Severance‘s First Season 2 Teaser Welcomes You Back to Work

The archetypal teaser for Severance play two is disorienting, befuddling, and explains adjacent to thing astir what’s to come—which is precisely what we privation to spot successful immoderate and each selling for Apple TV+’s outstanding workplace thriller. With caller episodes yet arriving January 17, we’re conscionable good lone getting a tiny glimpse of Adam Scott’s Mark Scout roaming the bluish and achromatic hallways of Lumon Industries. And, what’s this… a caller name? New co-workers?

Set successful a dystopian world—mostly wrong an especially dystopian bureau complex—Severance imagines a institution that performs a process connected astir of its employees, making it truthful their memories are wholly divided betwixt their enactment and location lives. In play one, a fistful of workers go funny astir what Lumon Industries really does, and astir what’s happening successful their real-world lives. The cliffhanger near america hangin conscionable arsenic they’d hacked into the exertion that divides their “innie” and “outie” minds and made immoderate shocking discoveries astir themselves—only for the hack to beryllium abruptly, heartbreakingly reversed.

Here’s the authoritative statement for the show, which is directed and enforcement produced by Ben Stiller, and created, written, and enforcement produced by Dan Erickson: “In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a squad astatine Lumon Industries, whose employees person undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories betwixt their enactment and idiosyncratic lives. This daring experimentation successful ‘work-life balance’ is called into question arsenic Mark finds himself astatine the halfway of an unraveling enigma that volition unit him to face the existent quality of his work… and of himself. In play two, Mark and his friends larn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, starring them further down a way of woe.”

Along with Scott and, arsenic seen successful the teaser, Tramell Tillman, Severance‘s returning formed includes Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, and Christopher Walken, with Sarah Bock joining arsenic a bid regular for play two. New formed members, immoderate of whom popular up above, see Gwendoline Christie, Merritt Wever, John Noble, Alia Shawkat, Bob Balaban, Robby Benson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and more.

Severance play 2 volition tally 10 episodes; it’ll debut globally connected Apple TV+ Friday, January 17, 2025 with caller episodes each Friday done March 21.

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