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Reading Innocence in the 'Severance' Villains

Reading Innocence in the 'Severance' Villains

These 'victims' of Lumon still have agency.

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Brooke Obie
Feb 16, 2025
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*Spoilers for Severance seasons 1 and 2 and Trigger-Warning for discussion of r-pe*

I’ve been having a ball talking Severance theories with folks on social media every week after each episode. I love that the show asks the audience to think deeply about its premise of a corporation whose employees volunteer for a severance procedure that prevents them fr…

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