Severance is a show about people whose brains are bifurcated such that they can't remember anything about what they did at work when they're at home, and vice versa. There are love triangles involving Person A, Person B, and Person B's other persona. A couple of weeks ago the severed employees mourned the loss of their friend by eating a watermelon carved in the shape of his hear. This show is weird, so when I say that "Chikhai Bardo" is the weirdest episode so far, it means something.

At the end of the last episode, "Attila," Mark fell into a torpor as his reintegration process continued. Perhaps what we're seeing here is his waking dream as the two halves of his personlity knit themselves back together. Only that can't be it, because we spend most of our time with Gemma, Mark's wife who supposedly died some two years back. Her...