Severance: Fans Believe This Is How It Ends
Severance fans write the best theories. The Apple TV+ dramaâwhich follows an alternate world where you can separate your personal life from your office job via a computer chip in your brainâinspires the craziest ideas from viewers. Occasionally, Severance fans are even able to predict twists with surprising accuracy. But for every hilariously wacky theoryâLumon turns people into food?!Ââthereâs another Lumon loyalist who will ground the fervent fanbase back to the showâs roots.
At its core, Severance is a series about the exploitation of our workforce and how companies use pseudo-religious ideology to both instill loyalty and oppress challenges to authority. The show focuses on a small team of employees who face the futility of their work day after day. Their Innies wonder why their Outies send them to work in the first placeâwhile also weighing how much of their freedom they are willing to abandon for ignorant bliss.
While Severance’s ending may employ some of the exciting sci-fi concepts that fans throw arounâsuch as cloning, resurrection, or even attaining immortalityânone of these theories really build on the severance technology in meaningful ways. So, when contemplating Severanceâs endgame, viewers need to ask themselves what they want from a final episode.
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How Will Severance End?For some theorists, reintegration is the only ending that could result in a satisfying conclusion. âThe only way Severance can end is with the consciousness of the Innie and the Outie joining into one,â one Reddit user suggests. Cloning and body-swapping just create too many new problems. In fact, Adam Scott even told EW when he read fan theories at the beginning of season 2 that cloning, âsounds like what Lumon would be doing in a super boring version of Severance.â Harsh, but not wrong.
Beyond the themes of an oppressive workplace, Severance mainly focuses on Mark S.’s journey of grief and love. So, itâs only natural that Severance semi-abandons its sci-fi elements at the end of the series to make a grand statement about choosing to accept those emotions. Or, heartbreakingly, Mark burying those emotions and killing one consciousness to live solely as the other. To paraphrase another theorist on Reddit: Mark will eventually need to understand that he canât just have the good without the bad. However Mark reacts to that realization will determine how Severance ends.
