#markisinlovewithhelly

patricia arquette’s read of helly and mark’s new love and relationship - x

"… maybe Helly's first time connecting with someone on the outside and being, like, wow, that's the person who loves the person that I love, but on the outside" Britt Lower at the AMC panel

"The person he is in love with is right down the hall..." Adam Scott at the AMC panel

Adam Scott being the biggest Helena Eagan defender, caught in 4k via BuzzFeedUK

"From the start of that episode, Helly is on board with helping Mark get Gemma out. And I think during the process of trapping Milchick in the bathroom and realizing there are all of these other innies, this whole new department that they didn't even know existed, Choreography and Merriment. And then her friend, her brother, in Dylan, comes back to help her. I think standing on that desk and remembering her friend Irving, she realizes that all of these consciousnesses matter as well. And she's a gut instinct character, so she just runs. And how it was kind of contextualized to me was that Helly realizes that they have more numbers on their side than they thought at the beginning of that day. And she wants to see her friend, the love of her life for the last time. She really does let him choose, you know. I see him at that door for quite a few seconds before she even shows up, and he's having that thought process himself of choosing, do I want to exist? And so, yeah, it becomes this question of, like, do the innies lives matter, and do they want to live?"

"I am not sure if there's any other decision for him to make. I think he was in a spot where, you now, before Helly shows up, he is sort of hesitating, and I think that he is thinking about the fact that he doesn't know 100% if he walks through the door, if he continues to exist or not. I mean, it's sort of a coin flip at that point because he doesn't know at that point if he can trust his outie. But then Helly appears, and he is in love with her, and she is his whole life essentially and the person on the other side of the door is someone that he knows as Ms Casey, so he doesn't have those same feelings. [...] I certainly understand the choice, considering what was laid out in front of him." Adam Scott, for Hits Radio, March 2025

"And he's madly in love with Helly" Adam Scott, PaleyFest LA 2025