(Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Severance” season 2Section 6, “Attila.” For coverage of previous sections, read our previous Reviews.)
In the midst of section 6’s disclosure, troublesome and intimate dinner party, Fields (John Noble) presents a seemingly innocent opinion. “I think Innies deserves to experience love,” he says. Right now it is a supportive, friendly gesture. Fields, after all, share their table with a man, Irving (John Turturro), who had a “erotic confusion” with his spouse, Burt (Christopher Walken). The fact that their romantic relationship was limited to the office, where the couple worked as cut off employees, is a significant distinction – if Innie’s and excursions are independent individuals, without real knowledge of what the other is doing, thinking or feeling, it would make it difficult for fields to argue that his husband betrayed him.
But it’s a big “IF.” In the world of ”Departure weight“People have argued if Innie’s and excursions are separate people since the technology was implemented 12 years ago – or, more to point, if Innies are their own individuals who deserve their own rights. Lumon Industries is full -legged to expand its departure program in addition to its labor, but some states and several human rights organizations are all legislation against release, if not a more permanent ban.
In a new wrinkle, it also seems that organized religions choose pages. Fields says that the Lutheran Church, where he and Burt practice, maintain “Innies are complete individuals, with souls, who can be judged separately from their outie.” That belief is why Burt became a cut worker to begin with: he was a “hull” back during the day (“to put it easily”, sucks Fields), and those that a couple want a chance to be together In life after that.
Besides … how will it work, exactly? If the only way Burt will reach heaven to be with Fields is through its Innie, what happens when Burt’s Innie gets up there and wants to be with Irvings Innie? It is no problem for Irvings Outie, who seems unmatched (so far), but it is a major problem for Fields, who devoted part of his life to spending the afterlife with his husband. In heaven, could there be two innies, one for fields and one for Irving? If souls can be shared on earth, why can’t God do it again? How does the church feel about to? How does it flock?
Honestly, the Lutheran Church’s position is a bit confused for me – there is no way Catholics and their stiff adhesion to the status quo would follow this “two souls, a body” idea – but it illustrates the complex situation that has abolished individuals who are located themselves in the status. Their Innies lacks the authority to make many decisions for themselves – decisions that they work (and thus, where they live), how long they work (and thus how long they live), who they work for (and thus who they work for), and perhaps most importantly, why they work, which gives us back to Fields Malmimous feeling: “Innies deserve to experience love.”
Love, which deserves it, and how the experience of loving someone changes you from the essence of section 6, “Attila.” Directed by Uta Briawitz (“Orange is the new black”, “The Deuce”) and written by Erin Wagoner (“Bless the Harts”), the hour around three love triangles is twisted when they start warming up. There is Irving, Burt and Fields, whose dinner together may have been set up as a distraction so Mr. Drummond (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) was able to snap around Irving’s home, but it still saw Sparks (manufactured or not) between Burt and Irving’s excursions (more about this later). Then there is Dylan’s Innie (Zach Cherry) and Hans Outie’s wife, Gretchen (Merritt Wever), whose latest family visit session led to a romantic escalation in addition to their company’s sanctioned hug. And finally we have our most complicated trio (or trios?): Land (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower) and MS Casey (Duchen Lachman), Alias Mark, Helena and Gemma.
So let’s start the untanny there. This week, Mark’s Innie and Helly – actual Helly, not Helena who pretended to be her Innie – finally “it must have it” together, and the sex is so good ground ends with a bloody nose. Ok, so maybe it is bleeding as a side effect of his outie reintegration procedure (another sign that the two brands cannot be separated or combined), but let’s choose to believe that their shared passion also has something to do with it. What begins with a clumsy confession that threatened to track their relationship completely ends with Mark and Helly closer than ever.
“You thought it was me,” says Helly, after taking some time to consider what Mark and Her Outie did at Ortbo. “Which means you wanted to, with me. What sucks is that she must have it and I didn’t. “So Helly goes and gets her own experience with Mark – an experience, as much as Helly would be disgust to admit it, forever linked to her outie. They both had six in a “tent.” They both had six while they were on the clock. They both had sex with the same brand (his innie). They joke about it – that’s what they do – but you have to wonder if Helly’s quick fix will always be an experience that is just theirs, or if Helena’s luggage will weigh it.
