After a revelatory episode 7, Severance Season 2 takes a frigid turn in episode 8, "Sweet Vitriol." The episode focuses solely on Harmony Cobel's (Patricia Arquette) icy homecoming to the town of Salt's Neck. Once home to a Lumon ether factory, the town has since deteriorated after the company drained it dry.

Severance wears its influences on its sleeve, but it has mostly fused those influences into something uniquely its own.

Severance Season 2 Episode 8, ‘Sweet Vitriol’, is the worst-rated episode of the Apple TV series – but I disagree with the hate.