Severance - Analyzing Helly R. + Theories
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2022
- Need more Severance? I got you covered. This time we examine Helly R. AKA "Helly the Headstrong". What makes her tick? What part does she play in the grand scheme? Let's try and find out.
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Honestly, if this show was ina bigger streaming service everyone would be talking about it nonstop right now.
when i first found your channel i didn't even realize you were a smaller creator- your videos are so high quality that i just assumed you already had thousands of subs!! keep up the great work and the severance videos :)
Please keep making these great videos, feeding my Severance obsession! One thought, Helly's suicide plan was particularly shrewd in that she did it in the elevator, timing the hanging as the elevator ascends, so that it would be her outtie who would experience death by hanging, and if she lived, at least her outtie would have that memory. Essentially it wasn't suicide, but a direct murderous attack.
I just rewatched the entire season and this show is crazily detailed. After the break room Helly chooses a peanut snack from the vending machine even though (or because) Milchick noted her nut allergy on her first day.
An interesting thing also about her is that when compared with other characters in the show, her innie is more of a true version of herself, rebellious and passionate. Attempting to break free. Her outtie is the one who is stuck, collapsed on by her family’s company and father. Suppressed and forced into the business.
On her first day of work when her outtie is in the parking lot and Mark almost hits her - you would think as an Eagan her outtie would have a VIP parking spot or a driver - not parked way out in the boonies with Mark.
I was just re-watching the first episode, and one of Helly's survey questions was "What is Mr. Eagan's favorite breakfast?" Lol, I love this show.
Helly R is 30 years old. Milchick said so at her welcome party.
I just absolutely loved to see the way that she was so consistently stubborn throughout the series both as her innie and outie self. It was so interesting just to see how different her opinions of severance could be depending on whether she is her innie or outie. To go from being so pro-severance to then actually experiencing working at lumon with no memory at all is so powerful, and I think that in the future, having her say they're suffering at her speech holds a lot of strength because it's coming from her, who is super respected.
What I find most fascinating is that no one stopped her despite being caught on camera. They just let her dangle there until Mark found her.
Another point worth mentioning is that not only are Helly and Helena versions of the same person, but Helly is well aware of that and I think is repenting for it on some level.
For me, Helly was the real main character of the series, at least in the beginning, because she's the only one who deliberately acts against her destiny, pushes Mark to question himself, and ultimately leads everyone to rebellion. It's great that, at the end, we discover that her outie is also a "main character", but on the other side.
I think Helly's outtie said "you're not a person," to push her further towards rebellion (and possibly knowing the rest of her team would be watching, as a way to clue them in to how they're seen by their outties). I think she wants to destroy the family business, but can't do it as herself, so knowing her core personality, offers herself up for the severance procedure knowing her Innie won't go quietly.
I think there might be a twist where Helena, despite being who she is, is actually against Lumen/severance. She puts herself in knowing that her core-being is a fighter, imagining she will reject it. Maybe she is a second black sheep of the family. Her rejection video -- her message to herself, she has to know that this is so over the top harsh that it's going to piss off her inny to some crazy degree. Even after self harm attempts she continues to throw herself back inside the trap, rather than pulling out of this publicity stunt
This Helena thing, of course is intentional. Everything is intentional in a brilliant show like that. So is the Hell in Helly.
I will enjoy all your videos equally
You gonna be real successful, happy I can say I was here at the beginning
Just binge watched this weekend. ABSOLUTELY THE best show in years.
That’s a very nice compliment to Britt Lower that you think she’s in her early to mid 20s. She was 35 when season 1 was filming.
The part that really haunts me: if Helly R. is a sort of distilled version of Helena, with her knowledge and social context stripped away but something of the self remaining, then there is a