S2E07 - EpiCap07 - Chikhai Bardo
Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast
Allen Stare
4.8 • 733 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Wow, is there a treat for you this week! This might even be better than the melon bar. It's an all new episode directed by an all new director. Jessica Lee Gagne is the stellar Director of Photography for all of Season One and Season Two so far. This week, she's taking the big chair and calling the shots as Director.
Spoiler alert: She does an AMAZING job!
We've got flashbacks!! We visit the Testing Floor for the first time. We've got GEMMA!! Living, breathing Gemma right there trapped on the TF. If she tries to run, she just becomes Ms. Casey. I know, it's all very confusing, and I'd like to say it gets better but I can't...Dr. Maurer knows what I'm talking about.
Oh, yeah...we've also got comatose Mark, running out the door Reghabi and Devon left to pick up the pieces. You'd better push 'play' on EpiCap07 refiner.
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A big 'thank you' to Kier Eagan, er I mean Marc Geller! Marc both sat for an interview (make sure to check it out) AND recorded some great bumpers as Kier himself.
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| 0:00.0 | Severed, the Ultimate Severance podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey there, refiner, feeling a bit confused. |
| 0:17.4 | I'd like to say the feeling will pass. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome back to the severed floor. Are you ready for |
| 0:22.2 | another quick look epicap? This one is unlike anything we've ever seen around here. Welcome to |
| 0:28.3 | Severed, the ultimate severance podcast. I'm your host, Alan S. This is our seventh epicap of the |
| 0:33.8 | second season. Epic caps are quick episode recaps. They cover the week's new severance |
| 0:38.3 | episode. No details or theories, just narrative. This is not a rewatch. My full rewatch of |
| 0:45.2 | season two won't happen until the entire season has been released. A reminder, epic caps are |
| 0:51.4 | loaded with spoilers. Episode 7 of the second season is called Cheekai Bardo. |
| 0:56.8 | I've listened to three different Tibetan monks and an AI-generated voice pronounce this title. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm comfortable with Cheekai Bardo. |
| 1:04.0 | It's a Tibetan term, referring to the final moment of life when the last breath is drawn. |
| 1:09.2 | However you say it, it was delivered to the Lumen Faithful |
| 1:12.1 | on Thursday, February 27th of 2025. Strap-in refiners, we've never seen anything like this. This is a |
| 1:20.8 | beautiful and confounding episode. If you thought you were understanding what's happening in season |
| 1:25.7 | two, Dan Erickson and Mark Friedman are about to put your brain in a blender. |
| 1:29.8 | We've got flashbacks, new chip capabilities, and Gemma, living, breathing, Gemma. |
| 1:36.4 | We've also got an incredibly creepy Robbie Benson as some kind of twisted testing floor |
| 1:42.5 | doctor who whistles while he tortures. |
| 1:45.0 | I don't normally mention writers or directors in these epic caps. Those are rewatch |
| 1:50.0 | kinds of info. With this episode, I feel like I need to quickly mention both. This is the |
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