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What an incredible, magnificent, splendid episode. I spent the last 50 minutes on the edge of my seat watching everything happen. Nothing on television since the last episode of the first season has caused me so much anxiety and nervousness, and it's so good to experience those feelings again with the SAME series. Some people will think it's an exaggeration, just as many didn't like my opinion about episode 9 "saving ammunition" for the end, but I firmly believe that the two season finales of Severance are the closest we have to Ozymandias, in terms of technique, script and performances. I loved the ending, which in addition to opening doors for the next season, also resolves the story of Gemma, who is such a deep character who comes to life through such a talented actress... Honestly, I don't know if I can wait another 3 years for more episodes. I hope they take less time to release this time and that the quality remains, but until then I know that the scene of Mark running with Helly will continue to reverberate in my memory. 10/10.

This episode was a good setup for the season finale. I wish it had been a little more revealing in some parts, but I feel like it showed us enough to build hype for the season finale. However, despite saving the excitement for the end, it still left us with a high level of anticipation and curiosity for next week.

Some people may have been frustrated by the lack of answers to some questions, but all nine episodes have been a build-up to the finale, which I honestly have high expectations for, because I trust Ben Stiller and we'll have 76 extremely revealing minutes ahead of us. I give the episode a score of 8 because on the "Severance" scale of scores, 8 would be the usual high quality that the episodes present, which for me is already excellent, 9 would be only for "Woe's Hollow" and "Chikhai Bardo", two episodes completely out of the curve in this series, which were impactful from beginning to end, and 10 so far only for "The We We Are", which was the best episode of the series so far, perhaps not for a long time.

Severance is one of the best series I've ever seen in my life, I have no doubt about that. But since the last episode of season 1 I hadn't felt the anguish and tension of the unexpected to come. Today, in this seventh episode, I was able to feel all of this again, and create such great empathy for Mark's wife that I didn't imagine it would be possible in just 50 minutes. Incredible, brilliant, surprising. I'm dying of anticipation for the next events in the series and unfortunately I'll have to wait another week until then.

I'm not going to give spoilers in this analysis, but I'm just going to say that if this season you've found few answers so far, know that in this episode you'll have a lot of questions answered, get ready!

10/10 for this episode, easily.