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Last week’s episode of Severance was incredibly divisive, both because of its big Cobel reveal and its bottle-ish nature, giving us an entire (rather short) episode devoted to Ms. Cobel rather than any of the other main characters.
I’ve said my piece about that and, I suppose, made my peace with the outcome of that episode. Now it’s time to dive headlong into the fallout of everything. Mark’s decision to reintegrate; Helly’s attempt to carve her own path after her outie’s violation; Dylan G’s budding relationship with his own outie’s wife; and Irving’s dawning realizations about the true nature of Burt Goodman (Christopher Walken). Spoilers follow.
Love & Animus on the Severed Floor
We’ll kick things off with Dylan (Zach Cherry) who we last saw making out with his outie’s wife, Gretchen (Merritt Wever). Gretchen comes clean to Dylan’s outie about this, and things don’t go terribly well. You can hardly blame him for being upset. Then again, you can hardly blame Gretchen for being drawn to Dylan’s innie, either. She tells her husband that his innie reminds her of the way he used to be. This isn’t helpful, but it’s the truth. And it’s probably something Dylan needs to hear. He’s just going through the motions in life. The severance procedure clearly hasn’t brought him any joy or meaning.
When Gretchen tells Dylan G that she can’t see him anymore, he’s crushed. His life only really started when he met her, he pleads with her, then falls to his knees and proposes, brandishing a cardboard ring he made himself. “I’m really sorry,” she says, and then leaves forever. Dylan is devastated. He goes to Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) and fills out his resignation form. Milchick is stony-faced. He tells Dylan it feels like ingratitude. But Ms. Huang (Sarah Bock) offers up a flicker of humanity, telling Dylan that she’s sorry. “I should have facilitated better,” she says. “It’s not your fault,” he replies. Then he walks to the elevator and leaves the severed floor behind him. Is this yet another innie leaving Lumon for good, or will his resignation be denied?
Speaking of which, we get a bit of Helly R. (Britt Lower) and Helena Eagan in this week’s episode. Both versions have the great misfortune of spending time with her father, Jame Eagan (Michael Siberry) who ratchets up the creepy factor to eleven.
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