‘Severance’ Season 2 Release Date Revealed Along With Mind-Blowing New Trailer

Apple’s timing for its big Severance Season 2 release date couldn’t be better. I just finished re-watching the first season for the third time last night. I experienced the same feelings I did the first two times around: Elation, frustration and a deep need to know when this show was finally coming back.

Severance was created by Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller, whose studio Red Hour Productions produces the show for Apple TV+. It stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, a worker whose work and life consciousness has been “severed” so that the two halves don’t remember what the other does each day. On the one hand, that sounds pretty liberating: For Mark’s “outie” it’s all leisure time, after all. The dystopian nature of this procedure only becomes apparent when we follow his “innie”—or work self—in his day-to-day life at Lumon, a mysterious corporation with cult-like leanings and sinister motives.

Mark works with a handful of other Lumon employees in the Macrodata Refinement division of Lumon’s Severed Floor. These include Britt Lower as Helly R, John Turturo as Irving B, Zach Cherry as Dylan G, as well as the floor’s overseers, Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman) and Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette). The cast also includes Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Christopher Walken, Dichen Lachman and more, including a few new faces you’ll glimpse in the trailer below:

As you can see, it appears things pick back up directly after the incredibly intense moments the Season 1 finale ended on—at least for Mark S, who “wakes up” in the elevator looking confused and rattled. Time has clearly passed for the rest of the world, however, when we see him enter his cubicle room to find three new co-workers and a grinning Milchick holding balloons with Mark’s face on them. “Welcome back Mark,” Milchick says. “It’s been a minute.”

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Here’s Milchick with the balloons:

Tillman has such a great smile—how he manages to make it also so ominous and threatening is beyond me. The trailer also shows glimpses of other characters, including the shot of Mark and Helly at the top of this post. But “glimpse” is all we get of the rest of the cast.

We see Dylan in a room with someone who I at first thought was another version of himself, but who I now believe is actor Adrian Martinez:

Cobel is in an office we haven’t seen before—perhaps the Lumon boardroom. Has she been rewarded for her diligence at the end of Season 1?

We get a glimpse of Irving in the real world, but also this creepy watermelon head which looks kind of like Irving:

We know that Irving has been painting the down elevator—which we only know Ms. Casey has entered for sure, but which is obviously somewhere Irving himself has been. It was a traumatizing enough experience to enter into his “outie” subconcsious. Is this Milchick holding the sketch?

There’s also this missing person sketch of Gemma / Ms. Casey, which looks like it’s printing on the Severed Floor printer:

What other clues did you spot? Severance returns for its Season 2 premiere on Friday January 17th, 2025 with episodes airing weekly on Apple TV after that. Less than three months to go, though this also means nearly three years will have passed between seasons. I will 100% be recapping / reviewing each episode as it airs here on this blog. I really hope Season 2 is a worthy successor to the first season, which is easily one of my top 5 seasons of TV ever.

"In Severance, Mark Scout (Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives," Apple’s synopsis of Season 2 reads. "This daring experiment in 'work-life balance’ is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself. In season 2, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe."

A path of woe doesn’t sound good! Also, will we learn the secret of the baby goats? So many questions . . . .

In related news, one of Apple’s other excellent sci-fi mysteries is also returning soon. Read all about Silo Season 2 right here.

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