This is a weekly examination of each new “Severance” episode. It contains spoilers, so if you haven’t watched, come back when you have.
What if the grass really is greener, people?
If the new “Severance” episode “Attila” taught us anything, it’s that everyone wants to be with an Innie — sometimes their own, sometimes another’s, sometimes their own but not their own.
In any case, the Innies are having a moment.
Gretchen clearly wants to be with Dylan’s Innie — and Outie Dylan, confusing buying a car at the end of the month as a really great deal akin to getting money back, has repeatedly shown to Gretchen that he doesn’t know what he wants to be in life or how to live it (scuba diving, wood working, garage beer making, etc.).
Burt — that’s Uncle Burt Goodman to you — wants what he had with Innie Irving.
Helena, playing loose with her verbiage as it pertains to the OTC and the ORTBO — wants Innie Mark, and I don’t think it’s all about keeping things at Lumon on track.
The problem there, of course, is that Innie Helena, aka Helly to (formerly) mask her true identity, was already pissed at Helena and staked her own territory with Mark, and I don’t think she’s going to give up without a fight.
What we don’t know — yet — is what Ms. Casey/Gemma thinks of all this; we only got the tease from Mark that she said a lot of things in the hallway. But let’s just say that if Mark and Gemma do get back together somehow, he’s got a lot of explaining to do.
The heart, and other organs, want what they want, people.
Now let’s get to deconstructing the Hun out of this episode.
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