Severance exists in an alternate world, a world where Kier Eagan apparently founded a town named after himself, along with Lumon Industries, a massive conglomerate that often seems more like a religion or a cult than a corporation. In order to keep the series feeling like it exists in a world outside our own, there are barely any pop culture references, and there is nothing that makes it seem like these characters exist in the one we know. There are only a few exceptions, like the dentist we saw whistling “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” in Season 2, Episode 5.
Severance Season 2’s latest episode, “The After Hours,” delivered another big pop culture reference at a key moment, and it could reveal a devastating Lumon secret the company is desperate to hide.
