Severance Cast Confirms Controversial Fan Theory and That Huge Episode 4 Twist | Season 2 Interview

The Apple TV+ hit series Severance is focused around such a high concept – office workers’ personalities being “severed” into “innies” and “outies” – that the viewer will be excused for sometimes forgetting some of the nuances of the world in which these characters live. That’s why Season 2, Episode 4's big episode, “Woe's Hollow,” is noteworthy for its setting alone, as the Lumon Macrodata Refinement team of Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro), and Dylan (Zach Cherry) finally get the chance to spend some time outside the office. Like, out in the wilderness. Where there are trees and snow and, you know, sky, which is something most of them have never seen. It’s a big deal for them!

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Also a big deal is several revelations in the episode, including the climactic moment when we learn that outie Helena has actually been posing as innie Helly all season, presumably spying on the rest of the group. And then there’s Irving’s innie being… wiped out of existence, apparently?
I spoke to the cast as well as creator/showrunner Dan Erickson about Severance Episode 4 and more. Here are some topics we discuss:

Helena the Imposter
While we’ve known that outie Helena Eagan is a fairly awful person (or at least seems to be), the revelation that she has been posing as innie Helly R. comes as a pretty big shock – even if some warning signs were there for the most eagle-eyed of fans. Britt Lower explains that while she knew since Episode 1 of the second season that she was actually playing Helena and not Helly, it was still a tricky situation to play as an actor, since the two halves of the severed character are usually depicted as being so different from one another.

Woe’s Hollow: Taking the Innies on a Field Trip
Dan Erickson has wanted to take the innies out of the office pretty much since the beginning of the show, and he finally got his chance with “Woe’s Hollow.”

How Will Severance End?
We’re not even halfway through Season 2, and surely Severance has a lot more story left to tell, but at the same time, Erickson says that he does have a good sense of how the show will eventually end.
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