"Separation" is a kind of show that begs viewers to set aside every scene and details in search of clues. The "Mystery Box" approach is a tried and real TV formula if it is difficult to pull. But when you get the ZeTeistist on your part, as there is "Severance", the audience hunt for answers creates a unique and attractive viewing experience.

Because of that aspect of the show, many fans may have left their ears at the beginning of "Season" Season 2Episode 5, "Trojan Horse". The episode begins with a new, unnamed character, pushing a trolley on the impeccable corridors of the cut under the Optics and Design Department, where it gives it what seems to be dental tools of some kind. Satisfied, he also moves the cart and the mysterious, wicked lift that Irving (Johnon Thururo) and his out are viewed. All the time, this nameless employee whistles a recognizable melody: "The rubble of Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfut.

Is that special choice of melody notion of what is happening in Lumon? Does it tell us something about what lies above the frightening lift? Maybe, maybe not - but because it's fun, let's talk about it anyway.

Gordon Lightfout was a well -known folk singer and songwriter from Canada, who earned both great commercial success and huge critical praise during his long career. Of all his songs, in 1976 "Edmund Fitzgerald" is probably his most famous. In it, Lightfoot details sinking into the real life of SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a large ship on the lakes, during the 1975 lake Superior's storm. The event quickly became infamous, and because of Latefut's song, it became a huge hit and because of the giant and well -rejected the ship was. All 29 crew members died in the rubble. As he put Lightfoot in his song, "that good ship and true was a bone that should be chewed when it comes early, Gales since November."

Severance Director and producer Ben Stiller is a big fan of Gordon Lightfut and discussed the song's involvement in "Trojan Horse" during the performance of the Yorkyor Times podcast Interview. Asked if the song was holding the keys to decipher the show, Stiller was laughing, saying, "I will say nothing. I leave all the options open. " He, however, noted that his appreciation for the Lightfoot music may be more relevant here than a bigger mystery.

Of course, Ben Stiller says we probably shouldn't read the show by analyzing "Edmund Fitzgerald's demolition", but hey, the show actively encourages speculation, so let's stretch a little. Edmund Fitzgerald primarily delivered iron ore. As a large ship on the lakes, and the largest in the region for more than a decade, it was a central piece of the same medium-American industrial culture that "cut off" from the beginning took aesthetic signs. The city of the snow company where "cutting off" is taking placeOld-style cars, Lumon-all political presence. It returns to a particular era of the American industry.

Looking through those lenses, you could see the involvement of the song as a reference to Lumon's own state. Just as the ship wore a refined iron ore, the cut off employees in macrodati refining are refined ... Macrodates? Something unusual? We still do not know what the "dreaded" numbers mean, but there is certainly a thematic relationship.

It is also worth noting that the obviously super-important file sign (Adam Scott) works on Lumon is called "Cold Port", which also seems to a piece with the theme of Latefut song. Does the melody hold all the answers? Surely not, but it fits well with the rest of the unique style and tone of Severance Season 2.