#Severance Season 2 Episode 8 Candy Vitriol Recap – Destructoid

For the primary time since earlier within the season, Concord Cobel seems in Severance Season 2 Episode 8 which is titled Candy Vitriol. She’s not solely on this episode, however the episode revolves round her returning to her hometown for some solutions. Let’s dive into Severance Season 2 Episode 8 Candy Vitriol and recap all the things we study on this episode.

Concord Cobel returns dwelling

In Severance Season 2 Episode 8 titled Candy Vitriol, all the episode is completely centered on Concord Cobel, often known as Mrs. Selvig all through Severance season one, as she returns to her hometown. We’re by no means given a reputation of the hometown, however it’s a chilly coastal city that appears extremely just like Newfoundland in Canada. Truthfully, it very effectively may very well be Chilly Harbour, which might open a complete different can of worms, so let’s not get too tinfoil hat right here.

There she meets up with what seems to be a earlier love curiosity or on the very least childhood pal, and explains to him that she is aware of Lumon is watching over the city, so asks for his assist. He agrees and helps her return to the home by which she grew up, the place she claims to be on the lookout for one thing.

She arrives at her dwelling the place her aunt, a religious—and actually, loopy—follower of Kier. We’re speaking like full on non secular cult ranges of following. There, Cobel argues together with her aunt in regards to the passing of her mom, who Cobel says she didn’t even get to see earlier than she handed away. She argues together with her aunt, by which we study quite a bit about Concord Cobel’s childhood.

What we discovered about Concord Cobel in Severance Season 2 Episode 8

Nicely, we truly discovered quite a bit about Ms. Cobel and the way she got here to be part of Lumon. We study that on the younger age of 8, Cobel labored at an Ether manufacturing facility, very like the one by which the unique founder Kier Eagan labored in and the place he met his spouse Imogene.

After a while, across the age of 12, Cobel acquired a Wintertide Fellowship very like Ms. Huang who we had been launched to in Season 2 of Severance, and who has primarily changed Cobel on the Severance ground of Lumon in Kier.

Additionally, a enjoyable reality I need to level out about Wintertide. It’s an anagram for Dieter Twin, which at a look doesn’t matter a lot, nonetheless, we discovered a number of episodes in the past that Kier Eagan had a twin brother named Dieter. Nothing is coincidence on the earth of Severance. Moreover, Dieter Eagan itself is an anagram for AI Generated. Meals for thought.

Severance Season 2 Episode 8 Candy Vitriol ending defined

On the finish of Severance Season 2 Episode 8, Concord Cobel finds what she had been on the lookout for the entire time. A diary of sketches, formulation, and designs that point out that Ms. Cobel is definitely the one who created Severance. That’s proper, Concord Cobel is the particular person behind the creation of Severance together with, in keeping with her, the bottom code, the circuit blueprint, in addition to the time beyond regulation contingency and Glasgow block protocols.

This revelation is in fact large, and explains why Ms. Cobel has such an curiosity in remaining on the Severance ground and understanding how issues are going, regardless of Helena attempting to advertise her to the next place at Lumon. It additionally provides some comedian reduction to the assertion from Helena to Concord that she shouldn’t overstate her contributions to Lumon, seeing as, effectively, she is the creator of Severance, though Jame Eagan has been making an attempt to take credit score for it.

Within the closing second of the episode, Cobel solutions a name from Mark’s sister Devon Scout who asks for her assist and explains to her that Mark is reintegrating. Cobel asks if it’s by the hands of Reghabi, which Devon confirms. Cobel asks to talk to Mark and calls for he “tells her all the things.”

It will seem that, though an unlikely duo, Concord and Mark could also be teaming up within the very close to future to get some solutions, or no less than some revenge, on Lumon.