What is that song in Season Season 2 Episode 5?

“Severance” is the type of show that offers viewers to choose every scene and details in search of evidence. The “mystery box” approach is a tested and real TV formula, if it is difficult to withdraw. But when you get Zeitgeist to your side, as with “Severance”, the search for the audience for answers creates a unique and convincing show experience.

Because of this aspect of the show, many fans may have started at the beginning Severance season 2Episode 5, “Trojan Horse.” The episode begins with a new character that has not been named, pushing a cart to the bottom of the virgin corridors to the optics and design department, as what it appears to be a kind of dentistry. Satisfied, it accelerates the vehicle away and to the fateful mysterious elevator in which Irfing (John Tortoro) continues. All the time, this unknown employee whistle is a well -known tone: “Edmund Fitzgerald”, written by Gordon Lightfoot.

Is this special choice to set evidence of what is happening in Lomon? Does he tell us anything about the frightening elevator? Maybe, not – but because it’s fun, let’s talk about it anyway.

Gordon Lightfoot was a popular singer and songwriter from Canada, who won both the main commercial success and praise for his long career. Of all his songs, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerd” may be his most famous. In it, the details of the Lightfoot that drown the real life in SS Edmund Fitzgerd, which is the Great Lake Shipping ship, during a storm on Superior Lake in 1975. The giant and dispersed ship was well. All 29 crew members died in the debris. As Lightfoot said in his song, “That good and right ship was bone to be chewed when Gallup came early.”

Director of “Chapter” and producer Ben Steller He is a great fan of Gordon Lightfoot, and discussed the inclusion of the song in “Trojan’s Horse” while appearing on New York Times Podcast Interview. When asked if the song has the switches of deciphering the display, Steller laughed, saying: “I will not say anything. I will leave all the options open.” He stressed, however, that his appreciation for Lightfoot music may be more important here than some bigger ambiguity.

Certainly, Ben Steller says that we may not need to read the offer by analyzing Edmund Fitzgerald, but hey, encourages the offer to speculation, so let’s get a little bit. Edmond Fitzgerald was raised primarily iron ore. As large lakes, and the largest one in the region for more than a decade, it was a central piece of the same industrial culture in the middle that took the “chapter” aesthetic signals from the beginning. Snow City where “Severance” occursOld cars, the political presence of Lomon-all due to a certain era of the American industry.

When looking at this lens, you can see the song’s insert as a sign of a special Lumon case. Just as the ship carried refined iron ore, the sterile employees of improving Macrodata are refined … Macrodata? Something evil? We still do not know the meaning of “frightening” numbers, but there is definitely an objective relationship.

It should also be noted that Mark apparently important (Adam Scott) works on Lumon called “Cold Harbor”, which also seems to be among the theme of Lightfoot. Does the melody carry all answers? Certainly not, but it fits well with the rest of the unique pattern and tone of “Severance”.