division
Last week’s episode of Severance was very divisive, both because of its great discovery of Cobel and its bottle nature, giving us an entire (quite short) episode dedicated to Ms Cobel than any of the other leading characters.
I’ve said my part about it and, I think, I did my peace with the outcome of that episode. Now is the time to dive head in the consequences of everything. Mark’s decision to reintegrate; Helly’s attempt to carve her way after her outer breach; Dylan G flowering relationship with his external wife; and Irving’s dawn realizations for the true nature of Burti Goodman (Christopher Walken). Spoilers follow.
Love & Animus on the floor divided
We will start things with Dylan (Zach Cherry) which we have last we saw with his external wife, Gretchen (Meritt Wver). Gretchen comes clean in Dylan’s Outie for this, and things do not go extremely well. You can hardly blame what is upset. Then again, you can hardly blame Gretchen that draws on the Dylan Innie. She tells her husband that his innie reminds her of how he was. This is not useful, but it is the truth. And it’s probably something Dylan has to hear. He is simply going through the movements in life. The disconnection procedure has brought him no joy or meaning.
When Gretchen tells Dylan G that she can no longer see, he is printed. His life really began when he met him, he prays with him, then kneels and proposes, marking a cardboard ring he made himself. “I’m sorry,” she says, and then leaves forever. Dylan is destroyed. He goes to Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) and complements his resignation form. Milchick is stoned face. He tells Dylan that he feels like a discrepancy. But Mrs. Huang (Sarah Bock) offers a shooting of humanity, telling Dylan that she is sorry. “I should have been better relieved,” she says. “It’s not your fault,” he replies. Then he walks into the elevator and leaves the floor detached behind him. Is this another innie leaving Lumo for good, or will his resignation be denied?
Speaking of which, we get a little from Helly R. (Britt Lower) and Helena Eagan in this week’s episode. Both versions have the big disaster to spend time with her father, Jam Eagan (Michael Siberry) who accumulates the bored factor for eleven.
Outside Lumoni, though not far from Lumon HQ, Helena and her father sit for breakfast in the harsh manor Eagan. Helena asks if she will join her, but he says she will “look” it is only a very strange way to set it up. As you see her take the small bite after the small bite of her solid eggs, he says, “I want you to get them raw.”
Okay, what? gross
Later, while Helly R. sits in MDR trying to memorize the secret Irving map in the export hall, Jam Eagan appears again. He surprises her and then tells her that she betrayed her. It is unclear whether their conversation will continue or if Helly is in some kind of danger and will have to leave. This, like many other points in the episode, ends up on a rock.
Finally, we come to Milchick. He does not play a big role this episode but he has some important moments:
First, we see her telling Mrs. Huang that she is graduating Fellowship Wintertide and is being sent elsewhere. She is not happy about that. Clearlyt clearly Milchick taking a slight and more fine revenge on her for complaints filed against him.
In something of an overthrow of the roles, we encounter Mr. Drummond (ólafur Darri ólafsson) while wearing Milchick down for his various violations. Today was supposed to be the day when Cold Harbour was completed – a glorious day in Lumoni’s history – but Mark (Adam Scott) can be found nowhere. When Milchick thanks him for his “remonstructions” Drummond tells him that he is using a long unnecessary word. “Apologize for the word,” he says. Milchick does, but Drummond wants a shorter version, and a shorter version, and a shorter version until Milchick loses his calm and tells Drummond to “devour feculence”. He tells him that he is only loaded with the separated floor. Everything that happens outside is the drummond domain. BTFO, in other words.
In addition to Dylan’s resignation, the only moment with Milchick comes shortly after his confrontation with Drummond when Mark calls on the sick. At this point, Mark and Devon (Jen Tullock) met with Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) and she told her to call with the sick. If Milchick suspects in “Chacanery”, he will block Mark from the building and then it will be late. If Cold Harbor is already over, it will be too late and Gemma (Dichen Lachman) will already have dead.
This is a great discovery, and the one that Mark is not happy to learn. But why? Exactly what exactly is Lumon planning with Gemma and Cold Harbor? Why should she die when the file is finished and she enters the last room? So many questions, all this will have to wait until next week.
In any case, Mark tells Milchick that he is actually not ill. He only needed it one day. Sometimes it is. After all, isn’t it all about that balance of life and life? Just just work, he says. Can you understand this, or not Mr. Milchick? Milchick is quiet for a long time, perhaps thinking about all this, perhaps just thinking about how to better treat this clash on the road with all his superiors breathing down his neck. After all, he makes Mark the promise to come the next day.
Mark, meanwhile, is hidden in the back of the harmony receiving truck and she and Devon smuggle it to his native cabins. Cobel is a story about the security guard, telling her that Devon is “one of Jame” and that no one will know. Apparently, JEE Eagan Old Bored has many differences that are cleaned using detachment technology (among other means, no doubt). Mark S. wakes up in the cabin, is understood to be confused and disoriented. The episode ends with her revealing Cobel while she stands, looking quite devilish, in front of the fireplace.
Irving Investigator and Burt Badman
I understand that this first part covered most of the characters and bases from this second episode to the end of season 2. The only loose end are Irving (John Turturro) and Burts, whom Irving finds in his apartment, reading through his notes. Irving notes are curious, indeed. He has been looking for some “disappearance” and “death” that Lumon had a hand, and a Mr. Burt Goodman is potentially one of Lumon’s “goons”. Burt finds this very harmful formulation. “Lumon,” he says, “is very specific to his language.”
Later, as they go by car that Burt insists, he tells Irving that he never hurts anyone. He was just a driver. He asked no questions. All the very mafia, but then Lumon is part of a corporate entity, part of a cult and a part of criminal organization. Burt clearly drew his dirty hands even if he did not do any of the injuries personally, and that is why he decided to stop. He wanted to feel like a part of it could still be innocent. It is not the same thread that he rolled at dinner with fields for Jesus and forgiveness and all the rest, but who knows if any of them was true to begin.
Irving gets Burt at a train station and tells him he has to go. He has to take a train and not let the Burts where he is going and never, never return to Kier. It is very clear at this point that if he does, Lumon will not allow him to live. “They will come after you,” Irving Burt says. Burt cleans it. “I’ve never been loved,” Irving says. Never throughout his life, up to Burt G on the divided floor. He wants to experience it. “I’m ready,” he says. Burt says no, they can’t. But Irving continues to repeat it, over and over. Burt does not swing. There is no sweet moment, no exterior kisses. Irving and his old dog board a train and they go. Burt sits at the station, looked old and tired and sad.
And now we only have a week more to go before the end of season 2 and whatever the crazy rock they leave with.
This was a really strong episode and I am glad we are again in the main cast and Lumon and again on the right track after two weeks of side story. Good good to see Dylan and Irving and Helly and even Milchick again after a few weeks descending to other scenes of the story. Of course, this was largely an episode of configuration, throwing all the pieces so that we can bring them all in the final of the season entitled, of course, Cold Harbor. Will what will happen next week? Mark’s Innie and Outie are set to have a conversation, though he has also been partially integrated. Dylan has resigned. Helly is facing her dad bored outside. Milchick seems to be hellbent to continue his mission for Lumo, but he clearly has a crisis of faith. And what will Cobel do? Mark is right when he says they can’t trust her. Will they cross double at the end?
Many to meditate! I will be sad when the season is over and we have to wait another two years for season 3.
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