This post contains spoilers for the Season Two premiere ofSeverance, Hello, Ms. Cobel.
Imagine for a moment that you are an innie.
From your perspective, you are always at work.
Adam Scott and Britt Lower in ‘Severance’Jon Pack/AppleTV+
You never see the sky or breathe fresh air.
You dont know who you truly are, or what the outside world is really like.
Hell, you barely even know what youdoat work.
Why would Mark do that?
Why would they do that?
For that matter, why would Lumon management want to resurrect four such troublesome employees?
They have all gotten glimpses of their outies lives.
They have tried to alert the world to the terrible nature of severance.
And now they have things worth fighting for, even if it means staying in that accursed place.
We dont know if Devon understood what Innie Mark meant when he screamed, Shes alive!
We dont know how the audience at the Lumon gala reacted to Hellys speech.
(Why are you a child?
Mark W asks her; Because of when I was born, she answers simply.)
Milchick dismisses the stunt as a case of Innie Marks ego run amok, but amazingly, it works.
What follows is a pretty spectacular pile of corporate double-talk and other infantilizing bullshit.
Milchick does give each of them the chance to retire for good a.k.a.
Still, we know Outie Mark agreed to return for some reason.
Maybe Milchick is telling the truth, and the world really is watching what Lumon does now.
Maybe Devon figured out what Shes alive!
meant, and Outie Mark just sent Innie Mark to go looking for Gemma.
Maybe Helena Eagan showed up at Outie Marks door with a dump truck full of money.
So its, uh, mushy.
Its a striking image on which to end this thrillingly weird return to the world ofSeverance.
Severed life is awful for Helly and the others, but its damned entertaining for us to watch.
