When you haven’t been to ‘Woe’s Hole’ but, return and watch Episode 4, Season 2 of Severance with an Apple TV+ subscription earlier than diving into this story.
There have been a ton of creepy and unsettling characters, reveals and plot factors within the episodes of Severance which have aired on the 2025 TV schedule. Nonetheless, nothing made my pores and skin crawl greater than the innies’ journey to Woe’s Hole, as we realized extra about Kier, Irv realized the reality about Helly, and it was in the end revealed that Helly was really her outie, Helena. So, I requested John Turturro about this haunting journey, his character’s nightmare, and the way that every one led to the large reveal about Britt Decrease’s character on the finish.
Like many followers, Irv had been suspicious about Helly because the second she talked about that night time gardner. Then, on the journey to Woe’s Hole, his suspicions have been confirmed. A part of that affirmation got here after Irv left camp and fell asleep within the snow. He proceeded to have a terrifying nightmare that featured Christopher Walken’s Burt and a horrifying zombie-like seemingly computer-generated girl. I requested Turturro how this horrific nightmare performed into his realization about his co-worker, and he defined:
Properly, the dream informs that he is kind of possibly been, you understand, arrange. It clarifies one thing in his mind that he suspects and it kind of cements, ‘I do know what is going on on,’ you understand? I feel it helps, not in a literal method, nevertheless it’s a chunk of the puzzle.
General, it appeared like this dream greater than confirmed Irv’s doubts about Helly. I feel it additionally highlighted and presumably solidified his ongoing points with Lumon as an entire. Now, there are nonetheless quite a lot of inquiries to be answered on this entrance – like who that scary woman was. Nonetheless, we 100% know that the dream was the ultimate straw that received Turturro’s character to behave towards Helena.
Talking to that time, the Barton Fink actor informed me that after the dream, he went to seek out Helly and name her bluff. He wanted to behave on what he had been questioning, and he turned out to be proper, as Turturro informed me:
So then when he comes again and he appears to be like at her, you understand, he pushes it somewhat additional, you understand, to say, ‘Let’s have a look at this individual reveal themselves [for] who they are surely.’ And I feel he is sort of talking for the group then, and he is additionally talking for Helly in some methods too. That is an outsider, and we’re all at, you understand, danger right here, and that is what sort of pushes him, you understand, to go that far.
In the identical interview, Britt Decrease, who performs Helly/Helena, referred to as this “a rescue mission,” and the Do the Proper Factor actor mentioned this was the purpose the place he actually wished to “unravel it.” So, he tried to drown her to show his level, and that occurred after this ambiguous dream.
This second felt like Irving’s breaking level, and he knew it. His actions towards Helena led to him being fired and mainly killed Irv’s innie. Possibly seeing Burt, his love whose innie additionally left the corporate, drove him to lastly act. Possibly he lastly discovered what these numbers meant. Whereas we don’t know that for certain, we do know his night time within the snow in the end led to the reveal that Helly was really Helena, which is able to change the sport of Season 2 for good.
Finally, this dream and Helly reveal induced extra questions than solutions. Together with characters like Gemma, Miss. Huang and Gwendoline Chrstie’s Lorne and issues like the goats and the numbers, we are able to add Irv’s dream and Helena’s motivations to the record of issues we have to be consistently questioning.
Nonetheless, all this thriller and intrigue is what makes Severance one of many greatest reveals on Apple TV+. And because it continues airing on Fridays, you higher imagine I’ll be hyper-fixating on this dream, Irv’s firing and Helena’s option to go to the severed ground as herself and never as Helly.