January 7th 2025.
After a three-year wait, the highly anticipated second season of Apple TV Plus drama Severance is finally upon us, and it's receiving rave reviews. The first season, starring Adam Scott, already has a near-perfect rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and it looks like season two is on track to follow suit.
Fans have been eagerly awaiting the return of this "trippy" show, created by Ben Stiller, which follows office worker Mark and his team of employees who have chosen to have their memories divided between work and personal life through surgery. As Mark welcomes his newly-severed colleague Helly to the team, their outside lives begin to intertwine with their work, revealing unsettling truths about their job at Lumon.
The season one finale left viewers on the edge of their seats with a shocking cliffhanger, as the work halves finally catch a glimpse of the real world with jaw-dropping consequences: Helly discovers she's the heir to the company and Mark's supposedly dead wife is alive.
Now, season two is back with a bang, and creator Dan Erickson has promised a "dire" fallout for our group of rebels. In an interview with Vanity Fair, he explained, "We very much wanted to put our heroes in a scarier place because season 1 ends with them poking the bear. But the question for season 2 was: 'What happens when the bear pokes back? What's the fallout of this victory they had?' And I think, without giving much away, the fallout is dire."
And it seems that the long wait for season two has paid off. With a reported budget of $200 million, this new season has been hailed as "surreal, stylish, and worth the wait" by Variety. The review goes on to say that "Severance lives or dies not by an airtight, detail-dense story, but by sustaining an eerie sense of unreality. Season 2 fulfills this with deceptive ease."
Screenrant also gave the new season a glowing five-star review, calling it "a stunning finale that is somehow on par with the first season's gasp-worthy ending." They go on to praise the show as "one of the best shows on television right now," while SlashFilm declares it "the series to beat in 2025."
IndieWire describes the new season as "deeper and darker," BBC hails it as "even more mind-bending," and Decider boldly declares it a "masterpiece [that] will exceed your wildest dreams."
Already, the show has received 14 Emmy nominations and has won awards for Main Title Design and musical score. In an interview with Variety, Ben Stiller addressed the delay in getting new episodes, saying, "It's been an interesting, trying time over the last few years to make things, on all levels for people. So to keep that focus on trying to make the best possible season, being aware that it's taken a long time. I, like other people, get frustrated when things take a long time. I want to have the next season sooner. So I understand that feeling of the expectation."
But now, eager viewers are finally on the home stretch, with the new ten-episode season set to premiere on Friday, January 17. Each episode will air every Friday, and the first season is available to stream now.
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