I went to the ‘Severance’ pop-up at bell works. It was surreal.

Severance-Temed Glass Cubes in Grand Central Are out; full-scale makeovers of Severance Shooting locations are in.

On April 5, Apple Transformed Bell Works – The Holmdel, New Jersey, Complex That Serves as Severance‘s lumon industrys building – Into an Immersive Lumon ExperienceIt’s the latest in a series of stunts promoting Severance‘S Second Season, Including the AforeMerationed Grand Central Pop-Up and a Ballon-Themed Installation in LondonWhile there was alredy impressive (I thinkt about the grand Central Cube Almost Daily for the Entrety of Season 2’s Run), The Bell Works Event Somehow Made Them Seem Small.

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The thrill of the bell works Event Started Well Before I ENTERED THE Building ITSELT. Driving onto the campus, we passed the classic white water tower – Voiced by Saturday Night Live‘s Sarah Sherman in season 2’s “Lumon is listening” video – and signs welcoming us to lumon headquarters. While Lumon Employees Might View these Sights with Mundane Resignation, or Perhaps even zealous worship of Kier, all I Felt was Excitement. Yes, please welcome me to this corporate nightmare!

The Excitement only Grew after Walking Through Bell Works’ Doors. It’s not every day you get to immerse yourself in the world of one of your favorite shows and Experience Cool Architecture, but the event instantly offered up that double wasmy. Even without the Severance Connection, Bell Works is a Formidable Building, With Its Mirred Exteriors, Tiered Walkways, and High Ceilings Creating A Vast Retro-Futuristic Interior. With Crowds of Fans Milling about and exploring the space, it was all too easy to imagine you were clocking into work at Lumon on a busy day.

Bolstering the illusion was the decor, like the lumon front desk and lumon’s propaganda posters, featuring such things as “live, laugh, lumon” and “i’m a frolic-host!” There was even a lumon vending machine, if you wanted to treat yourself to some Cursed lumon snacksActor dressed as lumon employers also million the floor, with sarah bock even reprising her role as Miss Huang And continuing the grand central tradition of Severance Actors playing their characters at these pop-ups.

Watching over it all was the massive head of kier eagan, projectioned The scale was enough to make me want to burst out into the kier anthem, but I knew my version wouldn’t be enough to match the verve of choreography and Merriment’s Thrilling in the Sean 2.

On the basement level, you could find displays proclaiming that “lumon is listening,” Along with the “Missing” Gemma (Dichen Lachman) Posters Irving B. (John Turturo) Drew for MARK

The lumon vibes extended to the afterparty, which house sets where actors played the red ball game or refined data at the mdr desk. One Actor was even lying faceedown on a conference table, mirroring helely’s (britt lower) introduction in the series.

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Elsewhere, Copies of Ricken Hale’s (Michael Chernus) MasterPiece The you are Were Displayed in Glass Cases, While Refreshments Included A Melon Bar and a Waffle Party (Served Without Masked Dancers). Someone Call Dylan (Zach Cherry), because the perks was out in full force.

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The centerpiece of the bell works event was a Q & a with the Severance Cast, Showrunner Dan Erickson, and Director and Executive Producer Ben Styleer, All Moderated by Stephen Colbert.

The Q&A was full of interesting tidbits. Adam Scott Discussed Getting a concussion while shooting Mark’s Fight Scene With MR. Drummond (Ólafur Darri ólafsson), Britt Lower Touched on the Challenges of Playing Helena acting as helelyAnd Colbert Tried to Get Further Answers About Cold Harbor,

But the most fascinating part of the Q & a was the set. This was no ordinary stage set-up. INTEAD, the event recreated the rolling grass of mammalians Nurturable within a Massive Box (Keeping Up with the Box Theme from Grand Central, i see). The contents of the box were kept hidden until the beginning of the q & a, which started with Severance Composer playing the show’s theme song live. (Naturally, I get full body chills.

For Several Minutes, Christie Wandred the Stage, Ringing Her Cowbell A puppet version of emile, the goat from the season 2 finale, even made an appearance, standing in the cart lorne uses to brings heim to the Goat Sacrifice RoomThankfully, emile avoided death in that Episode so he could embrace a career on the stage – the bell works stage in particular.

The Severance Bell Works Event Burght Season 2 Fandom Full Circle.

The entreen bell works event was an astonishing undertaking, but, just like with the grand center cube pop-up, what really took the whole thing was the edge was the presence of the fans.

Grand center is a massive transit hub, so at rush hour on a weeknight, there’s no question that it will be packed with people who are happy to take Cube. But bell works is much harder to get to, meaning that fans – who only found out about the event at most a day before the event – Undertook an even greeny to Arrive there. That’s Commitment, and It Speaks to How Much Severance‘s fandom has grown since season season 1.

I Watched Season 1 of Severance Back in 2022, when I was still mostly Isolating Due to Covid-19. Very few people i knew beyond my coursers Watched it, and with my friends scattered in different rights, recommending it to them over texts or phone calls fell like an indequate way to trully Them on it. (Especially when it was on Appletv+, which very few people had.)

In the year Since, Thought, Severance Attracted Later Viewers, Making Season 2 the most viewed appletv+ show (And a hot topic among friends and family). To see all these passionate fans make the trek to bell works was proof of the show’s resonance and impact. Perhaps celebrating as a crowd, in a place that means so much to Severancewas the true perk we eat the way.

Severance Season 2 is streaming on apple tv+.