Severance has sufficient unanswered questions and detailed fan theories to make even essentially the most trustworthy viewer involved in regards to the collection in the end sticking the touchdown. In a latest interview with Selection, collection creator Dan Erickson offers reassurance that the sci-fi drama received’t have an ending just like the traditionally derided denouement to ABC drama Misplaced.
To remind the few individuals unaware (Misplaced ending spoilers comply with!), Misplaced’s sixth and closing season pissed off a bunch of people that had devoted a whole bunch of actual hours watching the present a few group of airplane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious tropical island. Within the closing season, the present launched a complicated parallel timeline the place the stranded characters stay regular lives, solely to search out out it wasn’t a parallel timeline however some form of purgatory-like afterlife the place they’ll all reunite. We by no means discover out why all that bizarre stuff occurs on the island, what the deal was with all of these numbers, or the place Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) received the powers to grant immortality and depart every time he wished.
Erickson guarantees Severance received’t flip into Misplaced, however dances round totally committing to answering the entire present’s mysteries. “I promise the present won’t actually flip into Misplaced. We received’t put them on an island and have Sawyer present up. No—we’re very acutely aware of that indisputable fact that we have to know the place we’re going, and we have to reward individuals’s endurance and religion.”
That Severance fan theories multiplying faster than Apple can pump out episodes virtually ensures there will probably be questions unanswered, primarily as a result of they had been questions Erickson by no means posed. The collection can have a satisfying ending with out explaining what number of departments there are within the Lumon constructing that homes the primary solid, or why there’s a youngster engaged on the Severed Flooring. These mysteries are ancillary and never central to the drama of the present. However, there stay fairly a number of mysteries they’ll must clear up by the top of the collection in the event that they need to keep away from Misplaced ranges of ignominy.
We have to know what these severed staff are literally engaged on, and what Lumon’s final plan is. The whereabouts of Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman) appear to be a focus of the present season, however we additionally must know if and the way Lumon faked her demise given the info Mark S (Adam Scott) says he recognized her physique. Beneath no circumstance can this collection finish with out explaining what the fuck is the cope with the goats.
These are only a few of the core mysteries that must be resolved however the time the present wraps up. Fortunate for us Severance followers, Erickson says Season 3 shouldn’t have the almost three-year wait Season 2 had. Let’s simply hope this entire collection isn’t all simply taking place in Kier’s comatose thoughts in some Lumon nursing residence.
