“Severance” cast debunks popular fan theories: 'You are very far off and wrong'

After three years, it's finally time to return to Lumon Industries.

In the (long) time since Severance season 1 premiered, fans have gone wild with theories about what the Apple TV+ office thriller is about. What do the Innies do at Lumon? What are the Outies' lives like? And what on earth are those goats for?!

Entertainment Weekly sat down with the cast of Severance ahead of season 2's premiere (Jan. 17) to try to get some answers, and Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Britt Lower, John Turturro, and Zach Cherry were game to address and debunk some of the internet's most popular fan theories.

Scott immediately explained why the theory that Lumon's purpose is human cloning, which could explain what the goats are for, isn't right. "This sounds like what Lumon would be doing in a super boring version of Severance," he said. Meanwhile Arquette cleared it up in no uncertain terms: "You are very far off and wrong."

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After watching a fan break down how the theme music uses a technique called pedal point to create an appropriately tense song, Scott confirmed that the music is intentional. "Our composer Teddy Shapiro is unbelievable and won an Emmy for this theme song," Scott said. "My daughter did figure out how to play the Severance theme song from YouTube ... it doesn't surprise me that Teddy is using a complicated technique like this because he's brilliant."

Since we didn't get to see Dylan's Outie life outside of his closet — aside from the reveal that he has a son — the cast confirms that will change this season.

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"Now that we saw the MDR crew's Outies walking into season 2, we suddenly have twice as many characters, which is an incredible opportunity because we have these unbelievable actors," Scott said. "So now we get to see these other parts of their lives."

Many fans have wondered about the color themes of the show, and Arquette confirmed that the different colors, from what clothes characters wear to the sets and lights, mean something. "I will give you one thing, that there has been definitely conversations about different color schemes in different divisions of Lumon and what colors upper management is allowed to wear compared to others," she said. "So your color theory, am I an autumn? Who knows?"

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When it comes to the goats, one particular fan theory got the cast excited: Are the goats the ominous, oft-mentioned but never actually seen "board" of Lumon? "I'm not going to debunk this," Cherry said. "It's possible the goats could be the board." However, Turturro disagreed: "I'm debunking it." The jury's still out on that one!

Season 1's breakout love story between Irving (Turturro) and Burt (Christopher Walken) has some fans wondering if Irving keeps painting the dark hallway to the testing floor elevator because the two severed workers have been "reset" multiple times after continuously falling in love every time they meet. "I think your theory and my theories, we diverge," Turturro teased.

As for what Macrodata Refinement does with those "scary numbers," Arquette immediately debunked the fan theory that it's actually a psychological experiment dealing with meaningless data. "You're wrong," Arquette said. "The numbers mean something."

Watch the full interview in the video above.

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