Severance 2.4: Innies Out in the Snow

Well, as I've been saying, Severance's outstanding second season on Apple TV+ seems to be getting better and better, with episode 2.4 delivering one of the wildest stories so far, with our innie team of four -- Mark, Helly, Dylan, and Irv -- now out in the snow, doing the furthest thing from frolicking, at least for everyone other than one couple.

[And here's the warning about spoilers ahead ... ]

I guess the most important revelation in this blinding story is that Helly's innie is really her outie Helena, a prime member of the Eagan family, daughter of Jame, CEO of Lumon.  Irv pays the price of telling us this, by being banished from the severed floor by Milchick.  Unclear how long he'll be banished from the show -- if at all -- but I hope he isn't.

Now all of the above was exciting enough, but the Helly/Helena story also delivers her finally making love with Mark.  As I said last week, I thought the two of them should have kissed in episode 2.3, but in retrospect that was a good build-up to what they did in the winter wonderland in 2.4.

Helly/Helena's feelings for Mark also put in a different light what's happening on the severed floor with Ms. Casey, who was revealed at the end of season one as Mark's beloved wife Gemma.  Depending upon how deep Helena's feelings for Mark are, she may want to keep him separated from his wife.  And speaking of Mark, we saw him at the end episode 2.3 undergoing some kind of integration.  We now know that the procedure didn't kill him.  But did it work?  And, if so, how entirely?

Helena notices something different in Mark after they sleep together -- is she sensing that Mark's innie is not quite the same?   One thing about Severance that you can always to rely upon: no matter how many questions it seems to answer, it always also leaves some new ones on the table, whether on the severed floor or out in the north in the ice and the snow and the freezing ponds.

See also Severance 2.1: Ultimate Fake News? ... Severance 2.2: Multiple Dylans ... Severance 2.3: Innies<->Outies

And see also Severance 1.1-1.2:  Erving Goffman Meets The Prisoner ... Severance 1.3: The History and the Neighbor ... Severance 1.4: Deadly Ambiguity ... Severance 1.5: Second Lives ... Severance 1.6: Lumon on the Outside ... Severance 1.7: Overtime Contingency ... Severance 1.8: Fired, Kissed, Almost Fired ... Severance: Season One Finale: Stunning Revelations
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