My Head Is Spinning Like A Top After Watching The Latest Episode Of “Severance,” And Here’s What Happened

Note: This post contains spoilers for Severance Season 2, Episode 3, “Who Is Alive?” If you haven’t watched it yet, keep this tab open and come back once you’re done. 

Hey there, all you fetid moppets! It’s time once again to yell about everything that happened on Severance this week, and Season 2, Episode 3 was a doozy. Here’s what happened, plus reactions and theories from the excellent Severance subreddit:

Innie-Mark and Helly went on a field trip to search for Ms. Casey, and they ended up in the goat department, aka Mammalians Nurturable, headed up by the formidable Lorne (Gwendoline Christie). They didn’t learn anything new about what happened to Ms. Casey, but they did show us their bellies, and we finally got another look at the Goat Man.

Meanwhile, Irving stopped by Optics and Design, where he bonded with Felicia about how much they both miss Burt (and yes, I did tear up during this scene). Felicia also spotted Irving’s drawing of the mysterious dark hallway his outie paints on repeat and revealed that it’s known to her as the “Exports Hall.”

Dylan’s innie got to meet his outie’s wife and have an 18-minute visitation experience as a reward for getting work done, and it’s safe to say that finger traps and coveted-as-fuck egg bars have absolutely nothing on this new perk.

While we’re talking about this scene, an eagle-eyed redditor pointed out that it looks like Dylan’s wife Gretchen stole Pam’s look from her art show in The Office, Season 3, Episode 16, “Business School.”

Elsewhere on the severed floor, Natalie brought her signature jubilant smile with terrified eyes down to Milchick’s office to present him with some bizarre race-swapped paintings of Kier while The Board (allegedly?) listened in.

Natalie was a busy gal this week. She also frolicked over to Devon and Ricken’s place to chat with Ricken about creating a version of his book The You You Are that’s just for innies. It looks like Devon saw right through Lumon’s attempt to manipulate her husband, but will Ricken’s hubris drive him right into Lumon’s hands?

We also saw Cobel sleeping in her car for some mysterious reason. Then she drove up to a road sign for Salt’s Neck before turning around and heading back to Lumon HQ in Kier to try and talk Helena into putting her back in charge of Mark and his team of severed workers. I have so many questions about what the heck she is up to, and I cannot wait to find out more.

And finally, Outie-Mark attempted to burn a message into his retinas to ask his innie if Gemma is alive. Luckily, Reghabi caught him before he could accidentally blind himself and explained why that plan wouldn’t work the way his computer told him it would. She also revealed that Gemma is alive inside of Lumon, spurring Mark to agree to undergo reintegration. The episode ends with his innie and outie consciousnesses merging. Fingers crossed it goes better for him than poor Petey.

In conclusion, “Five questions answered. 20 new questions. Every single week.” And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

—toledotigs

Do you have any new theories after seeing this episode? What are your biggest questions now that Mark has started reintegration? Let’s talk about it all in the comments.