‘Severance’s Dieter Eagan story, explained

“Woe’s Hollow” is Resignation‘s biggest turn to date.

The episode swaps Lumon’s offices for a snow -covered walk through Dieter Eagan National Forest, reveals that Helena Eagan (Britt Lower) posed as her Innie Helly for the last four episodes and goes back to Irving (John Turturro). It’s already a lot, and we haven’t even talked about the strange “twins” lumon made of poking! (Don’t think of them as clones yet: Resignation Credit them as “Shadow Mark”, “Shadow Helly” and so on.)

In the middle of all these game-changing moments lies a disturbing story from Lumon founder Kier Eagan’s Childhood. In the story, he and his twin brother Dieter take out the same forests that the inns are in. What starts as a story of close brothers ends up in tragedy, complete with wood-tinging body horror and some messaging against masturbation thrown in for a good measure. But Kier and Dieter’s journey is not only more bisar Eagan propaganda for the inns to swallow – it also speaks to Innies’ situation as cut individuals.

What happens in Resignation‘s Dieter Eagan story?

The story of Dieter and Kier is part of the fourth Appendix to Lumons Conservation manual. (Hopefully Apple is releasing it fully as they did with You are you and Lexington letter.) According to Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) dictated Kier the fourth appendix in the last hours before his death, and it is “a text of such holiness that it is prohibited on the cut floor.”

In the first story from the fourth appendix, a young Dieter Kier persuades to run away to the forest and “Live as Paupers.” During their time in the desert, dieter would often hide in the woods at night to masturbate.

One day, Kier Dieter tells them to return home and continue their work on their father’s Ether Mill. (Childwork Alert!) Dieter protests and then transforms into a tree in a rather gnarly sequence that involves his eye that pops out and sap pours from the plug. Kier runs to Woes Hollow’s waterfalls to drown the sounds of Diete’s disorder. There he meets the temperament’s woe (which Irving later encounters in a dream sequence) described as “a gaunt bride, half of a natural women’s height.”

Instead of allowing him for a moment to provide for his brother, Woe Kier says that “(his death) is yours do. You suffered his missing. Now he is no brother. Only chaos’ whore.” Comforting things!

Dieter Eagan’s death is a parable of Lumon’s view of work and sex.

Despite Mr. Milchick’s claims that “every word is truth”, Dieter and Kier’s story is clearly a precautionary narrative for the inns about the dangers of the outside world – and an increased parable intended to enforce Lumon’s values ​​to work diligently and serve the company.

Dieter and Kier’s time in the woods highlight their different approaches to life and present one brother as a highlight of goodness and the other as a precautionary narrative. While Kier will return to work with their father, Dieter will just continue to shake his family duty. Dieter is also often associated with dirt. The Fourth Appendix describes him as “unwashed”, criticizes his “lack of” and feels him as a “whore.” Masturbation is presented as sinful, but also wasted, with dieter “Games (ling) his descent on Earth” A apparent reference to a lack of care of the Eagan family line. Apparently, it is and his propensity for child labor is punished by death by wooden transformation, while Kier’s need to return to work and family (which is the same to him) means he can live.

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Especially the masturbation passage sheds light on Lumon’s contemporary views on sex and intimacy. The only time the inns are allowed is any kind of sex or intimacy at the waffle party, but even this intimacy is dressed in a Kier mask. It’s sex, determined, but it’s sex in service to Kier. Meanwhile, Dieter’s “deficient” masturbation sex is in service to himself, which Kier and his world philosophy cannot comply.

Now, if we take Kier and Dieter’s story to face value, the two really are twin brothers. (In what case, am I convinced that Kier was actually murdering his brother in the woods.) But what if dieter was simply the name Kier gave part of himself that he would suppress? What if Kier’s journey to the forest ended up pushing every aspect of him who wanted freedom from work or who had any merry thoughts? In this case, the story has an extra layer of a man fighting, and ultimately wins a kind of moral battle against his consciousness. Either way, however, the result of the story is the same. The virtuous Kier survives, but Dieter strikes from Kiers Road to Goodness and “Roil (S) Nature’s Wrath”, as Mr. Milchick would say that.

The relationship between Kier and Dieter speaks to Innies’ relationship with their outies.

The story of Dieter’s passing (whether he is a real twin or a symbol of Kier’s oppressed feelings) is a reminder to the inn about the value of the work and the dangers of desire. But the twin factor of history adds a new layer to the inns that cut off individuals to war with their own consciousness.

The Fourth Appendix presents Kier and Dieter as two sides of the same coin. Both are eagans who work for their father and they are so close that they are Bosome friends. Still, they differ in terms of key values. Similarly, the Innuers and their outies are also two sides of the same coin. They are so close that they share a body, but their personalities vary wildly. The inclusion of their shadow itself also acts as a visual representation of their twin with their outies.

With this in mind, the story seems to be asking the inns, “Which Eagan brother do you want to be?” Will they choose the diligent worker or the merry pauper wannabe? Remember, the guy who chose the latter turned into a tree, so choose very Careful!

The parable puts Kier and Dieter – two halves of the same whole – in competition with each other, a step that can speak to conflict between the inn and the exterior down the line. It also emphasizes that half of a couple could be knocked down at any time to act against Kier, a threat that becomes too real after Irving’s retirement and the reveal that the Glasgow block has kept Helly R. locked away , while Helena is on the cut floor.

Dieter Eagan’s history has extra impact on Helena.

For Mark (Adam Scott), Irving and Dylan (Zach Cherry), their time in Woes Hollow the first time they’ve heard of Dieter Eagan even existing. But for Helena, who has grown up with Eagan propaganda, this story must have been with her throughout her life.

Like Kier in history, Helena is expected to maintain the Eagan road. (Kier forbids her father to call her a “fathically mop” again!) To act as Helly R., but Helena has the opportunity to show contempt for the story, a moment to be released in view of Lumon’s stiffness, and one who Also feels like it is skewed far more against Dieter Eagan’s Life Philosophy than Kiers.

Another moment that feels like dieter? Helena has sex with Mark in Woe’s Hollow. Yes, maintaining Mark’s confidence and love is all for Lumon, but Helena specifically seeks joy for herself-inclusive self-satisfaction that she is one-over her own indie when it comes to intimacy with Mark. She embraces her inner diet, a comparison there Resignation Highlights by intercuting the sex scene with Irving’s dream of woe.

Like Dieter, Helena is punished for her actions in Woe’s Hollow when Irving realizes that she is not Helly at all. He brings her to the waterfall – the same place where Kier drowned the sounds of Dieter’s pain – and tries to kill her and bring Helly back. It is a full circle moment for another Eagan that stepped down from the Kiers path. Fortunately, there was less wood SAP and Eye Loss this time.

Resignation Season 2 now streams on Apple TV+with a new episode every Friday.

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