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Severance Recap: Eternal Sunshine of the Severed Mind
We finally find out what happened to Gemma in an Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind–inspired episode that flows through Mark’s crashing memories.
And even though the creative inspiration for these sequences seems to come, at least in part, from Michel Gondry’s wondrous direction in that film, Mark’s memories aren’t being erased like Joel Barish’s; quite the opposite, as his Innie life is being added to his Outie’s. She tracks all of her stats every morning, including some sort of weird Scientology-like device that measures her response to the question, “If you were caught in a mudslide, would you be more afraid of suffocating or drowning?” Her nurse, played by ’90s icon Sandra Bernhard, shepherds her through her hellish days. With Lumon’s endless white hallways and Mark’s stark condo, Severance has built its world upon the idea of eerie and disorienting liminal spaces providing a platform for potential metamorphosis.
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