The Eagan family and their production of ether in Severance season 2, episode 8, parallels the real world in a chilling way.

What show could have me furiously Googling Andrew Carnegie's steel mills and diethyl ether addiction in the mid-1800s? Severance. Only Severance. After the dust settled on "Chikhai Bardo"—which sent ...

This romance is memorialized in The Courtship of Kier and Imogene, a painting seen in Season 1. Ether is a source of addiction dating back to the 19th century (Kier was born in 1841), and this ...

By getting high on an ether that elevates their spirits. The few remaining citizens of Salt’s Neck suffer from an addiction to a product Lumon used to make and give out. When Sissy complained ...

To Severance viewers, severance is naturally taken as immoral; we see that it’s the root of so much anguish in our favorite ...