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"Severance" has always flirted with the idea of ​​becoming a successor obvious to the throne that has left the "lost"-life experience in a mystery-box for a group of characters thrown in strange circumstances and seems to reveal more questions than answers with every season that passes. Season 2 somehow raised the quality rod even higher Than the first time around, diving deeper into the complex details of the world -class building of this satire in the workplace and makes us fully invested in our quartet of heroes, as we find out more about their inner lives. But the episode 7, titled "Chicai Bardo", can eventually descend as the moment when the creative team took the torch of the "lost" show -show Damon Lindelof and Carlton Kuse and made it officially.

This a lot Welcome development is less for all the unmistakable parallels that the "cut off" shares with "lost" and more about the idea of ​​resurrecting the show's approach to writing television that seemed to disappear in the dust of history, along with the series. A few weeks back, the well -received episode "Woe's Hollow" has brought some famous taste that "lost" fans remember well, Diving on the head in the form of research in Oreubov and surrealism That the best that network television always had to offer during the day. Before that, The closer feeling of the "Trojan horse" It helped to return the focus immediately to our main role of characters, reminding us that we continue to return again and again because of the individuals involved.

But finally, episode 7 went beyond the "north" so far to mix its most valuable strong sides-her traps of the science genre, a deeply dark thread in the heart, and a welcome dose of tragic Loveubos and produce that can be very well lowered.

If you want to evoke "lost", you may go all the way. Director Essesica Lee Ganje (which usually serves as a cinematographer and executive producer of Neeverans) and credited writers Dan Eriksson and Mark Friedman clearly had the same thought, packing the episode of Giles with references and respect in the Castaway series.

The largest and most obvious (and the most unusual for this series) involves the use of retrospectives, of course, to break this narrative trick for the first time in such a significant way. Today's story continues with the unconscious Mark Scout (Adam Scott) after the reintegration procedure goes terribly badly, using this stalemate as a clever excuse to jump forward in the old memories of his previous life with his long -lost wife Gema (Dichen Lachman). At the same time, we get our first real look at Gema as a prisoner in the deepest recesses of Lumon Industries, after somehow surviving their car accident and forced to withstand a medical test battery by scientists in laboratory coats and more rooms that are transferred between various cuts. (If This feels similar to the mysterious Dharma Initiative And the underground opening ever placed by Desmond Humm's Henry Ian Kusik, we get the feeling that this was not accidental.) During the episode, Gagan uses every tool to edit available to connect between dreams caused by coma and escapist memories ... Repeated visual used through "lost".

And, talking about Desmond, there is probably a good reason why "cutting off" viewers can draw ties, probably one of the biggest fan-owned characters in all "lost". The episode during the time "Constant" is at the top of the episode rankings of the most "lost" fans And the different scenes of Mark and Gema's romance are filled with all the painful sincerity that was previously seen between Desmond and Penny Vidor (Sonja Walger). Both performances took great pain to maintain these Love Bowl interests while using that extended separation to make us desperately want to see them again. As with Desmond and Penny, we have to experience the exciting stakes of Mark and Gemema's courtship and the devastating falls of their awkward marriage and their struggles to have children, a slow -moving train that eventually ends up in a tragedy when Gema fails to return.

If there is something that best connects "cutting off" with the "lost", that is the ability of the former to hit viewers with an emotional sanction when they least expect it. During season 2, creator Dan Eriksson and his writing team were not subtle in emphasizing what is the most important thing for our main protagonist: his closest closest closest. For Mark S., his slow romance with Heley R. (Brit Lower) acquires such a narrative meaning that their Lumon bosses understand the two simply will not do any job if they are expelled. As for his work, Mark Scout is fiercely protected by his sister Devon (Enen Tolock) and his overwhelming sadness over his wife Gema's supposed loss is exactly what he leads to take the drastic step to submit the procedure for severance in the first place. Where the "lost" threw a network of incredible links between his ensemble and used it to Build up to the final that referred to why they belonged togetherSeverance distilled it all in an hour of heart attack that ended as a powerful last blow like everyone else in every season.

Not to put too much point on it, but episode 7 is a perfect example of the type of writing that shows how "lost" flared in a nearby week ... but to a great extent it has fallen on the road in the years. On the most famous day of the so -called Prestige TV, shows will often benefit from 20 total episodes per season to take these types of large swings and huge formula departures. In an era where streaming emissions reach any place of nine to 12 episodes to tell their stories, it only makes it even more noticeable that "cutting off" the brakes on his current narrative and instead of focusing on the character focused, focused in full.

Of course, we could focus on pure cosmetic similarities (including the reserved use of that Leo Tolstoy novel "Ivan Ilich's Death", because the "lost" carried his loveube to the philosophy of the sleeve), but that would not "indicate". "Chicai Bardo" is somehow and not -apologetic return And An episode that further strengthens its own unique identity. And that's the best, most unsuitable hour on the TV I've ever seen for years.