Season 2 Episode 7: Chikhai Bardo

Aired: February 28, 2025

Synopsis: An old romance intersects with a deadly present threat.

Directed by: Jessica Lee Gagné

Written by: Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    24 hours ago

    I listened to a podcast talk about the episode, and I think I appreciate it more now. I just didn’t enjoy the relationship parts of the episode I don’t think. And the Gemma parts just seemed to ask more questions when we already have too many unanswered questions.

    I will probably like it more when I do a rewatch.

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I’m surprised, it felt like they revealed much more than I would have expected to ever get this season, without opening too many new questions. Any in particular?

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        39 minutes ago

        Everything to do with the testing floor is a question. Who are the people watching the computers? What do the rooms mean? Why do they have the same name as the files? We know Cold Harbor is important, but now it’s a room also, what’s in it? Somebody said the doctor is going to have to let Gemma go, why? And go where?

        Also, we know now she’s still alive, but Mark said he saw her dead body. What did he look at?

        I feel like there’s more questions, but that’s just off the top of my head.

        • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
          2·
          21 minutes ago

          Who are the people watching the computers?

          While we don’t know their identities, it clears up who the “twins” were in Woe’s Hollow. They seem to be individuals that are deliberately similar to our refiners, basically “shadows”.

          And this tells us a lot about the severed floor! Now we definitely know that there’s more staff on the Lumon back-end, and all their actions are being analyzed.

          What do the rooms mean?

          The episode implied that the rooms are scenarios that Gemma strongly dislikes, with each room having a separate severed version.

          Why do they have the same name as the files?

          The implication is that MDR is responsible for something in relation to the room - they probably either “uncover” the scenarios the test person hates, or they prepare/change the innie versions in some ways. I’m thinking it’s the earlier since Cold Harbor isn’t done yet, and Mark is still working on the file.

          We know Cold Harbor is important, but now it’s a room also, what’s in it?

          It’s going to be a scenario like the other rooms, and the episode foreshadowed that it will involve drowning (or suffocating).

          Somebody said the doctor is going to have to let Gemma go, why? And go where?

          Presumably this will be the topic of the next few episodes.

          Also, we know now she’s still alive, but Mark said he saw her dead body. What did he look at?

          Rhegabi explained that Lumon has people at the morgue. They found a corpse that looks similar to Gemma, and burned it (Mark mentioned something about identifying her charred remains).

          • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 minutes ago

            Rhegabi explained that Lumon has people at the morgue. They found a corpse that looks similar to Gemma, and burned it (Mark mentioned something about identifying her charred remains).

            I definitely missed this. When mark mentioned earlier that he saw the body, he didn’t mention it was burned and couldn’t tell it was her. It seemed like he knew it was her. So that’s not a very satisfying answer, at the same time, I get that grief fucks with your perception.

            As for the others, you are just guessing the answers to the questions. Fact is, the show created more questions than it answered. For instance, telling us there is more staff on the Lumon back end is not answering a question we previously had, it is creating new questions. Who, what and why are these people? That’s 3 questions.