The next accommodates spoilers for Severance season 2, episode 4.

Severance creator Dan Erickson explains season 2, episode 4’s big Helly twist. The MDR staff appeared to be reunited after season 1’s surprising cliffhanger, however episode 4 “Woe’s Hole” revealed that one of many gang wasn’t who they appeared to be. Within the wake of the massive twist that exposed Innie Helly is admittedly her Outie Helena, collection creator Erickson broke issues down, explaining this game-changing improvement (by way of EW):

“Even going again to season 1, we talked concerning the implication of the Time beyond regulation Contingency, the place you’ll be able to have an Innie posing as an Outie,” We thought, ‘Properly, that might possible imply that the inverse is feasible, too.’ That turns into this actually terrifying thought as a result of then this group, who has come to belief one another in season 1, immediately has to ask the query of whether or not they can nonetheless belief one another, as a result of you’ll be able to’t ever be 100% certain that who you are speaking to is who you assume they’re.”

“We talked about completely different characters who may try this, and in the end, Helly/Helena made essentially the most sense as a result of she could be the one with essentially the most to realize from infiltrating that group. We talked about when precisely to disclose it to the viewers, and on the finish of the day, we thought that essentially the most fascinating model was for us to study together with the characters. A lot of the present is about being of their subjective expertise and being stunned about issues together with them. I imply, that is all the season 1 finale episode, it is all us discovering out these items together with them, and so we wished to have that sense once more.”