"Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig" is the second episode of the second season of the American science fiction psychological thriller television series Severance.

Following the events of the overtime contingency,[a] Milchick (Tramell Tillman) is tasked with doing damage control, and visits the Outies of Dylan (Zach Cherry) and Irving (John Turturro) to tell them they have been fired.

Helena (Britt Lower) is castigated by her father Jame Eagan (Michael Siberry) for her outburst at the Lumon gala.

She and Lumon security enforcer Mr. Drummond (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) meet with Cobel (Patricia Arquette); Helena thanks Cobel for her loyalty, apologizes on behalf of Lumon for how they have treated her, and asks her to return to the company, offering her a promotion to run the "Severance Advisory Council."

Mark (Adam Scott) reawakens at home, with Devon (Jen Tullock) quickly realizing he is no longer in Innie form.

At the end of the day, Mark returns home and runs into Cobel, who he confronts about lying to him for two years about her identity.

Latta visited Severance's New York set, but was only provided specific plot points, without having the opportunity to watch any of the episodes.

Club gave the episode an "A–" and wrote, "As a lifelong Kier devotee, Cobel is shaken up and doesn't seem like she'd stand for this mistreatment.

And even if both the innies and outies are partially in the dark, we now have a pretty good idea of what's happening, and why, as we head deeper down this path.

"[8] Erin Qualey of Vulture gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "Good-bye, Ms. Cobel.

The man certainly earned his stripes this week, doing double-duty house calls to all the refiners, walling up Wellness, creating an absolutely unhinged training video, hiring a whole new MDR team for Mark — his description of Dario R. as a “floater” was curious — and promoting Miss Huang.

"[10] Brady Langman of Esquire wrote, "Severance has made it fairly clear for a long time now that Cobel knows what happened to Gemma.

"[13] Breeze Riley of Telltale TV gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "So far this season, Severance is leaning hard into the mystery box/sci-fi element of the show.

It's already established that the corporate work world is a hellscape and put pieces on the board, and now it's time to see how this twisted game with Mark and the others plays out.

The site wrote, "Milchick convinced Mark that his Innie is happy at Lumon (“The solace he has found down there will make its way to you”), and Tillman's rock-solid certainty almost had us ready to sign up for the severed procedure ourselves.