Leave it to Severance to drop yet another bombshell in the final hour.

Apple TV’s heady sci-fi satire became a runaway hit in its first season, in part because of its iconic finale. Severance Season 1 ended with the cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers — “She’s alive!” — which fueled theories in droves and kept the fandom talking before Severance’s highly-anticipated return. With Season 2, creator Dan Erickson, director Ben Stiller, and their collaborators spent 10 hours of television bolstering workplace intrigue and exploring the dark corners of Lumon Industries. It all comes to a head in “Cold Harbor,” a feature-length finale that answers a few burning questions, but leaves the door open for so many more.

Severance’s latest episode is 76 minutes of pure, audacious filmmaking. Reintegration takes on a whole new meaning as Mark Scout (Adam Scott), the senior refiner on Lumon’s Severed Floor, finds a way to converse with his work persona, or “innie.” His two consciousnesses have to work together to pull off an escape plan three years in the making. Their tentative team-up is poised to shake Lumon to its core — but with innies and outies destined to be at odds, it doesn’t take long for “Cold Harbor” to veer into delightfully uncharted territory.

Following that blindsiding finale, the cast of Severance sits down with Inverse to unpack the biggest moments of “Cold Harbor.”

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There was a surprising pattern that emerged from the buzziest sci-fi movies that premiered at this year’s SXSW Film & TV Festival: the alien invasion isn’t coming, it’s already long over. There’s no battening down the hatches or sending Will Smith up in a fighter jet to welcome aliens to Earth, it’s about dealing with the fact that aliens live among us, and might be possessing your friends and family as you speak.

It’s a fascinating pattern to emerge from in 2025 indie sci-fi, one that could maybe speak to a more cynical shift in the genre going forward… Or maybe it’s just easier for movies of a certain budget to make movies about alien possession.