Severance‘s Season 2 premiere launched viewers to one of many present’s strangest new characters: Miss Huang (Sarah Bock), the Severed flooring’s new, teenaged deputy supervisor.
Seeing a personality this younger on the coronary heart of Lumon Industries instantly set off alarm bells in Severance followers’ heads, particularly when Miss Huang proved to be as coldly managerial — and admittedly, uncanny — as Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) himself. In spite of everything, what might a toddler probably be doing at Lumon? And the way is she already so purchased into the corporate’s ethos?
Theories about Miss Huang’s true identification cropped up throughout social media. One fan concept means that Miss Huang is a toddler who died in a automotive crash — maybe throughout her prior stint as a crossing guard? — and was then resurrected by Lumon. Bock revealed in an interview with ELLE {that a} stranger DMed her about Miss Huang being a robotic.
Nonetheless, Lumon Industries’ LinkedIn web page — which has existed since Season 1 — could have simply revealed Miss Huang’s entire deal. And whereas it isn’t as far-fetched as, say, resurrection, it nonetheless has devastating implications for Severance‘s worldbuilding.
On Jan. 20, Lumon Industries celebrated Miss Huang’s hiring with a put up saying, “Felicitations are in order for this quarter’s Wintertide Fellow: Ms. Huang. Her green outlook is precisely what Lumon aims to cultivate as an organization. She will be invaluable on our severed floor.”
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Moreover the skin-crawling company language, two phrases stick out right here: Wintertide Fellow, which seems like Lumon-speak for “winter quarter intern.” The time period “fellow” additionally pops up in a Lumon Administration Program video launched on the LinkedIn web page on Jan. 21, by which Mr. Milchick additionally refers to Miss Huang as a “fellow in training.”
So perhaps Miss Huang is not a Lumon experiment. Possibly she’s merely an adolescent with an internship. No robots, no resurrection, simply (seemingly unpaid) youngster labor. Frankly, that is sinister sufficient in itself, particularly contemplating what it would imply for Severance‘s wider world.
Again in Season 1, Severance revealed that Concord Cobel (Patricia Arquette) had a shrine to Kier Eagan. On it was a photograph from her time on the Myrtle Eagan Faculty for Women, an expertise which seemingly indoctrinated her into the cult of Kier and set her up for a life serving the Eagans at Lumon. Maybe Miss Huang comes from the same faculty or background, and he or she can also be being primed for a life as a company Lumon cog.
With that in thoughts, Miss Huang’s presence in Severance Season 2 is much less a thriller for the viewers to crack and extra a disheartening reminder of Lumon’s insidious mechanisms of management. Severance is one such mechanism, however so is the Eagan school-to-Lumon job pipeline we have seen with Cobel and certain Miss Huang. Now, with Miss Huang, we could possibly be a future Cobel or Milchick kind — and that is a daunting thought.
Severance Season 2 is now streaming on Apple TV+, with a brand new episode each Friday.
