In season two, episode seven of Severance, the hit show on AppleTV+, Gemma Scout suffers through two parallel trials. The first is in flashback, shot in warm, nostalgic sixteen-millimeter film, in which she meets, marries, and tries to start a family with her husband, Mark. She suffers a miscarriage. Devastated, she and Mark turn to I.V.F. Now their once-idyllic flashbacks include doctors’ visits, trigger shots, blood draws, disappointment, pain, and tears.
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