[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for “Severance” Season 2, Episode 10, “Cold Harbor.”]
Oh “Severance” Season 2. We hardly knew you and yet here we are, obsessing over every detail of the finale and trying to figure out what it might mean for the recently confirmed Season 3. Previously, creator Dan Erickson has discussed the possibility of a workers strike playing a part in the show’s future, but star Dichen Lachman thinks fans will have more pressing interpersonal concerns for their favorite characters.
Speaking in a recent interview in the Los Angeles Times, Lachman believed that after the finale sees Mark’s innie choose Helly R. over his outie’s wife, many viewers might hope the writers find a way to maintain a dynamic between all three (or four or five or 29 depending on your perception of how severance works).
“I think people will be pitching a throuple situation maybe, where they can all live together,” said Lachman. “I certainly think [fans are] going to be very upset, but only because they’re so torn. They’ve fallen so much in love for Helly R., who’s just captured people’s hearts, but are so aware of Adam’s character being torn between thinking that his wife is gone, but ultimately she isn’t. It’s a real conundrum.”
Lachman may not be that far off, as even co-star Britt Lower was caught off-guard by the connection she had with the actress and her character as they shot the final scene.
“Helly R. seeing Gemma, Britt seeing Dichen’s performance on the other side of the door, was really affecting,” Lower told the LA Times. “That last moment where she’s seeing this heartbreaking thing happening across the hallway, my eyes were just drawn to Dichen. That was just something that happened on the day. I remember just being like, ‘I can’t take my eyes off her, even if I’m being pulled away.’ There’s a connection there.”
Lower went to explain that the moment is less about any romance between Helly and Gemma and more about “having empathy for an outie,” perhaps for the first time. Even as Mark S. and her are “running away like wild horses” and embracing the love they have for one another, there’s another thought running through Helly’s mind, which is “What’s next?”
Adam Scott viewed the scenario a bit differently. He told the LA Times that Mark S. knew “exactly what he’s going to do” once Helly appears in the hallway.
“He’s in love with Helly and can see the anguish from who he knows as Ms. Casey. But walking through that door may mean that he ceases to exist,” he said. “Walking into the [other] unknown, where you’re alive, first of all, but also, he gets to be with the person he’s in love with, I think that becomes the only choice for him.”
“Severance” Season 2 is now available to stream in its entirety on Apple TV+.
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