S2E23 - REWATCH07-PT01 - Chikhai Bardo
Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast
Allen Stare
4.8 • 733 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
The episode "Chikhai Bardo" blew a lot of people away when it premiered as the 7th episode of the second season. A brand new leader was in the Director's Chair but she was a familiar face to both cast and crew. This is Cinematographer Jessica Lee Gagne's first foray into directing. Based on the incredible success of this episode, she'll probably never be a cinematographer again.
We're going back in time with a blushing Mark and Gemma. We'll see how they met and fell in love. We'll ALSO venture down to the 'Testing Floor' where a very alive Gemma is being subjected to bizarre tortures by Robby Benson and Sandra Bernhard. Mark is passed out on his couch and Reghabi and Devon are about to come to blows over his body.
It's a wild one, Refiner...and this is just PART ONE. Strap in and fire up that workstation. It's time to discover the wonder that is 'Chikhai Bardo.'
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| 0:00.0 | Severed, the Ultimate Severance podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | Severed, the ultimate severance podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | Hey there, Refiner, welcome back to the Severed Floor. |
| 0:16.9 | Our full rewatch of season two continues. |
| 0:19.7 | We're seven episodes into a 10-episode season, |
| 0:22.3 | but I'm still going to give you the spoiler warning. |
| 0:24.5 | You must have seen all 10 of the season two episodes |
| 0:27.8 | before you begin this podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | There are spoilers everywhere. |
| 0:32.5 | This is Severd, the Ultimate Severance podcast. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm your host, Alan S. |
| 0:36.6 | We're starting a unique journey |
| 0:38.0 | this week. This chapter of our story is an entirely unexpected look at the beginnings of Mark |
| 0:43.2 | and Gemma's love affair. It also documents their attempts at starting a family. That would be a |
| 0:48.7 | pretty full episode right there, but we're just getting started. After experiencing the early days of this great love affair, |
| 0:55.3 | we're also going to journey for the first time ever to the testing floor. We'll find that Gemma Scout |
| 1:00.6 | is alive. She's not injured or brain dead or half burned up on life support following her car |
| 1:06.7 | accident. You'd almost think that car accident thing is a lie. Gemma is not only alive, but she's |
| 1:12.6 | also healthy and aware of everything except for those times when she activates her very unique |
| 1:19.0 | severance chip hybrid. This episode also spends time in Mark Scout's living room where Mark is still |
| 1:25.2 | unconscious. Flooding, Rigabi's latest attempt at reintegrating |
| 1:28.9 | his chip resulted in Mark having some kind of a health episode, possibly a stroke. He passed out in |
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