Where Was ‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 8 Filmed? Patricia Arquette Discusses Filming Location for Salt’s Neck

Throughout Severance Season 2, the characters have ventured away from their workplace into various intriguing locations. From a visit to a door factory and a dinner at Burt and Fields’ house to a corporate retreat at Scissor Cave and Woe’s Hollow, the show showcases diverse settings for its storyline.

Our next stop? We’re headed to a town called Salt’s Neck thanks to an urgent Cobel (Patricia Arquette) road trip.

Severance Season 2, Episode 8 spoilers ahead.

In Episode 3 of Season 2, viewers caught a glimpse of a road sign for Salt’s Neck, sparking curiosity about its significance to Cobel. The mystery unraveled in Episode 8, titled “Sweet Vitriol,” where it was revealed that Salt’s Neck is Cobel’s hometown, which had been destroyed by Lumon.

Facing challenges within the company, Cobel decides to return to Salt’s Neck, a place that holds personal meaning to her. The episode, directed by Ben Stiller, paints a vivid picture of the town with its frigid climate, grey coastal views, sparse population, and hauntingly beautiful scenery featuring crashing waves, rugged rocks, snow, icebergs, and winding roads.

So where was Severance Season 2, Episode 8 filmed? Curious about the real-life Salt’s Neck filming location? Or what Severance star Patricia Arquette has to say about hitting the road to shoot the Cobel-centric episode? We’ve got answers! Here’s everything to know about where “Sweet Vitriol” was filmed.

As noted in our larger rundown of Severance filming locations, Season 2 shot scenes at new locations in greater New York “including Kingston, Beacon, Hudson, Ossining, Utica, Nyack, Long Island, Brooklyn and Palisades Interstate Park.” The Salt’s Neck scenes in Season 2, Episode 8, however, were filmed in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Specific scenes were reportedly filmed in the town of Bonavista and Trinity Bay North. It sounds like an old fish plant was also used as the abandoned Lumon ether factory in the episode.

“This is where the sun rises first. Where Vikings landed over 1,000 years ago. This place is home to the oldest European settlement and one of the oldest cities in North America, but is one of the youngest provinces of Canada,” the province’s website reads. “A vast land, with a relatively small population, Newfoundland and Labrador has some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet. Here, you can experience a solitary wilderness one day and immerse yourself in a vibrant culture the next. This is a land of rich history and natural wonders: stunning coastlines, breaching whales, icebergs, and some of the most incredible skyscapes you’ll ever see.” 

While Salt’s Neck is portrayed as across as a depressing, largely abandoned town, Arquette vibrantly shared fond memories of her “magical” Newfoundland location shoot with Decider.

“Oh man, it was so cool. It’s so killer up there. I mean, it’s so, so far away. And because it’s so far away, it’s one of these frozen-in-time bubbles of a place. You feel the turn of the century, because you can hear the Irish brogue still there from the Irish settlers who came, you know, in the late 1700s or the early 1800s,” Arquette explained. “It’s so frozen and cut off from everything that things feel like 20 years behind in some kind of way — in a good way.”

“There’s a fierceness to the people,” Arquette said of the locals, recalling stories she heard while traveling the area. “The driver would tell me, ‘Oh yeah, it’s cold and frozen a lot of the years, so people get around by snowmobile and this woman got herself to the hospital an hour away by snowmobile while she was in labor.’ And that’s how women are there, you know?”

While we didn’t see much food at Hampton’s Drippy Pot Cafe, Arquette also took a moment to shout out a real-life Newfoundland delicacy and a culinary don’t.

“You could order a bowl of fried cod tongues,” she explained. “There’s different food, and [locals] will talk to you and say ‘Don’t ever let someone cook a seal in your house. Ahh! The smell of cooked seal, what a smell. You can never get out!’” (Sidenote: Someone tell Irving “We Should Eat It” Bailiff!)

With sets largely limited to Lumon and Mark and Mrs. Selvig’s houses in Season 1 and Season 2, Arquette said it “was really fun” to film the Cobel-centric episode “in this really magical place.”

“Newfoundland is a time bubble,” the Severance star concluded. “It’s this incredibly rich world.”

Want to learn more about some of Severance‘s major filming locations? Check out Decider’s list of standout spots.

New episodes of Severance Season 2 premiere weekly on Fridays.