Severance Season 2 Finales Musical Moment Has a Surprising Inspiration
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This article contains spoilers for Severance season 2 episode 10.The first season of Apple TV+ sci-fi drama Severance featured no shortage of scenes that seemed designed in a Lumon laboratory to live forever on the internet. None of these moments, however, went more acutely viral than the Macrodata Refinement Teams Music Dance Experience.In the canon of the series, the Music Dance Experience or MDE is a reward that Lumon Industries grants to a refiner upon reaching 75% completion on a file. But really its a reward to us, the audience, who get to see Mr. Milchick (Tramel Tillman) cut a rug to some defiant jazz as the rest of the team sashays awkwardly around him.Given how successful the first MDE outing was, it was all but a certainty that Severance season 2 would seek out another musical arrangement. Well, it took awhile but Cold Harbor, the concluding episode of the season, finally gives Mr. Milchick a chance to cut loose once again.Whats the reward for 100% completion on 25 files? Forget a Music Dance Experience, Lumons got a whole gosh darn marching band for this occasion! Upon completion of his 25th and final file, Mark S. (Adam Scott) is treated to a visit from his floor manager, Milchick. After some uneasy repartee between Milchick and an animatronic Kier Eagan (this show is so weird), the man we now know as Seth calls in the Choreography and Merriment department. In marches a whole parade of trumpeters and trombonists, who blare the Ballad of Ambrose and Gunnel as Milchick conducts them around the MDR floor.As we noted in our breakdown of the season 2 ending, its pretty wild that there has apparently been a whole-ass marching band training somewhere within the walls of Lumons cavernous corporate campus this whole time. Wouldnt that hurt the goats ears? Wont somebody please think of the goats! Regardless, the sudden introduction of a marching band for the finale is keeping with the shows surreal tone. And more importantly, according to series creator Dan Erickson, it just seemed like a fun thing to do.It just felt right, Erickson tells Den of Geek. Part of it was that it was funny to us. Usually, if youre watching a marching band, youre up in bleachers and looking down. The fact that Lumon would bring them in to perform in a building that has a ceiling thats barely tall enough to fit them, we just thought that that was fun.While a marching band stomping around an office seems like a uniquely Severance creation, Erickson points out that the trope has not only been done before, but it was executed in one of the greatest films of all time.Theres a scene from Citizen Kane where a marching band comes in and performs for Charles Foster Kane. Its just so weird and strange. There were a lot of considerations but I dont know what a marching band is a metaphor for necessarily, he says.Though interesting and odd as all hell, Mr. Milchicks introduction of the Choreography and Merriment team is far from the most important reveal of the Severance season 2 finale. Just like the season 1 ending, Cold Harbor is a propulsive, exciting episode of television that concludes on an uncertain note. Given the bloody events of the finale and the Graduate-esque moment of bittersweet happiness Mark and Helly find themselves in, how much more storytelling runway does Severance have? Erickson doesnt provide official estimate of how many more seasons remain but does reveal that their plans for the shows future have tightened up a bit.I think we have a pretty good idea of how many seasons we want to go, which Im not going to say just yet, he reports. Were really trying to be intentional in how we approach this as a whole story, and looking at it in terms of chapters and timing out the different reveals and story beats.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!Depending on how many more seasons Severance goes, we may be looking at a full orchestral music dance experience. All 10 episodes of Severance season 2 are available to stream on Apple TV+ now.
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