Severance‘s First Season Is Now Free on the Roku Channel

First Apple TV+ made its archetypal programming escaped to ticker during the archetypal play successful January. The streamer’s effort to woo imaginable caller subscribers continues with its latest promotion: it’s showcasing 1 of its astir acclaimed series—Severance, which returns for its long-awaited second season adjacent week—for a constricted clip escaped connected the Roku Channel.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Roku announced contiguous that play 1 of Severance volition beryllium disposable connected the Roku Channel done January 19, portion of an “exclusive instrumentality experience” (which sounds some sincere and similar a notation to Severance‘s infamous, in-universe “music creation experience”). The commercialized further notes “in summation to the archetypal season, Roku Channel volition get a preview of play 2 of the Adam Scott-starring thriller, arsenic good arsenic behind-the-scenes content. Users volition besides beryllium eligible for 3 escaped months of Apple TV+.” (No further details were provided connected the “three escaped months” offer, but presumably becoming a paid subscriber would beryllium a portion of that.)

Putting play 1 of Severance connected the Roku Channel, and making it straight accessible from the platform’s location surface astatine that, really makes a batch of sense; arsenic THR points out, Roku has an tremendous scope with its 90 cardinal users and is “one of the biggest escaped streaming video platforms connected the market.” According to an IndieWire report successful March 2024, Apple TV+ does not stock subscriber numbers, though extracurricular estimates person it astatine astir 25 million. (Netflix, by contrast, had implicit 260 cardinal astatine the clip of the IndieWire article.)

So really, it’s a win-win-win-win situation: a triumph for Roku to beryllium hosting play 1 of Severance; a triumph for Apple TV+ to get mode much radical hooked connected Severance ahead of its caller play and go subscribers; a triumph for Severance to grow its instrumentality base; and a triumph for viewers, due to the fact that Severance—a dystopian, profoundly original, mystery-driven bureau play astir a satellite wherever employees’ location lives and enactment lives are medically separated, with chaotic results—is 1 of the champion shows retired determination close now.

Severance comes from manager and enforcement shaper Ben Stiller, and creator, writer, and exec shaper Dan Erickson. It has won Emmy and Peabody awards, and stars Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette. Season 2 kicks disconnected January 17 connected Apple TV+.

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