Is Soil Hill a real place? Severance Season 2 location explained
InSeverance Season 2 Episode 9, as Outie Mark is in a race against time, we’re introduced to yet another new place: Soil Hill. Warning: spoilers ahead!
The latest chapter of theApple TV+ seriessets up an epic finale. It doesn’t look likeAsal Reghabi’schip flooding has worked (all it did was send Mark into a momentary coma), and so Devon enacts a new plan.
They decide to team up with an unexpected ally inMs Cobel(who we found out inEpisode 8was the inventor of the severance procedure). Together, they head to theDamona Birthing Retreatto try and activate Mark’s chip so he can communicate with his Innie.
But they need to buy some time. Drummond’s piling the pressure on Milchick to get Mark back to finishCold Harbor, which at this stage is 96% complete. And so Cobel tells him to call in sick.
Is Soil Hill a real place?
Mark tells Milchick he’s gone to “a clinic in Soil Hill” to have his nosebleeds checked out, but thisdoesn’t appear to be based on a real place in the US.
There is a Soil Hill in West Yorkshire, UK, but it’s a little known birdwatching site and has no connection to the world of Severance.
It’s the first time this location has been mentioned in theTV show, meaning all we know about it at this stage is that it’s located in or around Kier, PE, the town where the series is set.
Similar questions arose afterSeason 2 Episode 3when we were introduced toSalt’s Neck, and in Episode 8 we learned more about the place: it’s where Cobel grew up.
Not only that, but Salt’s Neck has been ravaged by a drug epidemic after Lumon set up one of itsether factoriesthere before jumping ship for pastures new.
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We can assume Soil Hill is close enough to the Lumon headquarters, but not so much that Milchick would be able to get to it quickly (Mark needs him to be as far away as possible right now).
Since there’s only one episode of Severance Season 2 left, it’s unlikely we’ll be heading to Soil Hill – it seems to be just a passing comment (for now, at least, but Season 3ison the way).
What does chicanery mean?
Before calling Milchick, Cobel warns Mark that he needs to come up with a convincing excuse for why he won’t be at work that day. “If he smells chicanery, he’ll lock you out of the building,” she says.
The vocabulary in Severance is unique, so don’t feel bad if you don’t know what it means. Chicanery is the use of deception to achieve a purpose – you could replace it with words like deception or trickery.
For more explainers on the unique language of the show, read about what“fetid moppet”and“remedium hominibus”mean.
Also, make sure you know when the next episode drops with ourguide to the Severance Season 2 release schedule, and check out our guides on theGlasgow Blockand theLexington Letter.