Then Helly Mark asks: “Was it different with me?” The answer is obvious even before he gently shoots her against the wall to find out. At Ortbo, during the same after-coil afterglow, Helena says: “I didn’t like who I was on the outside. I was ashamed. “Mark asks,” Who were you? ” And when she doesn’t answer, he tells her that it doesn’t matter. Maybe it would not, but refusing to answer the question still emphasizes the emotional distance between them, as well as Mark’s subsequent flashes of reinstate (when he sees Gemma’s face on Helena). But now, when they go down into the corridor, their hard hair that betrays what they have just done, there is no distance. She asks, he replies. If he asked, she would answer. It’s love.
And I think Helena has a taste for it. I bet that’s why she shows up at the restaurant and starts a conversation with Mark’s Outie. Sure, maybe she tells herself (and her colleagues) that she is just checking in at him; Keep track of professional purposes. But that would not explain her forced flirt (“you are clearly not stupid”), her weird boast (“I am as the company’s boss”) and her attempt to replicate the playful joke she shared with Mark’s Innie (even imitating Helly’s empathy and kindness as she does).
Helena does not factors in Mark’s contempt for her, her father and her company, or how to pick up her “dead” wife can trigger these feelings during an otherwise pleasant conversation. Did she try to show him how little she knows about Gemma, as a way to deter some assumptions that Lumon is involved in her? I’m not sure, but the scene consciously sets the two characters against each other, with Gemma in the middle, and it is enough to send land that bursts home for more basement brain surgery. But it also creates an eerie echo of the relationship between Mark’s Innie and Helly, where MS Casey is caught between them. How can either couples survive without killing the other? I don’t know, but every party has become more and more aware of the threatening problem.
By comparison, Dylan’s dynamics are quite simple. The Gretchen sees a better version of Dylan’s Outie in his Innie. How couldn’t she? Dylan’s Innie is deprived of his own life and is extra invested in the life that Hans Outie is allowed to live on his behalf, which means he is extra invested in the Gretchen. He asks her questions. He tells her how happy she makes him. He assures her that she could not be the reason Hans Outie seems unhappy. He says that all the things she wants Hans Outie would say and, to the Gretchen, Dylan who sits in front of her, to be as nice, is the same Dylan she married.
Besides … she must know that he is not. Later, when Dylans Outie asks how her meeting at Lumon went, she is lying and says it was interrupted. She does not want to admit that she kissed Dylan in the office because she must feel at some level that it is not the same as kissing Dylan from the office. She is starting to recognize, even at an innate level, these are two different people rather than a shared person.
All this time is the work as the tri station is empty. Numbers are not refined. Cold port remains incomplete. Innies may deserve to experience love, they can must Experience love, but the only five-second shot of an empty MDR office makes a point irrevocably clear: if all this love is allowed to continue, Lumon may not work.
Rating: A-
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Further refinement:
• It is worth noting that work is not the only thing that is not done right now. While Mark and Helly cheated around, Helly did not meet their promise to get the instructions that Irving left behind Dylan’s motivational poster. “I’ll get it,” Helly tells Dylan. “You said it’s behind the poster because you’re actually brave?” A+ jokes, f- Execution. Right now, none of Innie’s uprising drives forward, whether it is because Dylan does not want to lose its visitor privileges or because Mark and Helly are busy being busy. Are they still dedicated to their mission? Or do they have new priorities?
• “Grow. Grow. Grow. ”(I am officially worried about Mr. Milchick.)
• Jesus Christ, Mark. If after all this you die from a brain haemorrhage because you rushed into brain surgery, I will be so damned. 2 work?! I’m on pins and needles.)
Code Detectors:
• I have been told that because of the emphasis Apple’s marketing team placed on Helly and takes off the shoesThe Internet is convinced that she is pregnant. I mean, ok. Perhaps. But I like the shoes as a human moment for Helly; She is overwhelmed after learning land “shared vessels” with Helena, and she has to beat a pace to gather. Later, when she explains her anger to Mark, she mentions that Helena “dresses me in the morning as if I’m a baby.” With that in mind, it is even more meaningful for her to lose her work uniform. She wants to feel that she has control again. She does not want to carry her assigned uniform. She just wants to be … her. Does that mean she’s not pregnant? Of course not, but I’m not sure we should base our theories on the episodic teasing.
• It hurts me to say this, but I don’t trust Burt. As much as I would like to think that Mr. Drummond just so happened to know when Irving would be out of the house so he could break in and snap around, it seems much more likely that “rubbish” that has been working on Lumon since then long before there was a cut floor is still loyal to the company. He has followed Irving. Did he do it on his own, of personal interest, as he said? Did he do it because any remote part of him still feels something about his Innie’s office partner? Or did he do it because Lumon asked him to do it, and now he is pushing on to keep Irving under business control?
• AgainI ask: where is it Harmony Cobel!
