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Episode Date: March 21, 2025

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so this entire video is going to be nothing but breaking down all of the hidden clues in details. Unfortunately, we will not have time to check in with the screencrush video analysis team, but I do want to thank them so much for joining me for some great discussions throughout this season. So we finally know what the scary numbers truly mean. We know what Lumen really wanted out of Mark and Jimma, and we know how and why, Lumen likely caused Gemma's miscarriage. We also have to talk about the attempted goat sacrifice to Kier and the presence of Kier himself in this finale. And to help me better answer that question, I have a special treat for you guys. In our ending Explain video, not this video, but in a different

one, I will be interviewing Mark Geller Kier Egan himself to get his thoughts on the finale and ask my own personal burning questions, such as Is Kira Live in that animatronic dummy? Now in the fruit of your labors. But in this breakdown, I'm going to talk about it as well, because I have some theories I want to share with you all. And hey, before we get rolling on the breakdown, I do want to share with you guys some of our great severance-inspired merch on screencrushmerch.com. We've got the Praise Kier Sticky Note shirt, the hang in there, and tame thy tempers in the Bohemian Rhapsody pose. And the I completed Cold Harbor and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. Be sure to get your merch now because these designs will be leaving the store soon, drifting into the eternal.

darkness. So, this episode begins with the series intro instead of giving us a cold open like previous episodes. It's almost as if once this episode started, they didn't want to interrupt the flow of the story that swells and swells like a balloon being filled with air, leading to its eventual pop. Now, this slow crawl storytelling that has been used throughout the entire series, and in this episode's unfolding of events as tensions run higher and higher all the way to that bitter finish. So in the season one finale, Mark yells,

Mark yells. She's alive! And that is right where we pick up with this season finale. Do you remember the last thing that you said to me? She's alive. So Ms. Cobell asks Mark if he has completed Cold Harbor, and she seems happy to hear that he hasn't, and that Gemma is still alive. Now, while Miss Cobell does seemingly have a bit of a face turn, I saw your comments, I got

it right this time, thank you. Part of me does believe that her happiness that Jimma is alive and that Mark hasn't completed Cold Harbor is more so a selfish happy because that means that she can still rob Lumen of their big celebratory day and the completion of Cold Harbor. Granted, Cobell does later say that she cares for Mark, but you have to wonder how much of that is genuine care or more so of a fascination being that Mark and Jimma are essentially lab rats for Cobell's life's work, the severance procedure. So you'll notice that Ms. Cobell refers to Jimma as Miss Casey because that's the name that Mark S knows her by.

And we then get a correction from Devin that her name is Jemma. This ties into the lingering theme of Devin and Mark's Audi, despite their good intentions and remorse for Ennis, they're still prioritizing their own selfish interests, and whether they want to admit it or not, they view the outies as more human than the Ennis. This entire sequence of Devin, Mark, and Cobell trying to convince Mark S to do what they want him to do is a very selfish sequence. Cobel has our own selfish reasonings. Devin and Mark have their own selfish reasonings.

And as we'll discuss here in a minute, Mark S sees right through it. I think that I disappear along with every any down there. And look, I want to be clear, I'm not judging Devin or Mark for this. It's only human to prioritize your own self-interest. So of course, their main objective is getting Jimma back. Now, as Cobel begins to tell Mark about the testing floor hallway, he mentions Irv's drawing. Now, Cobell seems caught off guard by this revelation,

and we have to remember that this drawing done by Irving was actually based on his Audi's painting, which he saw in the season one finale during the overtime contingency. That season one finale featured a theme of teamwork, sacrifice, and worker solidarity, themes that we see in this finale as well. This time, teamwork between the innings and the outies with a dose of course of betrayal. You betrayer! Now, back on the severed floor, we catch up with Heli, where we last saw her in the previous episode coming face to face with her Audi's father, Jame Egan. And she says what we're all thinking.

