16 Years Ago, Dichen Lachman Starred in Another Sci-Fi Show Eerily Connected to Severance
And it seems that the creators of Severance themselves left a very hidden Easter egg hinting at this connection.
The second season of Severance is coming to an end on Apple TV+. Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller have thought it all out, but the details of this mysterious world come in small doses.
For three years, fans have wondered what the Lumon Corporation really does, what the work of sorting numbers is for, and what really happened to Gemma.
Dichen Lachman, who plays Gemma, shot to fame with the release of Severance, but the actress has a rich baggage of TV projects, including sci-fi. 16 years ago, she starred in Dollhouse, a show whose main ideas are eerily intertwined with Severance.
What Is Dollhouse About?
They will be whoever you want them to be and do whatever you need them to do. They speak all languages and live in a place where regrets, pain, and memories are erased, and they say they came there willingly. But is that true?
Echo lives in a mysterious Dollhouse and is a member of an illegal and underground group of people whose individuality has been erased. She is a doll. Hired by rich people, dolls not only play their roles, but become whoever the client wants them to be.
Countless amounts of information can be downloaded into their minds, and each time a task is completed, their minds are completely erased. But one day, Echo's memory seems to awaken from a deep sleep.
Gemma Has a Lot in Common With Dollhouse's Sierra
The similarities are obvious even at the premise level, but they become even more apparent when you pay attention to Dichen Lachman's character, Sierra.
Sierra, whose real name is Priya, was brought to the Dollhouse by a doctor who became obsessed with her, but she rejected him. In response, the doctor drugged her, causing Priya to hallucinate.
One of the workers, in an act of altruism, took the woman to the Dollhouse, where her personality was erased – the man thought he was saving Priya from a serious mental illness.
The parallel with Severance is not only the complete erasure of personality, as happens with innies, but also the creepy doctor obsessed with a woman. In the episode Chikhai Bardo, we saw that Dr. Mauer, who controls the experiment on Gemma, also has strange, perverted romantic feelings and affection for her.
And if those coincidences are not enough for you, here is another. The music band playing in the alley in the sixth episode of the first season of Severance is called Dollhouse in real life.
