Trust in “Departure weight“Fans not to leave any stone reverse.
In front of season 2, section 9, “The After Hours”, Eagle-Eyed viewers noticed that the latest part of Dan Ericksons Apple TV+ Thriller shares its name with a chapter of “The twilight zone“From 1960. TV Episodes have the same name all the time, not least because of their large volume in existence and common phrases that are repeated (Season 1’s “Hide and Seek” shares its title with sections from “Adventure Time” and “Bluey”)-but something as integrated into sci-fi TV as “The Twilight Zone” deserves further exploration.
“The Twilight Zone” season 1, section 34 stars Anne Francis as Marsha White, a woman looking for a department store after a golden circle when she begins to experience eerie things on the ninth floor. The whole area is deserted and empty for goods, with the exception of exactly what she needs. The woman who helps her turns out to be a mannequin. Oh and yes – there is no ninth floor.
“The After Hours” immediately invokes “Departure weight“Parallels, but first to the latest”Chika Bardo“Who revealed that Gemma (Duchen Lachman) is alive and well in the subcontracting of Lumon, and is subjected to perverse experiments and routine torture. Officially, there is probably not the subcontracting. The MDR team has searched the floor and asked for answers but still has not come closer (except for our dear departed Irving B., which provided detailed instructions that have not yet produced results). And the people down there? Dr. Mauer (Robby Benson) has at least emerged somewhere else, but what about Sandra Bernhard’s mysterious nurse? Are we safe She is Not a mannequin doll?
In the end (spoilers from 1960 in the future), Marsha learns that she is also a mannequin; For a month of year, she and her fellow statues take turns to live in the human world. She stayed a day too long and experienced disorientation before remembered her reality (balance must be respected!), And the seller (Elizabeth Allen) helped her to do so. It is a direct contrast with Gemma’s tendency, where she continuously illuminated by everyone around her (mostly Mauer, who can “eat feculence”). In “The Twilight Zone”, all other mannequins come to life to facilitate marsha back to normality, and they happily send the seller when it’s her turn.
But the real thread between “The After Hours” and “The After Hours” is how to be outside made marsha feeling. She forgets that she is not human, and she wants more – in the same way that Dylan (Zach Cherry) can no longer bear the limitations of life as an innie after meeting her Outie’s wife Gretchen (Merritt Wever), how Irving (John Turturro) could not return to his routine after losing it.
“When you’re on the outside everything seems so normal,” says Marsha in “The Twilight Zone.” Life was comparatively normal for excursions in “Severance”, but it will be a fairy tale story in season 2. “The After Hours” sees Dylan’s lies, Irving ready to run away with his love, and Mark take the help of Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette), of all people, to help his end. Even Milchick (Tramell Tillman) snaps and talks back to his superiors. Not so normal out there anymore!
In the end, Marsha does not shoot back in the least about returning to its original form. While her comrade sinks the elevator into the human world, she admits quietly: “It was so fun.” In an oblique way, Gemma would agree; After being hosted as hostage for so long in the subcontracting-her time on the cut floor that Miss Casey-Henne’s time with land and all life before Lumon must feel like a bizarre dream and break from reality. Mauer, the nurse, the rooms – this is her reality now and the time above? It was so fun.
Season 2 final in “Severrance” premieres Thursday 20 March on Apple TV+. “The Twilight Zone” is available to stream on Paramount+.