God, you're fucking weird. We get another callback to the season one finale when Jane finally confronts Heli about her gala speech, essentially shitting on Lumen. And we can see that James actually respects Heli, and he sees in her his young rebellious daughter as well as Kier. So in the previous episode, when Jane approaches Heli, he says, And this is because he views her as his daughter's past self before she's, she lost her inner gear. I've talked about before how Ennis essentially seem to be these clean

slates free of knowledge. They're blissfully ignorant. When we see flashbacks of Mark in episode seven before he lost Gemma, he seemed more like his iny than the howdy that we know who is living in grief. Now, the same is true for Dylan. Gretchen says that Dylan's iny reminds her of how Dylan was before. The innies are essentially the outies before they underwent some form of pain, whether that pain be physical, a loss of ambition, or a loss of a loved one. Or like with Helly, Helly R, apparently, according to James Egan, reminds him of Helena's younger self. James sees in Helly the rebellious take charge, don't take shit from anyone tendencies that he admires, and he wants to see in his successor qualities that he views as qualities of gear.

Helena, however, is too submissive, subservient, and too eager to please. But the reason that she is that way is because her father made her that way. He has stomped out of her every bit of individuality and self-worth that she ever had. He has turned her into a corporate robot with the sole purpose of following in her father's footsteps. So in her father's attempts at making her a worthy successor, he stomped out of her the very things that would make her more like Keir. Kier bowed to no one, while Jame made Helena bowed to him. Jame also says that he doesn't love his daughter, showing us what we could have already. safely assumed that being that Helena had a shit childhood that robbed her of her tempers.

Keir, Lumen, and Cold Harbor are all about emotions, your principles, your tempers, your feelings, and how those bring you closer to Keir. So, Jame has only himself to blame for Helena not being the heir that he wants her to be. And his admiration for the rebelliousness of Helly R and his vision of Keir within her could be about to bite him in the ass or result in the very thing he wants. Helly are taking over Lumen and becoming the air that he's been looking for. So in order for Helly and Mark to have the life they want, Helly stepping into the role of Lumen CEO may be their only path for survival. And they could be falling into the hand of James' grand plan.

Then again, that's just a theory because Home Dude didn't seem too happy there at the end. So anyway, back to this standoff between Helly and James, I was almost certain that Helly would stab him in the neck with that pin, but for some reason she didn't. I guess that could simply be because she's a decent person and doesn't want to take a life, despite him being an evil egan, but it's also possible that this is yet another piece of evidence that the severance barriers are not holding 100%, and that deep down, she can't kill him because she has a love for him as her father.

Now, I loved this line from Helly about the hell that the Eagans have created. You and your family created hell and you're going to burn in it. I have been saying since the first episode of this season that I think Lumen is meant to represent hell, specifically the nine circles of hell, layers and layers of hell that go deeper and deeper until arriving at the true evil at the bottom, the devil, or in this case, the board, which I think is Keir and all of the other past Lumen CEOs. Now, this also ties into the Ernest Hemingway iceberg theory, which is teased by the iceberg picture in Milchek's office and how the truth to the greater mystery of a story

becomes more and more clear, yet simultaneously complex, the deeper you go. Hey, wait a second, did you just say the board is Keir and all the other Lumen CEOs? But all those guys are dead. Well, Doug, after this episode, I think it's pretty clear that a popular fan theory is true. The consciousness of Kier and all of the former CEOs are living on a literal board, a circuit board, that is. We finally got confirmation that the numbers on the MDR screens are the building blocks of a person's mind in digital form, lines of code that can be interpreted by a computer, meaning that the mind of Kier and every Lumen CEO, which keep in mind they were all Egan's, could have been restored via a process like,

macro data refinement and the mind of Keer could live on meaning that the voice we hear from the board box in season one and the voice we're hearing from this mannequin in this episode could actually be Keir Egan himself and hey i mean they did name the previous episode after a twilight zone episode where the mannequins are conscious now we're going to dive a little deeper into that discussion later in the video when we get to that scene as well as in our ending explain video where I'll be interviewing Kier himself, Mark Geller. So back at the birthing cabin, Mark asks, What happens to us?

And look, I love Devin and I love how kind she has been to Mark S and how she seems to genuinely care about his well-being, but it's clear that she and Mark's outy hadn't stopped to think about the implications of this mission and the outcome for the innies. And Christ, Mark just looks so innocent and pitiful in this moment, almost childlike. We then get the long-awaited meeting between Mark Scout and Mark Mark S. That I am so sorry.

