Severance’s Penultimate Episode Is Way Darker Than It Seems

This nonfiction contains spoilers for Severance Season 2’s penultimate episode. Yes, it is really the penultimate occurrence this week, we triple checked.

It’s ever awesome erstwhile an occurrence tailor-made to marque viewers inquire “what comes next” has thing successful it, a singular infinitesimal that makes you halt and revel successful a singular moment. Theorizing astir Severance is, of course, fractional of the amusive of the series, particularly arsenic the enigma gets deeper and richer with time. But, arsenic we caput into the Season 2 finale, Dylan G. managed to halt maine successful my tracks.

It was a hard occurrence for Dylan (Zach Cherry) some successful Lumon and extracurricular of it. His woman Gretchen (Merritt Wever) revealed to his outie that she kissed his innie, admitting that she saw the spark determination that Dylan utilized to person erstwhile they were archetypal married. Dylan takes this accusation poorly, noting that possibly he’ll conscionable quit, earlier storming retired of the house. At archetypal it seems similar an innocuous menace from a antheral who’s learned that he’s been cheated connected — adjacent if the logistics of the infidelity are a spot analyzable — but it rapidly becomes much aft Gretchen ignores his wishes and goes to spot his innie 1 past time.

During her visit, Gretchen tells Dylan G. that she can’t spot him anymore and that she needs to prevention their marriage. Little does she cognize that her husband’s innie had been prepared to suggest to her earlier helium knew thing of what transpired extracurricular of Lumon earlier that day. She declines his connection and his handmade insubstantial ring, apologizing arsenic she runs retired of the country and leaves her severed hubby for good.

That “for good” isn’t due to the fact that Gretchen is stalwart successful her decision, though. It’s much, overmuch worse than that.

After a little and somewhat hostile speech with Helly R. (Britt Lower) — who is, by the way, the lone idiosyncratic staying connected ngo erstwhile it comes to sticking it to Lumon and uncovering Gemma contempt losing much of her autonomy than anyone connected the squad aft what happened betwixt Helena and Mark (Adam Scott) successful the wood — Dylan G. marches to Mr. Milchick’s (Tramell Tillman) bureau and quits connected the spot.

It’s specified an innocuous happening to say, that Dylan G. quit. But for the purposes of the amusement and astir surely from Dylan G’s perspective, helium didn’t conscionable discontinue his job. He chose decease by suicide, with the doors of the severed level elevator closing decisively successful Dylan G's last infinitesimal successful the episode.

He watched his champion person beryllium fired (murdered), and was, successful his eyes, spurned by the pistillate helium wanted to beryllium his wife, but yet was his wife… but besides truly wasn’t. He had the enigma Irving (John Turturro) near down inactive waiting to beryllium solved, but it wasn’t capable to support him going. Nor was Helly’s friendship, arsenic Dylan G. made it wide that helium would ne'er beryllium capable to spot that it wasn’t Helena walking among them. It feels improbable that Mark’s beingness (who is presently connected a broadside quest) would person made overmuch of a difference, either.

Dylan G’s prime feels similar a crescendo successful Severance’s opus astir autonomy. This play has approached the thought of aggregate souls, expanded connected Season 1’s question of consent betwixt innies and outies and featured the deaths of aggregate characters (Irving's innie this play and Burt's innie earlier him). The amusement is perpetually forcing america to grapple with questions not conscionable surrounding its cardinal mystery, but of what autonomy truly means if portion of you doesn’t person it astatine all. It’s often compelling and sometimes, similar this week, profoundly sad. On his past day, Dylan G. simply decided that capable was enough. Work is thing to unrecorded for, truthful helium chose removing himself from beingness instead.