“I was on an elevator once and a group of people walked in. Everyone’s sort of keeping to themselves, as you do on a public elevator. And then someone just said ‘We’re all going to be different when we leave this elevator.’ I thought it was such a clever, subtle way of letting me know that they’d seen the show.”
That right there is first ballot Fandom Hall of Fame stuff. Anonymous Severance elevator individual, please take your place in the annals of fan history alongside Jack Nicholson courtside at Lakers games and Stephen Colbert reciting Lord of the Rings facts. Elevators, of course, loom large on Severance. They are the terrifying liminal spaces between the outtie world and the innie world, as the severance chip takes hold immediately upon entering or exiting one. A fan having the wherewithal to make that association and share it with Lower on the spot speaks to Severance fans’ highly-engaged nature.
“I think our fans are like that,” Lower says. “They’ve given the show a new life by engaging with it in the way that they do. It’s a conversation that the creators, the cast, and the crew of the show all appreciate.”
“They’re completing the show,” Irving B. actor John Turturro adds. “They’re completing it with all their theories, with all their reactions. That’s the kind of show that it is. It’s about discovery and asking questions.”
Thankfully, there’s plenty more discovery (and elevators) to come.
The first episode of Severance season 2 premieres Friday, January 17 on Apple TV+. New episodes debut on Fridays, culminating with the finale on March 21.
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