Severance's Woe's Hollow filming location Minnewaska explored

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WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Severance season 2

Episode four of Severance season two was titled Woe’s Hollow and saw the Lumon foursome taken out of the office and thrust into the Great Outdoors on their first Outdoor Retreat and Team Building Occurrence (ORTBO).

The latest episode of the hit Apple TV+ thriller was filmed in Minnewaska State Park Preserve in Kerhonkson, New York, which is in the Hudson Valley Region. 

According to the park’s site, the location is situated in Ulster County, New York on the Shawangunk Mountain Ridge, which is more than 2,000 feet above sea level. 

The area is surrounded by rugged, rocky terrain and features multiple waterfalls, three kales and lush green forestry. 

Visitors to Minnewaska State Park Preserve can enjoy various activities, including swimming, rock climbing, bouldering, paddling, cross-country skiing, and even horse riding. 

The Innies were allowed to venture out for the first time ever (Image: APPLE TV)

Director and executive producer Ben Stiller said about shooting Woe’s Hollow: “Episode 204 was very challenging because it was all snow, and so creating the visual landscape for that episode was one of the more fun things we got to do.” 

While Helly R/Helena Eagan actress Britt Lower said: “We had so much fun filming that episode. We were in the wilderness together and it was such a breath of fresh air to go from an office with sort-of pharmaceutical lighting to just like the wide open expansiveness of nature and we had a real true wild experience.”

Speaking on Inside the Episode, Cinematographer Jessica Lee Gagné shed further light on filming: “Minnewaska was a lot. It was a lot for the crew. 

“We’re used to being on our sets and not going out that much, so it was difficult. But it was nice to get out.”  

The team found themselves in unknown terrain (Image: APPLE TV)

Milchick led the ORTBO in Woe’s Hollow (Image: APPLE TV)

Severance’s production designer Jeremy Hindle gave additional insight into how the episode was shot. 

He said: “You know parks are insanely hard to shoot in, so we went and scouted it with the rangers and stuff to explain to them how we could build this without disturbing anything. 

“We had to build, I think, a quarter-mile bridge over all those trees out of scaffolding to get everything in because we couldn’t touch one thing in this forest.”

While the episode marked a change of scenery for the series, Lumon and Kier’s presence hung heavy in the air with a huge cliffhanger at the end with some big consequences coming for Irving (John Turturro) as well as the rest of the Macrodata Refinement team. 

Severance season 2 drops on Apple TV+ on Fridays