Get the latest gossip

Severance Recap: Unsanctioned Romantic Entanglement


We finally get our girl back, but the vibes are still off thanks to Mark’s integration sickness making him kind of a jerk.

At the top of this episode, we’re treated to an entertaining Tarantino-esque moment in which a worker strolls up a hallway to retrieve medical tools as he casually whistles the melody to “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” by Gordon Lightfoot. He spies the “Hang in There” poster — which, in a very funny twist, features Dylan holding the two switches open during the OTC — and sticks his hand behind it, finding Irv’s drawing of the elevator with directions written on the back. Their petty gripes with his (excellent) vocabulary and paper-clip usage feel like they could have been plucked from Office Space, but Drummond’s largest issue — the calamitous ORTBO and institution of kindness policies that aren’t working — is valid.

Get the Android app

Or read this on VULTURE