[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Severance” Season 2, Episode 4, “Woe’s Hollow.” For coverage of earlier episodes, read our previous reviews.]

“Stray not from Kier’s path, lest you roil nature’s wrath.”

Irving (John Turturro) has always been the most devout member of Lumon’s Macrodata Refinement team. Well-versed in the handbook and respectful, if not outright reverent, of the Eagan family mythos, Irving would be the last employee Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) would expect to spoil a company Ortbo (Outdoor Retreat and Team-Building Occurrence) — especially one that’s designed as a reenactment of the founder’s fateful final outing with his secret twin brother.

And yet, it’s Irving who strays from Kier’s path, and thus Irving who sparks the ire of Woe’s Hollow.

In the last few minutes of an eerie, unsettling, and increasingly ominous Episode 4, two shocking developments roll out one right after the other. First, Helly (Britt Lower) is...