Holy sh*t. Or as Milchick would say, “the holiest.”

Season 2 episode 7 of Severance is out on Apple TV+ and yowza…we have learned so much about Gemma’s life both pre and post Lumon-abduction. The miscarriage! The imprisonment! The mint green sweatsuit!

Lots, lots to unpack. But first: standing ovation for these writers, who keep spinning the Severance web larger while also answering just enough questions to keep us satiated and trusting. This is smart TV for smart people. (Or so I say, as I admit to having never read Tolstoy.)

Obviously, the biggest deal is the confirmation of what we’ve suspected for a while—that Gemma is alive and well(ish) in the basement, the subject of a psychological experiment to test the “barriers” of severance and see if outies can remember any parts of their severed lives.