Severance pay has enough unanswered questions and detailed fan theories to make even the most loyal viewer worry that the series may ultimately fail. In a current one Interview with diversitySeries creator Dan Erickson assures that the sci-fi drama won't end like the ABC drama's historically derided denouement Lost.
To remind the few people who don't know (Lost Final spoilers follow!), Lostis the sixth and final season upset a lot of people who had spent hundreds of real hours watching the show about a group of plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious tropical island. Last season, the series introduced a confusing parallel timeline in which the stranded characters live normal lives, only to discover that it wasn't a parallel timeline but rather a sort of purgatory-like afterlife, in which they can all be reunited. We never find out why all these strange things are happening on the island, what was going on with all those numbers, or where Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) got the power to grant immortality and leave whenever he wanted.
Erickson promises Severance pay won't close Lostbut dances around and is fully committed to solving all of the show's mysteries. “I promise the show won’t end in any sense of the word Lost. We're not going to take them to an island and have Sawyer show up. No – we are very conscious of the fact that we need to know where we are going and that we need to reward people’s patience and faith.”
The Severance pay Fan theories, which proliferate faster than Apple can crank out episodes, all but guarantee that questions will remain unanswered, largely because they were questions that Erickson never asked. The series can have a satisfying ending without explaining how many departments there are in the Lumon building that houses the main cast, or why there is one Child working on the separated floor. These secrets are incidental and not central to the drama of the show. But there are still some mysteries that they will have to solve by the end of the series if they want to avoid them Lost Levels of shame.
We need to know what these laid off workers are actually working on and what Lumon's ultimate plan is. Ms. Casey's (Dichen Lachman) whereabouts appear to be a focus of the current season, but we also need to know if and how Lumon faked her death, as Mark S (Adam Scott) says he identified her body. There is no way this series can end without explaining what the hell is going on with the goats.
These are just some of the core mysteries that need to be solved, but once the show is over. Lucky for us Severance pay Fans are told by Erickson that Season 3 shouldn't take the nearly three years that Season 2 did. Let's just hope the whole series doesn't just take place in Kier's comatose mind in some nursing home in Lumon.
