Jessica answers “What about Bob? I'm still trying to make...”

Katie asked this question about Severance:

What about Bob? I'm still trying to make sense of his character and his fevered/non-fevered role. I thought there was more when we find out Candace is telling her pre-fever story to Bob as a way to gain trust (maybe that is why she appears so naive?), and the connection to 1,001 Arabian Nights. But I'm a little perplexed by the end. Thoughts?

Jessica The way I interpreted it, the sleepwalking was a precursor to becoming fully fevered, but it hadn't yet been triggered because he was too fixated on e…moreThe way I interpreted it, the sleepwalking was a precursor to becoming fully fevered, but it hadn't yet been triggered because he was too fixated on efficiency to really give way to nostalgia. Then, when Candace is talking with him over tea, she asks him what it's like to be "back," and it's clear he hadn't really thought about it before. Once he starts thinking about it, he says it even smells like it did when he was a kid. My thought was that in the few hours after their conversation, he starts thinking more and more about his fond memories of being in the mall as a kid, and it's that nostalgia that makes him fully succumb to the fever.(less)

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Caroline R I had another thought. Looking at what Candace says in retrospect about her last interaction with Eddie—how she focused on herself and maybe saw what ...more
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