Spoiler alert! This story discusses the Severance Season 2 episode “Attila,” so make sure you watch it together with your Apple TV+ subscription earlier than studying additional!
We’re now a few weeks previous Severance’s ORTBO episode on the 2025 TV schedule, and whereas I’m nonetheless attempting to shake off the nightmares of “Woe’s Hole,” the most recent providing of one of many most bingeable reveals streaming proper now proves that we Macrodats should stay on excessive alert. That is partially as a result of Christopher Walken got here again in a giant approach this episode, and we realized about his character’s nickname “Attila,” (additionally the episode title). He spoke to CinemaBlend about this nickname too, and I absolutely agree with Walken’s takeaway.
The February 21 episode lastly reunites us with Irving for the primary time (not counting his watermelon-sculpted head) since his Innie’s “quick and everlasting dismissal.” Extra importantly, although, John Turturro’s Outie Irv is reunited with Burt, and we be taught fairly a bit concerning the “retired” O&D worker, together with his motive for severing and that he and his husband name one another “Attila.”
Christopher Walken admitted to our personal Riley Utley that it looks like there’s extra to that identify than merely being a play on the pet identify “hon,” as he stated:
Within the first season, I did not know concerning the stuff that occurs within the second season, and I nonetheless have not seen it, however I’ve after all seen the script, shot the scenes. And after I came upon that my nickname was Attila, I do not bear in mind speaking to anyone about it, however there’s something form of ominous about that. It isn’t one thing that you’d, you understand, identify your pet. There’s one thing about it. It is Attila. It is intimidating.
This type of factor is why Severance is likely one of the finest Apple TV+ sequence. Christopher Walken didn’t want anybody to verify a deeper that means to Burt and Fields’ nickname for one another to really feel its darkish implications.
The pet identify is clearly a play on Attila the Hun, the scary enemy of the fifth century Roman Empire who is thought for, amongst different issues, killing his brother to grow to be the only real ruler of the Huns. Hmm, haven’t we heard a narrative lately about somebody murdering their brother?
Might Burt Goodman issue into the tales about Kier and Dieter Eagan, and even Irving’s skin-crawling dream in “Woe’s Hole”? I’m unsure, however what I do know is that Mr. Drummond appeared fairly positive Irving was in any other case occupied when he let himself into Irv’s home, and wait, was {that a} pineapple I spied in Burt and Fields’ kitchen? Lumon is listening certainly.
Let’s not overlook that terrifying glare “Attila” gave as Irv left that night time (spare ham in hand). Many followers have theorized there’s a deeper historical past between Burt and Irving than we’ve been advised, and particularly after Christopher Walken’s response to his character’s nickname, I’m feeling somewhat cautious (and, sure, fairly intimidated) concerning the pineapple of Irv’s eye.
New episodes of Severance drop every Friday on Apple TV+.