Did I just catch a Citizen Kane reference in the latest episode of Severance season 2? The way Harmony Cobel returns to her hometown, Salt’s Neck, and tells her childhood chum to “Flip my toboggan,” it reminded me of Orson Welles’ Rosebud. [Spoiler Alert] And why not? Just like Kane, Cobel’s own childhood was taken away from her by Lumon’s oligarch, Jame Eagan. Cobel was once an innocent, small-town girl who found her happiness by her mother’s side, but after she was imprisoned in Lumon’s Myrtle Eagan School for Girls, she lost everything she held dear. I always find it really interesting how these cult leaders brainwash their disciples and program them to blindly execute their agenda. The devils sow the seeds of fanaticism at such an early age that even if a blind loyalist wants to escape the prison, they can’t. Even when they are ill-treated or exploited,...