Recent discussions around the highly anticipated second season of Severance often focus on "alarms" or "triggers" related to the Overtime Contingency (OTC) and the timeline of characters like Helena Eagan.
The broadcast claims "help is on the way," yet the survivors are already months into the apocalypse. It highlights the lag between the government’s collapse and the automated systems that continued to run. [S2E1] Alarm
While The Walking Dead is the most common association, "[S2E1] Alarm" occasionally appears in other contexts: [S2E1] Alarm
Dale observes that the signal must be coming from less than 50 miles away, suggesting a functional transmitter was still active nearby. [S2E1] Alarm