like we saw in the immaculate episode 7 that turned a simple lore question into an emotional exploration of grief and love. And yet, this season also showed the pitfalls of trying to do a show like “Lost” without the benefit of having 22 episodes in a season — like episode 8 failing to provide a meaningful side story without making it feel like filler. Still, the highs far outweighed the lows, with moments like Irving B. (John Turturro) having a big breakdown at Woe’s Hollow providing one of the best scenes in the show so far.
Of course, by far the single greatest moment in all of “Severance” came in the finale, when Tramell Tillman’s Mr. Milchick brings in without a doubt the strangest department at Lumon, Choreography and Merriment, to celebrate Mark S. (Adam Scott) reaching 100% on the Cold Harbor file. It is undoubtedly one of the best scenes in television in 2025, a moment that took everything that was already bizarre and great about the famed Music Dance Experience of the first season, and the moment that cements Mr. Milchick as the MVP of “Severance.”
It might surprise you to learn, then, that Tramell Tillman was not immediately enthusiastic about the Choreography and Merriment moment. As he told Entertainment Weekly, “I was reticent about doing the whole choreography at all, because we did the Music Dance Experience in season 1,” Tillman said. “So I didn’t want to try to recreate this thing. But then Ben told me there’s a marching band, and I can’t say no to that. I’m like, ‘Let’s do it!'”
