#What’s Ether in Severance Season 2 Episode 8 – Destructoid

In Severance Season 2 Episode 8 Candy Vitriol we get lots of references to Ether, which has additionally been referenced all through each Season 1 and Season 2. Here’s what we find out about Ether and what it’s in Severance and its significance in Season 2 Episode 8.

What’s Ether?

In Severance, Ether greater than possible refers to an precise natural chemical compound referred to as Diethyl Ether, or just Ether for brief. It’s a colourless and “sickly candy” smelling liquid that’s extremely unstable and flammable. It was first synthesized in 1540 however turned the primary normal anesthetic within the 1840s till the Nineteen Sixties when it was changed by safer and simpler anesthetics like Halothane and Sevoflurane.

Diethyl Ether additionally has each anesthetic and euphoric results, which may result in habit, which we see from Concord Cobel’s childhood pal in Severance Season 2 Episode 8 Candy Vitriol, who seems to be hooked on it.

On this planet of Severance, Ether can be generally referenced, because it’s mentioned that Lumon founder Kier Eagan met his spouse Imogene Eagan at an Ether Manufacturing unit the place Kier was a stewman and Imogene was a swab lady.

As for within the episode Candy Vitriol, Concord Cobel talks about working at an Ether Manufacturing unit on the age of 8 earlier than she left for a Wintertide Fellowship on the age of 12. It’s additionally the drug that each Concord Cobel and her childhood pal take a huff of whereas sitting in her mom’s room in Severance Season 2 Episode 8.

How does Ether tie into Severance?

In a approach, using Ether earlier than the Severance program existed was an early type of Severance. Lumon has clearly lengthy been an industrious firm, however we now know additionally they closely used youngster labor. It’s fairly potential that Ether was used to dissociate individuals from their actuality, which is without doubt one of the commonest makes use of of Severance.

Curiously, there may even be a deeper connection of Ether to what’s occurring with Lumon and the world of Severance. In Season 2 Episode 4 titled ORTBO, Milchick leads the MDR innies to search out Kier’s diary, which talks about Kier Eagan’s twin brother Dieter Eagan, which till that point has by no means been referenced and isn’t listed within the official Eagan lineage that Lumon workers are informed about.

Within the diary it talks about Dieter doing an outlandish act in entrance of his brother, Kier, and “spilling his lineage upon the soil.” Afterward, Kier claims that his brother melted grotesquely in entrance of him after this act, seemingly punished for his “wantonness”.

The relation right here comes from the identify Dieter, which may come from a hybridized model of Diethyl Ether. In that case, that might imply that Dieter wasn’t truly a twin brother of Kier Eagan, however relatively a type of himself when below the anesthetic and euphoric results of utilizing the substance.