In the event you’ve watched each seasons of “Severance,” you realize that Britt Decrease — who performs her innie Helly R. and outie Helena Eagan on Dan Erickson’s creative “office” sequence on Apple TV+ — is a very, actually good actor. I am going to circle again to all of that and reward her in a bit, however earlier than she rose to worldwide fame and acclaim on “Severance,” Decrease appeared in a ton of initiatives, together with an episode of “It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia.”
Earlier than “Severance,” Decrease confirmed up in films like 2015’s “Sisters” (with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler because the titular siblings) and cult hit TV exhibits like “Man Searching for Girl,” the place she performs Lisa Greenberg, the older sister to Jay Baruchel’s lead Josh Greenberg. Decrease additionally labored on the procedural sequence “Unforgettable,” Jason Reitman’s Hulu comedy “Informal,” the short-lived Craig Robinson sequence “Ghosted” (which additionally featured Decrease’s future “Severance” co-star Adam Scott), and even an episode of Ryan Murphy’s spin-off “American Horror Tales.” Now that Decrease is all over the place because of “Severance,” you may simply be capable of spot her within the “All the time Sunny” episode “The Gang Will get Romantic,” the season 14 premiere of FXX’s long-running comedy (although it isn’t the longest-running live-action sequence in TV historical past, really). So, who did Decrease play within the episode, and the way did the central gang on “All the time Sunny” torment her?
Britt Decrease performs a befuddled houseguest on It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia
In “The Gang Will get Romantic,” roommates and finest mates Dennis Reynolds (Glenn Howerton) and Ronald “Mac” McDonald (Rob McElhenney) provide you with yet one more harebrained scheme to lure ladies into their condo — they will checklist their condo as an Airbnb in a state of affairs that Mac decides is a “meet-cute” (sure, like one you’d discover in a romantic comedy). In their very own run-down condo, Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day) and Dennis’ dad Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) resolve to do the identical factor, regardless that the 2 males share a mattress and, amongst different disgusting habits, Frank repeatedly cleans his toes with what he calls a “toe-knife.”
When Britt Decrease’s Lisa exhibits up, Dennis and Mac share one in all their rooms and provides her the free one … however they’re upset when her husband Greg (Timm Sharp) comes together with her. Naturally, the 2 males frantically listen in on the couple and notice they’re preventing, so Mac tries to create a romantic comedy gadget by setting Greg up with the remaining member of the gang, Dee Reynolds (Kaitlin Olson). In the event you’ve ever watched “It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia,” you realize that Dee is not significantly easy in situations like this, so she fully screws it up and freaks Greg out within the course of, so Mac unexpectedly switches gears and decides he ought to seduce Greg as a result of he heard the couple arguing about “Teddy” and assumes that Greg had an affair with one other man. (Oh, and in Charlie and Frank’s condo, they’re upset when the Austrians they assume shall be two scorching women are a father and son, however the 4 of them end up to have fairly a bit in widespread.)
Teddy, because it seems, is the title of Lisa and Greg’s deceased youngster (which sounds darkish in the event you’ve by no means watched the present however is extraordinarily on-brand for the sequence, general). There was no method Mac and Dennis had been going to achieve this plan, however the truth that they reopened this emotional wound definitely would not assist! Decrease is nice within the episode, which will not shock you in the event you’ve seen her astounding twin efficiency on “Severance.”
Britt Decrease performs two roles on Severance — and proves she’s one of many best actors working at this time within the course of
Okay, so the essential plot of “Severance” is that the present’s central employer, Lumon Industries, gives a severance process to a lot of its staff; after you obtain the process, your “innie” goes to work within the bowels of Lumon’s most important constructing, and while you depart, you resume life as your “outie” in the true world. Alongside innies Mark S. (Adam Scott), Irving B. (John Turturro), and Dylan G. (Zach Cherry), Britt Decrease’s Helly R. works in Macrodata Refinement, although the true nature of the quartet’s work would not actually come into focus till the top of season 2 (and even then, it is nonetheless largely a thriller). In the course of the season 1 finale, although, we be taught one thing surprising about Helly R.’s outie: she’s really Helena Eagan, the heiress to all of Lumon and a member of the sinister and mysterious Eagan household.
Once we reunite with Helly R. and the opposite three innies throughout the season 2 premiere of “Severance,” it is proper on the heels of their daring additional time contingency stunt within the earlier season’s finale (which allowed the innies to enter the outie world and pose as their very own outies to try to perceive their existence extra clearly, at which level Helly R. learns who she actually is). In the event you watch (or re-watch) the beginning of season 2, you may discover one thing is type of off about Helly R. — and it is as a result of she’s really Helena, who’s posing as her personal innie. (We by no means actually be taught why she does this, however get some perception into the matter after we see Helena rewatching footage of Mark S. and Helly R. passionately kissing on the severed flooring). This twist is revealed in season 2’s excellent episode “Woe’s Hole” — however as for anybody insisting that Helena continues to be posing as her innie on the severed flooring within the season 2 finale “Chilly Harbor,” that principle has been debunked by Decrease herself.
“It is All the time Sunny in Philadelphia” is streaming on Hulu, and “Severance” is streaming on Apple TV+.
