Severance
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By the end of this weeks episode ofSeverance, weve witnessed everyones outies in action.
Shes at some fancy event in a gorgeous ball gown.
Shes sipping Champagne and talking animatedly to someone.
Wasnt Lumon planning a big Eagan family gala to celebrate the end of the quarter?
Could our Helly be a Lumon luminary?!
At the top of the episode, we see him go about his day after work.
He goes on a walk with his soulful dog until sunset.
Then he heads inside, pours a cup of coffee, and paints.
And listens to Motorhead.
Something is wrong with outie Irv.
At the top of the doorway is a bright red arrow.
Recreating this image is a compulsion for him.
This situation explains two mysteries about innie Irv.
First, that black substance we saw under his fingers inthe second episode?
That was probably oil-based paint.
Innie Irv has been nodding during work hours because his outie cant stop wont stop painting.
And its no wonder that hes dreaming about the black goo because its basically all his outie sees.
Ill be using her real name from now on because, frankly, its what she deserves.
What theyre doing to Gemma is unconscionable, andSeverancesuggests that Irv went through the same process.
The end of the quarter is clearly bringing about a lot of change on the severed floor.
Everyones nervously waiting for Helly to finish refining her file.
Now that she is motivated to complete her work, shes on it.
Shes actually good at it, too.
The moment she finishes, the scary numbers dissolve, and a wild pixelated sequence appears.
Its like shes beaten the final boss in an 80s computer game.
A cartoon version of Kier thanks Helly and then tells her that he loves her.
The camera cuts to Helly here, but its hard to read the emotion on her face.
She says, I … Lumon needed this.
What are the refiners doing thats so vitally important to the company as a whole?
Its a question that lingers in the air like the full-bodied scent of Rwandan coffee.
But the refiners arent celebrating their work win; theyre plotting what comes next.
Page 197 slaps, yall.
For now, Dylan is the man of the hour.
Milchick escorts him down to the Perpetuity Wing for his long-coveted waffle party.
But whatever you expected this waffle party to be, this aint it.
This is definitely not aLeslie Knope-approved waffle party.
Theres not even whipped cream.
From the jump, this waffle party is weird as fuck.
The bottom of the plate instructs him to go to the founders bed.
Dylan dons a rubber Kier mask and a parade of scantily clad dancers immediately floods into the room.
Three lingerie-clad women enter first, and theyre wearing masks.
They are the fool, the old woman, and the young woman.
Then, a man enters.
Now we know why Dylan said the house smells like 19th-century ass when MDR went ontheir little field trip.
Because waffle orgies, thats why.
Irv continues to paint, and Helly attends her mystery event.
Dylan does his thing.
Dylan navigates the control panel with ease.
He activates the switches for his three friends and then scrolls to Manage Mode.
Why are there ten options?
And why does Open House sound like a sex thing somehow?!
Dylan doesnt have time to register how messed up these choices are.
The light goes green.
The screen goes black.
like tell me Im not the only one who screamed out loud in my living room at this scene.
She gets to your outie likes giving … and then gets abruptly cut off.
We can only imagine how that sentence ended, but good for you, Gemma!
Irv smashing a deviled egg into the Lumon handbook, a.k.a.
the Kier cult bible, as a fuck you before the end of the day is absolutely everything.
These correspond to the four tempers: Woe, Frolic, Malice, and Dread.
What this means, I could not tell you.
But it seems like an important fact.
(Innie) Helly and (innie) Maaaark, sittin in a tree!!!
