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Can Cobel Be Trusted? And Other Severance Questions.


Last season, that would have been a definitive “no.” After this week’s visit to Salt’s Neck, however …

What’s a good word for an old company town that has been gutted and bled dry and whose residents inhale ether through dirty rags and where every day appears to be 50 degrees and overcast and windy? Cobel was a Lumon prodigy, the valedictorian of her Eagan-named high school and a Wintertide fellow (more on this below), as we learn from the yearbook stuffed away in the underground shed next to the house where her Kier-skeptic mother died. Put it this way: It says a lot about this show that I heard Cobel talk about working in the factory and saw the yearbook and the thing about her and the Wintertide fellowship — the same one Milchick mentioned Miss Huang was shooting for earlier this season — and my immediate reaction was, “Oh, maybe this is just regular old child labor.”

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