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Severance<\/em> season 2<\/a> takes viewers to a previously unseen area of the Lumon severed floor: Mammalians Nurturable, where a herd of goats is grazing and is tended to by a sizable workforce. The goat room also introduces us to an all-new character played by guest star Gwendoline Christie, the apparent senior member of the Mammalians group. <\/p>\n

Mark and Helly\u2019s excursion to the goat room leads to many new questions \u2014 mainly, What the hell is up with that goat room?<\/em><\/p>\n

We previously saw the room adjacent<\/em> to the goat room in season 1, when Mark and Helly went on a \u201cmental health walk\u201d in \u201cThe Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design.\u201d In that episode, Mark and Helly encounter a caretaker feeding a room full of baby goats. Wyatt the Goat Wrangler (played by Brian Rock) tells Mark and Helly, \u201cThey\u2019re not ready. You can\u2019t take them yet. They\u2019re not ready. It isn\u2019t time!\u201d<\/p>\n

Gwendoline Christie\u2019s unnamed character greets Mark and Helly with a similar assumption regarding their arrival: \u201cAre you here to kill me?\u201d she asks while wielding an onion shear. Intriguingly, the goat room leader seems rather matter-of-fact about her possible fate, and later tells the MDR visitors that the goat room staff is not afraid of them. Which makes sense: There are a lot of people working there. More than 20 staffers \u2014 including the return of the Goat Wrangler \u2014 appear to be involved in the raising and breeding of goats.<\/p>\n

The goat room herders seemingly confirm they are severed employees. One recounts a session with Ms. Casey in which he learned that his outie was skilled at stargazing, at least acknowledging that they don\u2019t stay down here forever (to their knowledge). But the innies of the goat room are much more disheveled and dirty than other Lumon staff; some appear to have skin conditions. Like other aspects of Lumon, some of the herders appear to be holdovers from another time period, based on their grooming and clothing.<\/p>\n

Perhaps most interesting is the manner of speech Christie\u2019s character uses. Like Jame Eagan, who earlier this season scolded Helena Eagan with the insult \u201cfetid moppet,\u201d she uses anachronistic language. She speaks of not abiding \u201cfripperies\u201d and refers to the sketch of Ms. Casey as a \u201cpage of paper.\u201d She warns that they\u2019ve \u201c[sent] a courier to inform Mr. Milchick of your inquiry.\u201d Yes, many Lumon employees have unusual speaking habits, but Christie\u2019s goat room character stands out in how closely she echoes Eagan’s bygone vocabulary.<\/p>\n

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The goat room employees appear to have some connection with another division at Lumon. Like the Optics and Design team, they wear green badges. They likewise suspect the Macrodata Refinement team of being marsupials. And similar to O&D, our first glimpse of their department back in season 1 belies their true size; we went from knowing of one goat herder to nearly two dozen, just like the reveal of the expansive O&D group.<\/p>\n

So where does all that leave us? Goat imagery has shown up throughout Severance<\/a><\/em>. An adult male goat-person appears in the painting of Kier Eagan taming the four tempers, with the goat representing the temper Malice. The same temper was represented by a goat-masked dancer at Dylan G.\u2019s waffle party. There\u2019s also a bust of a goat head in Devon and Ricken\u2019s home. One astute Severance<\/em> viewer<\/a> noticed comparisons to the show\u2019s themes and Arthur Machen\u2019s 19th-century novel The Great God Pan<\/em>, a reference to the Greek god of shepherds and hunters who is part man, part goat. Other theories<\/a> posit that the goats being raised on Lumon\u2019s severed floor are temporary hosts to the brains of dead Eagan family members, and that the Board that never speaks cannot because they are preserved in goat bodies; or that if Lumon is experimenting with cloning technology, it\u2019s utilizing goats. Those Lumon goats certainly appear to be well cared for, free roaming and being hand fed by severed employees. <\/p>\n

Those theories certainly make an exchange between Mark and Helly in season 1 more interesting. In \u201cThe Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design,\u201d after the encounter with the Goat Wrangler, Helly asks, \u201cWhat if the goats are the numbers? Like, we\u2019re deciding which goats live and which ones\u2026 Oh, God.\u201d To which Mark replies, \u201cI doubt it\u2019s that.\u201d<\/p>\n

An earlier exchange between those two may be even more illuminating. When Helly R. is having her contentious orientation in Severance<\/em>\u2019s very first episode, she asks Mark S., \u201cAm I livestock? Did you grow me as food, and that\u2019s why I have no memories?\u201d To which Mark incredulously responds, \u201cYou think we grew a full human, gave you consciousness\u2026 did your nails? No, you’re not livestock. Good lord!\u201d<\/p>\n

Only one thing\u2019s for certain: As with many episodes of Severance<\/em>, we\u2019re left with just as many new questions as we are answers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Severance season 2 takes viewers to a previously unseen area of the Lumon severed floor: Mammalians Nurturable, where a herd of goats is grazing and is tended to by a sizable workforce. The goat room also introduces us to an all-new character played by guest star Gwendoline Christie, the apparent senior member of the Mammalians group.  Mark and Helly\u2019s excursion to the goat room leads to many new questions \u2014 mainly, What the hell is up with that goat room? We previously saw the room adjacent to the goat room in season 1, when Mark and Helly went on a \u201cmental health walk\u201d in \u201cThe Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design.\u201d In that episode, Mark and Helly encounter a caretaker feeding a room full of…<\/p>\n

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