Severance’ season 2, episode 7, “Chikhai Bardo”— tells the sad story of Mark (Adam Scott) and Gemma (Dichen Lachman), while hinting at the greater ambitions of Lumon.

We know there was something special about her,” Erickson says of Dichen Lachman's character. “We don't still fully understand what that was.”

On any given week, we can count on a new episode of Severance to pack an emotional wallop. But I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to call season 2, episode 7, “Chikhai Bardo,” one of the series’ most ambitious and heart-wrenching installments yet.

Severance Episode 7, Chikhai Bardo, flips everything we thought we knew about Gemma making the story even more heartbreaking.

In ‘Chikhai Bardo’ she enters six rooms. We only see a few of these. In the first, the Wellington room, she visits a dentist. It’s effectively a torture chamber. Think about this for a moment: This innie only visits the dentist.

Severance Season 2 Episode 7 is titled Chikhai Bardo, and in this article, find out what this term means in the context of Severance.

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This column contains spoilers for Severance Season 2, Episode 7. I try to avoid column entries focusing on the same show two weeks in a row, but Severance has been on one lately s