- Rupture Star Patricia Arquette Reveals What’s Ahead for Harmony Cobel in Season 2
- Harmony will “struggle” with its long-standing loyalty to Lumon Industries, Arquette teases
- She will also be caught in a “teenage vortex of emotional growth” this season.
Rupture Star Patricia Arquette has teased what fans can expect to see as part of Harmony Cobel’s character arc in season 2.
Speaking with TechRadar before the top-rated Apple TV Plus show returns on January 17, Arquette suggested that Cobel will embark on a coming-of-age journey of sorts. Not only that, but he’ll also spend much of this season questioning his loyalty to Lumon Industries, the underground biotech megacorporation he’s loyally served his entire adult life.
Major spoilers follow immediately. Rupture The last two episodes of season 1.. Come back now if you haven’t seen them.
In Rupture In episode 8 of season 1, titled ‘What’s for Dinner?’, Cobel was suspended as manager of Lumon’s Severed Floor. This is because she hid information about Helly R’s (Helena Egan’s ‘innie’ persona) suicide attempt and her extracurricular activities using the alias Mrs. Selvig from the Lumon board of directors. The latter included Cobel spying on Mark Scout by posing as his absent-minded neighbor and being hired as a babysitter for Mark’s newborn nephew.
However, in last season’s finale, Cobel avoided Lumon’s blushes (and potentially saved him some devastating press coverage) when his Macrodata Refiners, including Helly and Mark’s ‘innie’ (known simply as Mark S) They temporarily escaped to the real world. That almost led them to expose Lumon’s disastrous labor practices, and they would have succeeded if it hadn’t been for Cobel’s last-minute intervention. In fact, it is Cobel who realizes that the ‘innies’ have used Lumon’s overtime contingency program to escape and, at a Lumon gala, tries to prevent Helly from revealing what is happening in the heinous organization.
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So, you’d expect Cobel’s sinister employers to thank her for saving their skins and potentially reinstate her as Severed Floor’s manager, right? It’s not like that. I won’t reveal what happens in the first episodes of this season: my Rupture However, the season 2 review contains some very light spoilers about its first four episodes, if you’re interested. Arquette was equally keen not to spoil anything significant about Cobel’s character arc in the second outing of Apple’s mystery thriller series, but she did tease where Cobel’s mindset is headed. Rupture season 2.
“I think she doesn’t like the direction [that] “The corporation is coming in,” Arquette told me. “She’s a devotee of the old school, and I feel like even though she’s been doing things that were outside the scope of the company, her agenda was to do it for Lumon.” [and] for the greatness of the attention, and she is very frustrated because the corporation does not value that at all, nor does it value her at all.
It is like a child who has a father who will never recognize him or love him.
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“She sees how much she has done and how instrumental she has been to the growth and trajectory of that corporation,” Arquette added. “It’s like a child who has a father who never recognizes him or loves him, so he’s always trying to get that kind of approval. At the same time, in this kind of adolescent vortex of his emotional growth, he also hates them, for so there’s a desire to be loved by them and also punish them that she’s dealing with.”
For more information on the next installment of one of Apple TV Plus’ best shows, including details on its cast, plot, and trailers, read my Rupture center of season 2. Alternatively, read more of my exclusive coverage of the show’s next entry in the section below.
