“Woe’s Hollow”

• Creator: Dan Erickson
• Starring: Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, Patricia Arquette, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman

Grade: A

Warning: This review of Severance season 2 episode 4 will contain spoilers.

There’s a number of reasons I’m glad that Severance isn’t streaming on a binge streamer like Netflix, but episode 4 is further proof that the weekly drop is the perfect model for the show. It’s not that dropping the entire season all at once entirely prevents showrunners from making the kind of left-field episodes like “Woe’s Hollow”, but they’re typically more inclined to push the narrative in continuous ways. The episode comes essentially out of left field based on where the show ended last week, but it’s one of the best episodes of the series so far.