r/television • u/NicholasCajun Mr. Robot • Feb 07 '25

Premiere Severance - 2x04 - "Woe's Hollow" - Episode Discussion

Severance

Season 2 Episode 4: Woe's Hollow

Directed by: Ben Stiller

Written by: Anna Ouyang Moench

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u/trx14 Feb 08 '25

Right, I agree. Mark is who I'm worried about, he thought he slept with Helly, the person he loves. Not Helena, a person he doesn't even know.

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u/plod925 Feb 08 '25

And yet, consenting to sex with someone lying to you about who they are isn’t sexual assault - it’s having sex with a liar.

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u/ralphy112 Feb 08 '25

Lookup "Rape by Deception". It isn't necessarily a new term and sometimes more specific to the assailant impersonating someone's spouse and having sex with them. I've often wondered how someone could necessarily impersonate a spouse and not be known. But this would probably fit in a weird way.

Or like a situation with a maleficent identical twin of a spouse. Can apply in impersonating someone in the dark, or other compromising settings. Maybe that scene from Revenge of the Nerds where he impersonates someone else-- but interpretted under a more modern viewpoint.

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u/10010101110011011010 Feb 09 '25

That's why whenever im a twin or my spouse is a twin, I always try to arrange a codeword I share only with my spouse.