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Her privacies were of the mind.

Severance + East of Eden / part two

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He glanced quickly at her and away. “You do?”

“Yes, I do.”

“Why?”

“Because I love you.”

Severance + East of Eden / part one

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“I wish we had in our church, well—well, I might as well say it. I wish we had something like the Augustines or the Franciscans. Someplace to withdraw. Sometimes I feel dirty. I want to get away from the dirt and be clean.”

Severance + East of Eden / part three

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a bird i saw who saw me

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“I hope death feels like being carried to your bedroom when you were just a child and fell asleep"

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the biggest most unforgivable sin of massive corporations like lumon is always greed. and that is also helena's (in an interesting mix with envy and shame). she wants, wants, wants without essentially deserving anything of what she wants. she wants mark's love, even though her company is keeping his wife prisoner. she wants irving's friendship even though she's actively working against his interests and the interests of all the innies. she wants intimacy even though it is not hers to claim. she only knows how to take. she takes away mark and helly's most intimate moment, cause her greed for what her innie has and her envy for her and her shame are eating her alive. but she doesn't know how to not take. she has never been given unconditional love like helly has been, but she also has never lived a life where everything wasn't for her and lumon to take.

and how abhorrent is that?

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Britt Lower as Helly R. / Helena Eagan in Severance Season 1 (2022–)

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I never thought for a second my voice was in your head

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"A way to think about Helena playing Helly R, too, was when you hear a cover of a song and you're like, "It's the same song, but…". Or a live version of the same song you've heard on the radio a lot, and there's just something slightly off about it or slightly different, and you're like, "That's the same musician, but it's live," and you're like, "Wait. They breathe in a different way," or "There's a pause there," or "The drums are more intense" or — there's just these variables that shift it almost completely sometimes. Maybe that's another way [to look at it]. You're so used to the version you've been hearing on the radio and then all of a sudden it's live."

BRITT LOWER as HELLY R / HELENA EAGAN SEVERANCE 2.04, "Woe's Hollow"

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in 2025 we need more character dynamics that are HR violations

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SEVERANCE + TRIVIA from the Severance podcast & interviews

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helena going outside, scooping up snow, forming a fucked up little seal, getting some gravel from fuck knows where to give it a little mouth and eyes. all the while probably going hehe huhu now irving will surely not suspect me again...surely he will think it is his good friend helly r bringing him this little snow effigy of a fucked up corpse we found in the woods. as an apology.

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2.04: "Woe's Hollow"

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dashboard simulator feb 2025

mutual 1: devastating text post reading apple tv's severance through a family abolitionist lens

mutual 2: text post describing the events of apple tv's severance in a way that sounds like if riverdale wasn't doing it on purpose

mutual 3: gifset of apple tv's severance

mutual 4: we are all going to die

mutual 5: has anyone else seen season 2 of apple tv's severance

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though technically, strictly speaking 🤓, she’s not YOUR wife 😏 pretty sure your outie 😜 bought the ring….👀

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BRITT LOWER as HELENA EAGAN SEVERANCE 2.04, "Woe's Hollow"

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SEVERANCE | Season 2, Episode 4, "Woe's Hollow"