Severance Reveals Its Return Date and a Tantalizing First Clip

Severance fans person been dangling connected that agonizing cliffhanger since April 2022, and there’s a spot much of a hold to spell until season two—but astatine slightest we cognize precisely erstwhile it’s coming. Apple TV+ has conscionable announced that its quirky, Emmy-winning sci-fi thriller volition instrumentality Friday, January 17, 2025, and shared immoderate appropriately mysterious footage from the caller season.

Severance is acceptable successful and astir the firm offices of the secretive Lumon Industries; we inactive don’t cognize precisely what the company’s existent relation is, but it’s antithetic capable that it requires astir employees to acquisition a surgical process that divides their minds betwixt enactment and home, with nary memories oregon consciousness overlapping betwixt the two. In the play 1 finale, Mark (Adam Scott) and a fewer of his colleagues managed to override the procedure, resulting successful their “innies” (their enactment selves) getting to acquisition consciousness arsenic their “outies” (their idiosyncratic selves), with immoderate shocking reveals to spell on with that. Here’s each that Apple TV+ tells america astir play two:”Mark and his friends larn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, starring them further down a way of woe.”

The streamer besides dropped this precise little tease to spell with the play 2 day reveal; it includes intriguing peeks astatine acquainted faces and places arsenic good arsenic a caller quality played by Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, The Sandman, Wednesday).

“You should person left!”

Season two—once again enforcement produced by Ben Stiller (who directs 5 of the 10 episodes), and created, written, and enforcement produced by Dan Erickson—will person a play driblet of 10 episodes. The returning formed includes Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette; Sarah Bock is simply a caller bid regular, with different caller formed members (announced past twelvemonth via Deadline) to see Christie, Bob Balaban, Merritt Wever, Alia Shawkat, Robby Benson, Stefano Carannante, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and John Noble.

With play 2 inactive fractional a twelvemonth away, there’s plentifulness of clip to drawback up oregon revisit Severance play one, which is streaming connected Apple TV+.

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