all the parallels between “The After Hours” episode of the twilight zone to severances ep of the identical title and the present as a complete: a thread 🧵 #SEVERANCE pic.twitter.com/zMkgTkWOHq
— paige (@hellynaswife) March 14, 2025
Over on X, person @hellynaswife shared an in-depth breakdown of all of the Easter eggs and references, beginning with Concord Cobel (Patricia Arquette) arriving on the Damona Birthing Retreat with Devon (Jen Tullock). Presumably some kind of code to substantiate Cobel’s seniority, she says, “Miss Marsha White, ninth ground. I’m in search of a gold thimble.” The thread additionally highlights how the eerie Perpetuity Wing and its varied Eagan statues echo the imagery of Marsha on the ninth ground.
The season 1 finale ended with the stunning reveal that Helly R. (Britt Decrease) was the Innie of Helena Eagan, together with her, Mark Scout (Adam Scott), and Irving (John Turturro) briefly having the ability to take over from their Outies due to the time beyond regulation contingency. This was then flipped on its head when it was revealed that Helena has been posing as Helly on the Severed Flooring because the begin of the season, however like The Twilight Zone’s mannequins attending to reside for a month on the surface, may this be teasing one other dramatic escape for the Innies?
Others are taking issues one step additional and assume The Twilight Zone is way more essential to the mythos of Severance than we first thought. The crux of season 2 has been about Mark making an attempt to get again to his spouse, Gemma (Dichen Lachman), who Lumon is presently protecting on the Testing Flooring. Gemma’s Innie was going beneath the guise of Ms. Casey, and on condition that the subsequent episode of The Twilight Zone following “The After Hours” was known as “The Mighty Casey”, Redditors have pointed on the market’s some mind-blowing potential.
That episode follows a robotic known as Casey, who decides to insurgent towards his creator when he’s given a human coronary heart and feelings. The episode after that known as “A World of His Personal” and follows a person whose spouse catches him with one other lady. All of those may have main ramifications for the Mark/Helly/Gemma love triangle and no matter Lumon is doing with the latter on the Testing Flooring.
Lengthy earlier than the episode 9 got here out, Reddit person D_Beats linked Severance to The Twilight Zone and theorized that if the twist is similar, Miss Casey was an Innie first and “Gemma” was her forgetting she was an Innie: “She may very well be an experiment from the very begin which is why they went so far as to pretend her demise and recruit Mark to work for them.” There are some ugly theories right here, and with Devon masquerading as “one among Jame’s,” does the episode verify that Jame Eagan (Michael Siberry) is recurrently impregnating his Severed employees (see them as mannequins) as some kind of twisted plan to maintain his lineage going?
It’s additionally not trying good for Helly, and after her father finds her on the Severed Flooring, she may quickly be taking a visit to Severance’s personal hypothetical ninth ground (the Testing Flooring) she was determined to search out. Both means, the usually grim endings of The Twilight Zone episodes don’t fill us with a lot hope as we head into the Severance season 2 finale.