Guys, I have talked a lot about how impressive the cast is, especially Brit Lauer when it comes to portraying their inies and outies so differently, and it is super impressive how this show has managed to make us, the viewer, view these characters as completely separate characters, yet simultaneously one. And I love how in this scene we got to see Adam Scott have this dialogue with himself, and it put on full display just how different these two marks are. even in their speaking patterns and tone. Yet, we also see them deep down they are just alike,

especially when it comes to their tempers. I think that I disappear along with every any down there. What do you want from me? And guys, I just really loved how this conversation between the two was edited. Just as the back and forth of walking in and out of the cabin was about to get a little redundant, they changed the editing style and sped it up.

And it felt very conversational, and it was just super well done. done. Okay, so in the first episode of this season, we see Lumen completely revamp its workspace, apologizing for their mistreatment of the NEs, and embracing reforms to make their time at work more pleasant and fulfilling. Now, this is, of course, all self-serving bullshit that Lumen is doing for the sole purpose of manipulating the MDR team and convincing them to stay and do the mysterious work so that Mark as will complete Colt Harbor. They're not actually sorry. They don't actually care about the NIE's well-being, and that's what we're

seeing mirrored here with Mark and Mark's conversation. Outy Mark is apologizing for his mistreatment of his any, creating him to be a prisoner and saying that he thought he would be happy. Luma told me you'd be happy. Outie Mark is even offering any mark perks like a shared life if any mark just agrees to help him save Gemma. Now like Lumen, howdy Mark is offering any mark whatever he thinks he can offer him to make him agree to help him. The same way Lumen offered all of these forms to get Cold Harbor completed. Mark S is seeing through this because he has been through this exact same thing with Lumen, and he's probably right not to trust Audi Mark. And look, I'm not trying to shit on Audi Mark. He's been through hell. And look, I'd do anything,

anything to get my wife back as well. But Devin makes it pretty clear that Audi Mark isn't actually intending on following through with these promises. Well, he's not wrong, right? Now, this whole reintegration thing is interesting. They speak of recoupling memories. And I've often referred to reintegration as probably feeling like when you wake up from a wild dream and all of a sudden you become aware again of your own reality and that that dream that seemed so real you now see it for what it is just a dream the same could be true for reintegration the two lives and their memories begin to feel like they were just always there but mark as fears that

his baby consciousness that's only like two years old will be dwarfed by the more developed consciousness that is outy mark and that despite his memories and feelings and experience is becoming part of Audi Mark's mind, I think Marks fears that his consciousness may simply become a mere memory and not the consciousness that is at the wheel. I think Mark S fears that he would still be destined for eternal darkness. But I assume that that's something we will get clarification on in the next season. Honestly, I think they should just go the substance route. I don't know if all of you guys have seen the substance, but in that movie we see the two different versions of the same character,

take turns a week at a time, getting to be present in the world, I think that's a way that perhaps they could solve this whole issue. Granted, that would be them committing to only having half a life, you know, cutting their conscious experience of life and half. But I mean, I guess that's kind of what he asked for when he got severed. So anyway, we hear Audi Mark talk about how he started showing up to work drunk after losing Gemma and that he lost his job because of it. He also talks about how he started putting all of Gemma's stuff in the basement because it was easier to pretend she never existed. You'll remember that it was in Mark's basement where Ms. Covell found this candle of Gemma's, and she even brought it back to the office and had Miss Casey light it during Mark's

final wellness session with her. This was yet another test to see if the barrier between the two was holding. Now, this line about him pretending that Gemma never existed is exactly what Mark was hoping to achieve with the severance procedure. Those were eight hours of the day that he didn't have to be conscious and aware of his grief, and he can make a living while doing it. Mark says, whatever is protecting you from that pain. And this is exactly what Lumen seems to be targeting with the creation of the severance chip. Not only are they using it to create an obedient workforce and marketing it as a way for people to never have to experience a hard day's work while still learning a paycheck,

but it's clear that from the tests on Gemma that they are also looking to market severance as a way to not to have to undergo any unpleasant experience, such as writing a shit ton of thank you letters, going to the dentist, flying on a plane, or mourning the loss of a loved one. Remember, in the season one finale, we saw a gala that was intended to market the severance chip, Lumen's latest innovation. And Mark's line about protecting any mark

and giving him a life of happiness is exactly the type of phrasing that I would expect to hear from Lumen in their future marketing of the severance chip, a promise to remove things like pain and sadness from every aspect of your life, offering nothing but happiness, giving you the ability to erase traumatic memories.

