Mark W. (Bob Balaban), the query’s goal is Miss Huang, performed with bone-chilling apathy by Sarah Bock. Huang is likely one of the latest additions to the Severance world, and her mere existence on the severed ground comes with some disturbing implications. And that’s earlier than we get into how she acts like a Lumon Terminator awaiting kill instructions.

The Season 2 premiere isn’t the Season 1 epilogue we might have hoped for given the cliffhangers of that season’s finale, however it does increase that maze of a world in terrifying methods. Within the aftermath of what Lumon has dubbed the “Macrodat Rebellion” involving the Macrodata Refinement crew’s Innies awakening within the outdoors world, Lumon has tried to scrub up its act in a approach solely a soulless company would if their insidious operation was uncovered to the general public. Concord Cobel (Patricia Arquette) has been changed by Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman) as the ground supervisor, together with her manipulative intrusion into Mark S’s life diminished to her being a sadist scapegoat who “developed an erotic fixation on [Mark S.], and had plans to pursue [him and his Outie] in what could also be termed a ‘throuple,’” based on Mr. Milchick.

The break room is now a lounge as a substitute of a punishment chamber, a brand new household visitation room will permit Innie Dylan George (Zach Cherry) to spend time together with his Outie’s spouse, and Innies can stroll round freely with a Corridor Move like grade schoolers. Lumon’s rebrand is suspicious at greatest, and misleading at worst. And Ms. Huang is a reminder of how evil that firm actually is.

Outdoors of the newborn goats, no kind of kid has been seen on the severed ground, which is smart as a result of the work of adults is seldomly applicable for a kid. The very fact they introduced her in after an worker tried to hold themselves, one other worker bit a superior and broke into the safety room to wake themselves up, and the previous ground supervisor was stalking one of many different staff both means they don’t have any regard for a kid’s security, or that youngster is frighteningly outfitted to cope with all of that. By the appears of the Season 2 premiere, it may be the latter.

Ms. Huang’s jovial nature is as contrived as that of any Lumon superior, and she will be able to go from pleasant to ferocious frighteningly quick. When Mark S. sarcastically intimates that she’s considered one of his new pals, she shoots him one of many iciest stares in Severance historical past earlier than telling him, “I’ve to remind you I’m a supervisor…not a pal.” Then, she lets her refined scolding hold within the air in a staring standoff with Mark S., nearly as a method to let him know she is to not be fucked with like previous supervisors.

There’s no telling how brainwashed the youngest Severance talking character is besides, the Season 2 premiere put sufficient concern in our hearts of simply how wicked Lumon will reveal itself to be within the new season.