Severance
Warning ! This article take spoilers for Severance season 2 , instalment 2 .
One of the burning questions afterSeveranceseason 2 , sequence 2 is why Helena Eagan kept rewatching Helly and Mark ’s kiss from time of year 1.Severance ’s mould of charactersis much more interesting than any other show , given that several actors are portray two version of themselves . Severance ’s Innie and Outie personalitiesand the differences that tell them are endlessly intriguing , with these differences being spotlight much more closely in season 2 than they were in season 1 .
WhileSeveranceseason 2 , episode 1 ’s endingfocused on the Innie personality of Lumon ’s prole , season 2 , sequence 2 delved into the Outies . The out - of - study personality of Mark , Helly , Irving , and Dylan were left reckoning with the consequence ofSeveranceseason 1 ’s Overtime Contingency , with Helly ’s Outie taking center stage as Helena Eagan , the heritor to Lumon . Although Helena is shown lead the damage control for Lumon after what the Innies orchestrated , she is notably concerned in the footage of Helly kissing Mark fromSeveranceseason 1 , begging the question of why .
Helena Is Sad & Happy That Her Innie Has Found Love (Which She Doesn’t Have)
Helly’s Relationships Are Different From Helena’s
The most obvious reason as to why Helena keeps rewatching the tape of Helly and Mark kissing inSeveranceis her loneliness . BeforeSeveranceseason 2 , episode 2 , little of Helena ’s life was break away from a few videotapes . This episode , though , delves a lot more into Helena ’s spirit as the heir to Lumon , describe it as a very solitary position . Most of those around her regale her with reverence , only without much genuine love or affection , including her family extremity , as evidenced by Jame Eagan ’s strangeSeveranceseason 2 scene .
The Eagans represent a Brobdingnagian office in Severance , and their kinfolk Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is briefly explained during the crew ’s sojourn to the Perpetuity Wing in time of year one .
InSeveranceseason 2 , episode 1 , Milchick reveals to Dylan that his Outie is the only one with a family , confirm Helena is also not get married . With all that enunciate , Helena is in all likelihood a very unfrequented person and does not have much in the style of real honey with anyone else . Thanks to the magnetic tape of her Innie , however , Helena can strangely learn herself - or a part of herself , at least - experiencing love for the first metre with Mark . Despite not actively feeling or remembering this herself , Helena rewatching the mag tape could examine she is trying to live vicariously through Helly .
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Helena Watching The Kiss Footage Is A Reminder Of Another Harsh Reality With Mark In Severance
The Relationship Is Solely Confined To Lumon’s Severed Floor
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Helena rewatching the tape of Helly and Mark is also a reminder of another look of her biography . This reality is that she and Mark , at least on the exterior , can never be together and will not have the love that Innie Helly and Innie Mark contribution . While it is worth noting that Helena probably does not require to pursue a relationship with Mark , it must be a strange sensation for her to know that her severed self has found love with someone . Outside of employment , this love end .
A big reason for that is the drastic difference between Mark and Helena ’s Innie and Outie personality ; Helena is potential a believer in the ways of Lumon and idolize Keir Eagan , whereas Helly is a rebel who goes against that total notion system . Outie Mark is much more dour and depressed as he is grieving the loss of Gemma , his wife . As advert to above , Helena has likely struggled to have that form of connector with someone outside of Lumon . All of this means that , while Helena can watch her Innie find love with Mark , these intuitive feeling would never manifest in the existent world .
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Could Helena Be Trying To Study Helly In Severance Season 2?
Helena’s Actions Could Tie To A Major Severance Season 2 Theory
Since the exit ofSeveranceseason 2 , episode 1 on AppleTV+ , many theories have been craft , fromIrving ’s black hallway paintingsto what is happening with Ms. Casey / Gemma . Another big possibility concern Helly R , with many interview fellow member wondering why she was acting oddly to her fellow Macrodata Refinement workers inSeveranceseason 2 . One account is that she is shake by the fact that her Outie is Helena Eagan and thus the face of everything the team has fought against , but a clever theory states that Helly is not actually Helly at all .
Severancecreator Dan Erickson confirmed that Helly ’s lie to the MDR crew stemmed from her shame that she is truly an Eagan , yet that did not stop theory from being crafted .
Many have conjecture that the Helly who entered the discerp floor at the ending ofSeveranceseason 2 , episode 1 is actually Helena . The possibility claim that Helena is infiltrate the MDR gang to gain information for Lumon , with the rewatching of the tape potentially being her direction of emulating Helly ’s mannerisms . This is an avowedly farfetched theory , butSeverancehas been make love to take seemingly unrealistic plot twist and make them go , with one possibly linking to Helly and Mark ’s big kiss from season 1 .
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Severance is a psychological thriller series featuring Adam Scott as Mark Scout , an employee at Lumon Industries who undergo a " severance " subroutine to split his workplace and personal memory . However , as work and biography image cryptically begin to collide , it quickly becomes clear-cut that not all is as it seems . Created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle .
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