And this, of course, ties into the Doctrine of Kier and the lines the showrunners are drawing between a belief in Kier and a belief in a deity and an afterlife, no pain or sadness, and only happiness and joy. And that is exactly what Lumen is trying to provide with the severed chip, blissful ignorance, ignorance of all the unpleasantries in life, creating a life where you are only conscious of the good things. Lumen's severance procedure is Kier's way of essentially making him into this godlike. like deity that he aspires to be. Kier, via Lumen, is using the severance procedure to bring that eternal joy of the afterlife to the living realm, making it to where the followers of Kier don't have to endure pain in this realm or in the next. The next?

Well, the next step in his grand plan to be this loving creator will be using Kobel's and Lumen's tangibilization of consciousness, the building blocks of a mind, making it to where they can also offer immortality, and together that will provide the world. with eternal joy. A grateful universe. Born out of blood. They'll never know it. This would also rid the world of the fear of death.

It's likely that Lumen has created an afterlife of their own for followers of Kier. Following the death of their earthly vessel, they are guided to join Kier, likely as an artificial intelligence of their own mind. That was created the same way we've seen consciousnesses created in NDR. Now, we've talked about how Ennis, like Mark and Dillon, are bliss. ignorant to their pain and hardships in the Audi world. Well, at least they were. But it would appear that Lumen's ultimate goal is to provide a service that rids the world of all pain, allowing for everyone to just live in blissful ignorance, such as if you go through the pain of a miscarriage,

Lumen can make that grief go away by making you not remember that it ever happened. But let's be clear, the way in which they are achieving this blissful ignorance is by torturing others. We're seeing like 25 Gimas live a miserable existence. just so one can live in bliss. So I tell you all of this to point out why Mark S is distrustful of his Audi, because it's his Audi who put him there. He also knows that his beloved Helly's Audi is an evil Egan, and Mark's Audi is sounding just like Lumen, and Mark's Audi really shits the bed when he gets Helly's name wrong and

refers to her as... I think her any names Hellenie. This is a direct parallel to when Helena was trying to manipulate Mark, in that diner earlier in the season, and she slips up and calls Gemma by the wrong name, showing that she doesn't actually give a damn about them. And I know you've already been through so much with losing her wife and all.

Hannah. Her saying the wrong name is what snapped Mark out of her gaze and what pushed him to go through with the reintegration procedure. And we're seeing the same thing happen here. Mark's Audi is trying to manipulate Mark S to do what he wants. And Mark E.

S was pretty receptive until Mark's Audi gets Helly's name wrong, directly paralleling Helena getting Gemma's name wrong. And this is what pushes Mark S over the edge into not trusting his Audi. And that, of course, sets us up for the ending of the episode. Okay, so Winkgo Bell is telling Mark about the numbers and how they represent tempers. Woe, Frolick, Dread, and Malice, we can see the dancing tempers from Dylan's Waffle Party in season one. She says that the clusters are tempers, meaning that this cluster of numbers that the refiners grouped together with the mouse cursor, they represent one temper.

And we see the refiner drop that cluster of numbers into the bin of the corresponding temper, which, as we've noted before, are abbreviated with the four tempers. But this is the first time they've actually acknowledged that fact in the show. Cobell says, She's an Egan. You're nothing to them. I don't believe you. And they've discard you like a skinnus.

And this is exactly how Cobell has been feeling all season. She thought the Eagans cared about her, but they discarded her once she served her purpose. Cobel realized that despite her lifelong dedication to the company, she meant nothing to them. And did you guys catch that little skin mask line? I don't believe you. And they've discard you like a skin mask. I'm wondering if that's why these guys that I've been calling 3D printed actually looks so weird. Maybe they are the watchers that we've seen on the testing floor who already share a similar physical appearance with the MDR team.

Maybe they are wearing like a 3D printed skin mask. mask. Why? I don't know. But I do think I know why she says this. I care for you. Cobell is the creator of the severance procedure. So in a way, Mark S is her creation.

