Lumon Is Listening: A Severance Podcast

Matt S. and Laci R. provide a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 10 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "Cold Harbor." And in the end, it was all about a baby crib. I don't know how much more to say there is than that, but we manage to break down the exciting and often hilarious season finale of Severance . But this is not the finale of Lumon Is Listening , for we shall return next week...

Matt S. and Laci R. provide a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 9 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "The After Hours." Well folks, things are happening. Coming to a head, you might say. First, we wish a tearful bon voyage to Miss Huang as she graduates from the Wintertide Fellowship. And we send her off with the seriousness the situation calls for: with a song. Then we check in on al...

Laci R. is back from her absence, and she has many thoughts on "Sweet Vitriol"... both the episode of Severance and the episode of Lumon Is Listening that Matt and John D. hosted while she was gone. Does she have a kinder opinion of "Sweet Vitriol"? Does she see things a little differently. We unpack the episode some more, and Matt confesses he is feeling slightly more charitably toward it than he...

Here for you now, a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 8 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "Sweet Vitriol." With Laci R.'s outie missing, management has sent in a replacement in the form of John D., from the Utica branch. Matt and John bond over their shared love of huffing ether out of paper bags, and then talk about this extremely frustrating episode of Severance in which we follow...

Laci R. and Matt S. provide a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 7 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "Chikhai Bardo." So, we finally get some answers. Kind of. Unfortunately, it comes in the form of that most dreaded trope that every prestige TV series engages in around the seventh episode of a season: the flashback episode! At the same time, the show has never been more adversarial t...

Laci R. and Matt S. provide a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 6 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "Attila." This episode turns inward and focuses on our four heroes and their... (record scratch) love lives? Actually it's a fascinating and deeply moving look at what it means to be a human, what it means to love, the different forms love can take, and that age-old question of whether...

Matt S. and Laci R. provide a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 5 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "Trojan's Horse." Helly R. is rightfully restored to her body and mind, Dylan G. is in mourning, Mark S. is being a complete asshole, and Ricken deserves to be catapulted into the sun. It's another wild episode of Severance ! "Trojan's Horse" was directed by Sam Donovan and written by...

Matt S. and Laci R. provide a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 4 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "Woe's Hollow." Something weird is going on here, folks! All of a sudden our Severed Foursome finds themselves in... Siberia?? Or something. And what's going on with Helly? Aw man, were the people on the internet actually right? That can't be good. Also, there's a lot of discussion abo...

Matt S. and Laci R. provide a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 3 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "Who Is Alive?" Aside from the usual commentary on the exploitation of workers, the importance of collective action and solidarity, and the fun espionage angle, the show seems to have a lot of criticism for the self-help industry. Learn more about how the self-help industry serves the...

Matt S. and Laci R. provide a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 2 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "Goodbye Mrs. Selvig." It's such a joy seeing Patricia Arquette and hearing Ms. Cobel's weird voice again, as she moans things like, "I welcome your contrition." And how great is Britt Lower as the evil version of Helly? "Goodbye Mrs. Selvig" was directed by Sam Donovan and written by...

Matt S. and Laci R. provide a spoiler-filled recap and analysis of season 2, episode 1 of Apple TV+'s Severance : "Hello Ms. Cobel." After a three-year absence, the series described by one of our hosts as "the only good show on television" returns... and it does not disappoint. Although it teases you along the way by hinting at the annoying directions it could go. How incredible is the stop-motion...