I’m Still Trying To Catch My Breath After Watching “Severance” This Week, So Here’s What People Are Saying About This Mind-Bending Episode
Note: This post contains spoilers for Severance Season 2, Episode 4, “Woe’s Hollow.” If you haven’t watched it yet, keep this tab open and come back once you’re done.
This week on Severance, the MDR team went on a field trip to the outside, where they saw the tallest waterfall on Earth, ate copious amounts of luxury meats (but no marshmallows; those are for team players), learned the story of noted lineage-spiller Dieter Eagan, and discovered that there has been an outie in their midst all season long.
I think it’s pretty safe to say that John Turturro as Irving B. was the MVP of this week’s episode, as his character sleuthed out the imposter in their midst and was ultimately banished from the severed floor.
If you were also shaken to your core by these absolutely perfect 50 minutes of television, please enjoy these on-point reactions, details, and theories as we wait for the next episode. Friday really can’t come fast enough!!!
1. “John Turturro deserves awards for this episode. The hatred and venom he had when he said, ‘Yes, do it, SETH!’ is maybe a highlight of the series for me now.”
2. “Considering ‘hang in there’ is the expression they’ve used on that poster in the break room that shows Dylan activating the overtime contingency, it seems pretty clear to me that Irv wants him to do it again in order to bring him back somehow.”
3. “So Helly went from being tackled while giving a speech to immediately being drowned in a freezing cold river by Irv. Imagine how confused she must be.”
“Then she watched Irv be killed essentially.”
4. “Why is no one bringing up the weird twin versions of everyone? WHAT WAS THAT.”
5. “They really dragged Ms. Huang’s child labor ass out here. 
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“Do you guys think we’ll get an explanation for her this season?
My theory is she’s an Eagan School for Girls person; backup theory is that she’s a part-time innie from the testing floor like Gemma.”
“In Season 1, Episode 2, when the anti-severance protestors are yelling about Lumon during Mark and Alexa’s date, one of the protestors says, ‘Lumon even wants to sever kids—’ before they’re cut off.
I think Ms. Huang really is just a kid that they severed.”
6. “In Irving’s dream with the computer, you can see the letters E, A, G, A, N form into the shape of Helena’s face at 42:56. That’s how Irv put it together.”
7. “‘Kier Eagan writes about his twin brother loudly jacking off in the woods’ was not on my Bingo card.”
“More like Kier Eagan writes about himself jacking off in the woods and feeling so ashamed he creates an evil cult company. Innies vs. outies, shame vs. purity, white vs. black, etc., etc.”
“That’s my interpretation. He had no twin brother. It was just his way to absolve himself for his guilt.”
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