She may have even done the MDR work needed to create his Ennis consciousness. So perhaps that is why she is so obsessed with Mark and why she cares for him. She views him as her own. So Mark storms out of the cabin and we get this awesome transition where he shows right back up at Lund. And this is one of the first times we actually got to see what this transition looks like for an iny. I've often wondered if it's possible for an iny to dream while they're dormant. But there's never really been any mention of that. And at the opening of the season, when we see Mark arrive back on the severed floor,

it's clear that from his perspective, he was just at his sister's house screaming, she's alive. Now, when Mark steps out of the elevator, we see this new mural hanging in the place of the former Kier Parden painting. On this mural, we see the same waterfall from Woz Hollow, and at the top of the waterfall, we can see all of the Lumen CEOs with Helena and the center, and below them we see everyone else symbolizing not only the severed floor, but the hierarchy of power. Here we can see Mark, and his face is reminiscent of a religious renaissance painting of Christ, and he has his hand in the air like he is praising God. Here we can see Dylan, Helley, Devin, Ricken, Irving, Miss Cobell, Burt, Petey, Felicia, Elizabeth,

Gwendolyn Y, Mark W, Dario R, Rickens' friends from Season 1, Rebecca, and Mr. and Mrs. Backstrom. On the other side, we've got the four tempers, woe, frolic, dread, and malice. We have the creepy clone watcher people, likely wearing their 3D printed skin masks. And yes, that means that this guy lurking behind Mark was likely a watcher. We have the mammalians, which I'm probably mispronouncing, my apologies. We've got the dude and the goat get up. And of course, Lorne, who later saves Mark from Mr. Drummond in an absolute badass fight scene. We also, of course, have Natalie, Mr. Grainer, Mr. Milchick, Miss Wong, and Miss Casey.

And you'll notice that this portrait is called the exalted victory of Cold Harbor. So as Mark makes his way to MDR, we see him greeted by a Kear mannequin, and it is animatronic, just like Gwendolyn mentioned in episode one. What's your perpetuity wing like? Do the Egan's move? Uh, no. Hmm. Ours are animatronic.

In this card, we can see a cut out of a waffle, just like that of the Waffle Party perk, and it says love Mr. Milchick, reminiscent of Keir saying, When Heli completed her first file. So when Gemma opens her closet to find today's wardrobe, she sees that it is the same coat from when she was taken by Lumen, the night that she supposedly died, and this reveal startles her. So in the previous episode, Dylan put in a resignation request, and here we're seeing his Audi's response.

And I loved how this response letter shows us just how much alike these two Dylan's are. Point one, fuck you. Your actions with her were deeply indecorous. Careful using those big words still and Mr. Drummond won't like it, and I guess Keir won't like it either. I, you're verbose. We talked about in our previous episode how Lumen's problem with Milchek using big words is tied to the racist background of Lumen and Keir,

such as the blackface paintings and now they're beef with a black man daring to use a big word and how that makes the Egan's feel intellectually inferior. Apologize for the word. Sorry. Apologize for the word. Seeing Kier make this same jab at Milchick, and that look that Milchick gave him was just so well done. And it ties into my theory about Kier's consciousness being in that mannequin, a theory that I'll discuss in my conversation with Mark Geller, Kier himself, in our ending Explain video. So when the band from yet another Lumen department, choreography, and merriment arrives, they are playing the same song that we heard Miss Kobel sing in season one.

Kear, chosen one key. When James sits down in the small office, we see this frame picture of Keir, and the voice coming from the computer is the director of this episode, Ben Stiller. Welcome, Mr. Egan. The efficacy test will begin shortly. James is watching the room with the crib where Gemma will be completing the efficacy test, the final test, Cold Harbor, to see if the severance procedure will produce the desired and intended result.

Milchick says, Let's keep the Mark S. Love going with a ballad of Ambrose and Gunnell. A reference to the second Lumen CEO, Ambrose Egan, and a reference to Gunnell Egan, whose name we heard mentioned here in the previous episode. Your bed will be moved from your parents home to the Gunnell-Egan Empathy Center in Svalbard. And guys, this literal song and dance is the perfect physical representation of Lumen's manipulative bullshit. And Mark and Heli are seeing right through it. And I loved when Heli says that she will see Mark at the equator, a call back to earlier in the episode when

she says that she has been trying to think of other place names besides Delaware, Delaware being the place that she named here when she first came into being in season one in her survey with Mark. Please name any U.S. state or territory first that comes to mine. I don't know, Delaware. Now, not only does her ability to think of other place names play into the theme of the severance chip, not holding that barrier, but there's also the significance of the equator representing a halfway point, which could be meant to represent compromise. And the equator is the dividing line between essentially the top and bottom of the globe, just like there is the dividing line between the surface and the severed floor.

