This weeks episode, Chikai Bardo was perhapsSeverances most poignant and wrenching to date.
And a lot of that has to do with which character got to be its protagonist.
Gemma (Dichen Lachman) was a peripheral character for most of season one.
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We first meet her as Ms. Casey, the counselor in Lumons Wellness Center.
Marks innie knows Ms. Casey is his outies wife.
But its all been about his pain until this point.
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But its Gemma herself thats the most intriguing.
Before Chikhai Bardo, Gemma was a smiling woman in a wedding photograph.
She was a woman her husband wistfully remembered as extraordinary, someone who made him a better person.
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So its startling that the first time wereallymeet her is as a Lumon lab rat.
We even hear birds chirping at one point.
He doesnt answer, and its actually unclear at first which version of Mark this is.
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