From surreal Music Dance Experiences to the rooms stuffed with child goats, Severance is a splendidly bizarre present. However nothing within the present comes near out-weirding the waffle get together.
The waffle get together is the reward Lumon provides to the Refiner of the Quarter. Dylan (Zach Cherry) wins this honor as a part of the Innies’ plan to flee Lumon in Season 1. To obtain the reward, he goes to the reproduction of Kier Eagan’s home within the Perpetuity Wing, eats a stack of waffles, and is then handled to a suggestive dance from a quartet dressed because the 4 Tempers: Woe, Dread, Frolic, and Malice. The message is obvious: The waffle get together is not only a food-based incentive — it is a sex-based one, too.
Ben Stiller and Adam Scott revisited the waffle get together within the Jan. 15 episode of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott, together with podcast visitor John Turturro. For Stiller, the waffle get together — considered one of many Lumon phrases coined by Severance creator and showrunner Dan Erickson — was “kind of an inflection point.”
“It’s almost one of the first questions we had to answer that we’d put out there,” Stiller stated. “You could just be thinking forever, ‘What is a waffle party?’ But we had to somehow show it.”
The query then turned, how far might Severance go along with the waffle get together? How might they set up its risqué nature with out alienating the viewers?
A part of the reply concerned the present’s stylized depiction of the waffle get together, which included choreography by Tara Rodriguez (who additionally helped craft the Music Dance Expertise in Severance‘s “Defiant Jazz” episode) and masks sculpted by Penko Platikanov.
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A kind of masks was a Kier Eagan masks, which Dylan wears whereas mendacity on a reproduction of Eagan’s mattress. That masks particularly stood out to Stiller upon rewatch.
“I hadn’t watched [episode] 8 for a while, and for a second I had forgotten that Dylan had the Kier Eagan mask waiting for him on the bed,” Stiller stated. “Not having watched it for a couple of years… We really went for it in terms of the weirdness of this whole ritual.”
The precise shoot for the waffle get together came about in Yonkers, New York, in a home that’s a part of the Hudson River Museum. It was the final scene shot within the Kier Eagan reproduction home, with Stiller estimating they filmed it at round one or two o’clock within the morning. (They have been beneath stress to get every thing performed, as a result of The Gilded Age could be filming there the following day.)
Scott, already wrapped, stayed behind to look at the waffle get together happen. “It was incredible,” he stated. “[The dancers] were so on point. It was really impressive.”
For Scott and Turturro, the waffle get together took on additional which means as an incentive for his or her Innies.
“Since the entire place and the entire culture of Lumon is devoid of any affection or anything that is even anywhere sex, but these are feelings that all of [the Innies] probably have and don’t understand, this is the ultimate reward,” Scott stated.
“If you’re starved for any kind of connection, rituals take on a stronger resonance,” added Turturro.
Severance Season 2 premieres Jan. 17 on Apple TV+, with a brand new episode each week.
