2 Severance Workers Aren't Really Severed - Theory Explained

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Warning! SPOILERS for Severance.

Severance deals with a frightening, but curious concept of a world in which the employees of a certain company have their personal memories separated (or "severed") from their work-life memories, but one theory posits that two of the show's characters aren't really severed. The new Apple TV+ series has Ben Stiller as a producer and mixes elements that range from The Office to Black Mirror. Severance follows the story of Mark Scout, an employee of Lumon Industries for over two years, and Helly, who has just joined the company.

Although Lumon Industries is an important and well-known company in that universe, its huge complex is not very populated by employees. In the small rooms that Mark and Helly work in, there are only two other desk workers as well as a supervisor and the head of the department. There is also not much furniture in the offices, and most of the tech available is old-fashioned.

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All the contradictions surrounding Severance's Lumon Industries collaborate with the idea that not everything is what it seems to be at that company. In addition to the obvious problem behind the severance process, it's possible that other secrets are being kept from Severance's characters. This is all complicated by a theory claiming that two people at Lumon Industries are not actually severed.

While all Lumon Industries’ employees must say something nice every day about the portrait of a mysterious figure known as Kier Egan, it remains unclear who the real boss of Lumon Industries is. All the focus given to the creator of Lumon Industries may just be serving as a red herring to throw off audiences from the fact that Harmony Cobel, played