And of course, that dividing line between an any and an outy. So we get the return of the Dillam War Cry. We first heard this war cry in another physical altercation between Dylan and Mr. Milchick here in season one, and then again in the season one finale. So when the nurse escorts Gemma to the Cold Harbor room, we can see her finger is bloodstained from the mini pricks that she has endured at every door she sent Gemma through. In the room, we see the baby crib that we saw Mark attempting to take apart here in episode seven, and this final test is meant to push the severance chip to its limits by making Gemma go through a process

that her conscious self would be grief-stricken by. And I guess when she, was done, they planned to kill her? This beast will be entombed with a cherished woman whose spirit it must guide to Keir's door. We have always known that the goats were going to have something to do with sacrifice. I mean, the writing was on the wall. Literally. We have to remember that despite Lumen being the science fiction bad guys, there's also

the cult aspect of their villainy. Now, I think this process of a sacrifice to Keir is symbolic, and I think that they know that to a degree. I don't think Drummond actually thinks that this goat's sacrifice is going to be like a spirit guide to take Jimas consciousness to be with Kier in some type of metaphysical afterlife. I think this is actually just ceremonial and a bit of a loyalty test for Kier's followers. And that the actual transition of Jimma's consciousness to go be with Kier will actually be those building blocks of her mind in the form of code, which I guess would then

be uploaded to the matrix to be with Kier's reconstructed mind as well. So we see Mark trying to kick in this floor to go down to the testing floor. And that is parallel. by Milchick trying to kick this vending machine out of the doorway to stop him. So when Drummond hears Mark, he goes out there and he starts beating him up, and then Mark bites him just like Dylan did Milchick. Now, I've talked a lot this season about how this series is about worker solidarity, and we get a great line from Helly here that sends that theme home. They give us half a life and think we won't fight for it.

So when Mark's Scout wakes up, he accidentally shoots Drummond, and boohoo, no tears for Drummond. As Mark makes his way into the Cold Harbor room, cleverly using his bloodstained Drummond tie, we see that this knew any of Gemma who has no idea who Mark is, but she still trusts him. Despite him being covered in blood, despite her being scared, she still takes his hand and goes with him. And that is why Jame is so pissed. This encounter with Mark and her willingness to go with him and trust him proves that there are cracks in the severance barrier.

The Cold Harbor test did not succeed. Now when Dr. Maurer screams, you'll kill them all. he is of course referring to the many versions of Gemma that he has grown close to over the years and we know that he's pretty smitten with her following this line from Drummond in episode seven you like her she's easy to like so when Mark and Gemma finally reconnect it's beautiful and I also loved getting to see Miss Casey and Mark S reconnect and how once they hit that severed floor she had no idea what was going on but she trusted this blood covered Mark S another sign that the severance procedure has its flaws and that barrier is not holding so Mark takes Gemma to the exit door, the same exit door we saw here in season one. Miss Casey now becomes Gemma as she goes through that door, but Mark S stays behind, and in his heartbreaking scene, Gemma begged for him to come with her. Mark! Mark!

Mark S did his duty, he saved Gemma, but he loves Helly R, and it's hard to blame him for wanting to stay. So as Heli and Mark join hands and run, we hear the 1960s song The Windmills of Your Mind begin to play and oh my god is this song not the perfect severance song so guys i loved this final shot the freeze frame the zoom the film grain i thought it was just it was art and this is actually an homage to classic 70s science fiction film endings like logan's run westworld the andromeda strain soylent green the omega man t h x1138 silent running i could go on and that is so fitting because this show is a love letter to that era of filmmaking and i cannot wait to find out where the hell Mark and Helly are running to. Season 3 cannot get here soon enough. Now, guys, like I've

mentioned to Timer 3, I have a great interview with Kure Egan himself, Mark Geller, in our Severance Ending Explain video. Be sure to check that out here on the channel. I want to thank you all so much for joining me in this wild ride that has been Severance Season 2. It has been an absolute blast covering the show with you guys. So if you haven't already, please do feel free to subscribe and smash that bell for alerts. For Screen Crush, I'm... I don't know who I am.