How ‘Severance’ Filmed the Outdoor Retreat Episode: ‘Nightmare’ Weather, Three Weeks of Scouting and CGI (Plus, Real!) Snow

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Matt Minton mminton@variety.com SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 4 of “Severance,” now streaming on Apple TV+. “Severance” fans are used to the confined office walls and hallways that serve as the only home for the severed employees inside Lumon.

But right away, the latest episode of Season 2, “Woe’s Hollow,” changes the landscape completely. That becomes clear when Irving (John Turturro) wakes up completely alone on a giant slab of ice in the middle of nowhere.

He soon comes across fellow employees Mark (Adam Scott), Dylan (Zach Cherry) and Helly (Britt Lower) — secretly Helena, her outie — as they traverse snowy and icy forests on a mysterious work retreat organized by Mr.

Milchick (Tramell Tillman). Production designer Jeremy Hindle, who also worked on the first season along with “Zero Dark Thirty” and “Top Gun: Maverick,” describes “Woe’s Hollow” as the most challenging episode of the season, because they shot all the exteriors on location.