Severance Season 2 Pineapple Fixation Is Finally Explained by This Brilliant Fan Theory
These fruits have a hidden meaning that hints at what Lumon is doing.
The second season of Severance does not lower the bar and continues to present viewers with intriguing puzzles. A new technique of the writers is to bring our attention to certain objects without explaining why they are so important.
For example, in the first episode of the second season, viewers noticed Dylan's obsession with his belt. He keeps mentioning that Milchick cut it. There is even a theory that the uprising video shown to the Macrodata Refinement workers in the first episode is a reference to this incident.
The Writers Draw Our Attention to Pineapples in Season 2
But the belt is not the only thing the writers draw our attention to. In the same video, a new game for the workers was shown, in which they have to get a pineapple out of a pool with their hands tied.
In the second episode, the pineapple also appears often in the frame – Milchick brings Mark's outie a gift in the form of a basket of fruit, among which there is a pineapple.
And it seems that the fans have discovered the secret meaning of this object.
The Hidden Meaning Behind Pineapples Is Their Reproduction
Reddit user MattsIdeaShop pointed out how pineapples reproduce. In cultivated species, the plant's seeds do not have time to ripen, so they reproduce through shoots, creating genetically identical plants:
“Unlike seeded fruits, pineapples don't rely on pollination to produce viable offspring, making them unique in their ability to replicate without sexual reproduction.”
This fact is consistent with the theory that Lumon is trying to clone people or rebuild bodies using DNA.
The mysterious room with the goats suggests that Lumon is creating artificial life and cloning. "Am I livestock?" Helly asks Mark, waking up for the first time on the severed floor.
Perhaps Lumon Is Planning to Perfect the Cloning Process
The pineapples could also be related to the painting from the first episode of Season 2, in which Kier forgives the guilty workers. To grow a new pineapple, you have to cut off the top green part and plant it – in the painting, we only see the heads of four workers.
This could also explain the origin of Ms. Casey. Mark mentioned that he identified Gemma's body after the accident, and it was burned, but we don't see a single scar on Ms. Casey.
Perhaps Lumon already has a way to rebuild a person's body from part of it, and Gemma is one of the few, if not the only, successful results of such an experiment.