Season 2 Episode 10: Cold Harbor

Aired: March 21, 2025


Synopsis: Mark forms a shaky alliance in an all-or-nothing play, while the team makes a dangerous last stand.


Directed by: Ben Stiller

Written by: Dan Erickson

  • vaguerant@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    Probably a bit blasphemous to bring up BBC Sherlock in the Severance community, but:

    Watson: Maybe he used the death of her daughter somehow?

    Sherlock: That was ages ago, why would she still be upset?!

    Watson:

    Sherlock: Not good?

    Watson: Bit not good, yeah.

    People are different all over but two years doesn’t seem unreasonable for somebody to still be upset about a loss of a pregnancy. Dr. Mauer has certainly identified it as a sore point for her, since he lied to Gemma about Mark having moved on and had a kid with somebody else, right before he got a chair to the head.

    Additionally, we don’t really know with any certainty how long it has been from Gemma’s perspective given they’ve had her working as Ms. Casey and also testing for hours at a time in multiple rooms, possibly every day. Even when she gets to be her outie self, she’s been in a prolonged traumatic situation of being kidnapped and experimented on, so she probably has limited opportunities to process her previous traumas.

    • danc4498@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, I see all these points, but the show did not convey to us that the loss of her pregnancy was still affecting her this deeply. I would think being kidnapped and tortured (physically, not mentally) would have made her let go of that pain.

      I think maybe if they showed outie Gemma being put in a similar situation and we can judge the difference in reactions, that would have made it more meaningful. As is it just seems like a bunch of way too smart people doing dumb meaningless tests.