The craziest Severance easter eggs and weird details from *that* episode you definitely missed

Harmony Cobel. Truly the most fascinating character in the entirety of Severance – a devout Lumon diehard having a crisis of faith anchored by the godly performance of Patricia Arquette. Season two of the show has sorely missed Cobel and her manic ways, and after a drought without her (we haven’t seen her since ep three) Harmony Cobel got her own dedicated Severance episode. The backstory for Cobel is fascinating but extremely complicated. Because the episode moved a mile a minute and had a short run time, there might have been stuff you definitely missed. Here’s a little rundown of points raised in the Severance Cobel episode explained – alongside some easter eggs too.

What’s gone on with the town of Salt’s Neck

We learn and see the hauntingly gorgeous town of Salt’s Neck. Here, Lumon has ruined the town and put the population on an addiction to ether. Where they’re either taking it or dealing it. Harmony Cobel is from here and became a Lumon protege. Severance creator Dan Erikson explained on the Inside the Episode podcast “So this is the episode where Harmony Cobel goes home. This is where she got her start.

“Lumon pulled a lot of natural resources from this place, one of those being the people. I think Cobel is one of several promising people who were sort of co-opted and taken away from this town and it was left gutted.”

Who was Sissy?

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Sissy is Harmony Cobel’s aunt, who she shares a lot of friction with. Sissy is obsessed with Lumon and worships Kier, and when Harmony won the Wintertide Fellowship she got to go and study at a Lumon school and Sissy was looking after Harmony’s mother. Her sister too. Harmony thinks that Sissy ripped out her mother’s breathing tube – but they both have a conflicting report on that.

Did anyone else get major Longlegs vibes from the aesthetic and the family dynamic between Cobel and Sissy?

What was that big twist all about?

It was revealed as a major twist bombshell that Cobel personally invented the Severance chip and process and Kier and Lumon took her ideas and her glory. Sissy tried burning the original designs so that Cobel can’t take any glory away from Kier.

Truly a wild twist. And kind of changes everything going forward – if Harmony goes to help Mark she can give insane insight into reintegration.

The Nines!?

We’ve heard of Lumon’s four tempers before: Woe, Malice, Dread and Frolic. But Sissy informed of the Nines via a cross-stitch artwork hanging eerily in her house. They are as follows

“I was blind till you gave me Vision/

“I was languid till you gave me Verve/

“I was simple till you gave me Wit/

“I was peevish till you gave me Cheer/

“I was vain till you gave me Humility/

“I was cruel till you gave me Benevolence/

“I was gawkish till you gave me Nimbleness/

“I was false till you gave me Probity/

“I was dim till you gave me Wiles/

“I was Me till you gave me You.”

It’s all very bizarre.

You can have a closer look at Sissy’s shrine here

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James LeGros, who played Cobel’s friend Hampton, posted a series of behind the scenes pictures from the Severance Cobel back story episode on his Instagram and there’s a great in-depth look at the shrine to Lumon in Sissy’s house. Refer back to it and see how many hidden details are there.

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