Of course, every episode of Severance is about innies and their outies, but 2.3 was especially so, a potpourri of vignettes (I don't know why I'm getting so French) that effectively told a bouquet of stories.
[And voici my warning about spoilers ... ]
The ultimate innie and outie story is no doubt the attempt to re-integrate the two. We saw how that worked out for Petey last season, so Mark taking a shot at that at the end of the episode is a major event, indeed. As always, since there's no way Mark is going to turn into a vegetable after this -- at least, not for too long -- it will be significant and fun to see what comes from this.
Another innie and outie story in 2.3 is Dylan's, whose innie is now getting a little time with his outie wife, thanks to the goodness of Lumon. Of course, things don't work out as well as either Dylan's innie or outie might have hoped, but we do learn that Dylan's outie -- as we also saw last week -- is a bit of a loser. Not surprising, because who in their right mind would want to go through the whole severance procedure. I mean, the show is highly enjoyable, but that's in significant part because the procedure certainly is not.
We see Helly in and out, too. But my favorite scene with Helly was after she and Mark take the elevator down to innie-land (actually, innie-floor), and they're close to kissing. Helly clearly wants Mark to kiss her, and she makes that moderately clear. But Mark (the idiot) doesn't. And given that Helly was the one who kissed him last time, he certainly should have. Not to mention that Helly is very kissable.
And then, of course, we have the people who are only outies. Milchick is gifted a series of portraits of Kier, rendered as a black man. To his credit, he doesn't really like them, though he puts on a good show to Natalie, who has the best facial expressions in the business. This was actually a very important scene, because if Milchick turns against Lumon because of its racism, well ... (And he was also carrying those blue balloons.)
But that's getting ahead of ourselves. I'll see you back here next week with my revue of 1.4.
See also Severance 2.1: Ultimate Fake News? ... Severance 2.2: Multiple Dylans
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