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Severance Doubles Down on the Body Horror
Trust Lumon to keep finding new and disturbing ways to terrorize its severed employees.
A brief overview of the season-two body horror that emphasizes how powerless both the Innies and Outies are once Lumon starts messing with their personage: In “Woe’s Hollow,” the MDR team sees eerie versions of themselves, identified in the episode’s credits as “shadows,” guiding them through the forest; we never learn if these are people, holograms, or some kind of collective vision implanted in their minds. Severance has always foregrounded the tension between Innie and Outie control over a shared body, a struggle with long pop-culture history: in literature like Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Altered Carbon, in comics with the relationship between Eddie Brock and alien symbiote Venom, in movies like the sexism-skewering The Substance. Lumon “provides” the MDR team with those ghastly, spectral twins in “Woe’s Hollow” so they can feel close to Kier and Dieter Eagan and dresses and styles each of them like Mark, Helly, Irving, and Dylan.
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