Spoilers below for anyone who hasn’t yet streamed Severance ’s second Season 2 episode with an Apple TV+ subscription . With every episode that’s come out thus far — 11 in total, with hopefully millions more on the way, I say non-hyperbolically — Severance has proven itself to be not just Apple TV+’s best original series to date, but among the medium’s upper echelon at large. Season 2’s second outing, “Goodbye, Ms.
Selvig,” certainly didn’t drop the ball as it revealed just how much of what Mark learned during “Hello, Ms. Cobel” was based on reality: barely any of it. We don’t even know if Helly is actually Helly .
But one notion rang abundantly clear throughout the entire episode: Mark S. is so intrinsically important to Milchick and Lumon that an entirely new web of lies was created — including crafting newspaper fronts and lore-filled stop-motion videos — to convince Adam Scott ’s Innie character to continue heading MDR for the sake of whatever the Cold Harbor project is. But all this focus on Mark as leader led me to reflect on the catalyst that got him to this point: Petey Kilmer.
Why Was Petey Previously Running MDR, And What Was He In Charge Of? Far be it for me to ever assume that a company as large and opaque as Lumon would have only one ulterior motive at play regarding its severed employees, because I'm sure a network of motivations is guiding the non-severed overseers' actions. So I'll grant that a singular answer won't exist here.
