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Season 2 – Severance

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Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives; when a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

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Critics Consensus

Masterfully managing its two halves of adroit character study and surreal nightmare, Severance's long-awaited sophomore season makes cognitive dissonance a mind-melting pleasure.

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Will Dunn

New Statesman

This isn’t a story so much as a floating mass of jellyfish tendrils with which the viewer intermittently comes into contact. And the show’s premise is a joke that neither a Hollywood millionaire or a Silicon Valley behemoth have any right to make.

Mar 7, 2025

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Phillip Maciak

The New Republic

While the show giddily draws on the histories of Mormonism and Scientology in crafting this founder’s narrative, there’s originality in the writing, including a particularly memorable new story about the harms of self-pleasure in the great outdoors.

Jan 31, 2025

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Ben Dowell

Times (UK)

The vibe — and vibes are key to this show — continues to be as queasy and airless as the worst office experience. You feel submerged, as if you can almost smell the nylon and morning breath.

Rated: 5/5

Jan 27, 2025

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Diana Keng

Geek Girl Authority

Based on the first six episodes of Season 2, it’s a seamless and natural continuation, fulfilling much of the promise seeded oh-so-many years ago. The plot expands. Characters grow and evolve. Moral questions abound.

Mar 13, 2025

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Brett McCracken

The Gospel Coalition

Perhaps for a generation growing accustomed to blurred lines between work and home, the “severance” pitch sounds like heaven. But quickly in the series, and throughout its two seasons, the reality of being severed turns out to be much more like hell.

Feb 24, 2025

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Tara Ariano

Cracked

My problem with Severance is how its dangling plot threads mostly seem designed to inspire fan theories online, and that being on AppleTV+ will neuter any political commentary it may attempt to inject.

Rated: C-

Feb 20, 2025

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Krish E

With the exception of “Chikhai Bardo,” season 2 meanders and focuses intensely on plot and world building at the expense of character development, resulting in a season that’s a lot more hollow and superficial than the first. The show is still watchable, in large part because of the cinematography, directing, and acting, but with exceptions like the one noted above, audiences who were expecting the show’s writing to be at the caliber of season 1 will feel disappointed.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/15/25

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Merel e

Very slow writing. It misses everything season 1 did have. It is a different show

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/15/25

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Parker W

Missing everything that made season 1 great. Disconnected, slow, uneventful, bad writing, and worst of all, incredibly boring. Like many have said, it’s made very pretentiously. You can tell the creators feel like they can do no wrong after season 1. Well, now we know they definitely can. Season 1 was 5/5, this one is terrible.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/15/25

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Laurie P

There are some TV shows that change television. Some raise to the level of art. Dan Erickson, Ben Stiller and their team on Severance have (so far) accomplished this. Doctoral dissertations will be written about this show. It’s brilliant, terrifying and timely. The acting, direction, writing, scenic design and editing/pacing is perfect. This is the kind of art that makes you sit with it and feel the consequences. I cannot find a fault in this tour de force of speculative fiction. In the footsteps of Orwell, Dick, Butler, Bradbury and Ellison - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/15/25

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michael c

I could have missed this season entirely... what is the point? The writing is so slow and each episode makes me want to watch it less.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/15/25

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Tim S

Glacial. Mostly watch on fast forward for the ten or so lines of plot-moving dialogue (and that’s being generous) in each episode.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/14/25

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Mark

Britt Lower

Helly

Patricia Arquette

Harmony Cobel

Zach Cherry

Dylan

Tramell Tillman

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Episode 1

Aired Jan 17, 2025

Hello, Ms. Cobel

Mark returns to work under different circumstances; secrets from the Outie world come to light.

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Episode 2

Aired Jan 24, 2025

Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig

Outie Mark contemplates the meaning of a message; Lumon grapples with the aftermath of the Overtime Contingency.

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Episode 3

Aired Jan 31, 2025

Who Is Alive?

Mark, Helly, Irving and Dylan search for answers.

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Episode 4

Aired Feb 7, 2025

Woe's Hollow

The team participates in a group activity.

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Episode 5

Aired Feb 14, 2025

Trojan's Horse

Tensions emerge after the team suffers a loss.

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Episode 6

Aired Feb 21, 2025

Attila

Bonds are tested; Mark continues on his path of discovery.

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Episode 7

Aired Feb 28, 2025

Chikhai Bardo

An old romance intersects with a present threat.

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Episode 8

Aired Mar 7, 2025

Sweet Vitriol

Discoveries are made.

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Episode 9

Aired Mar 14, 2025

Mark and Devon team with an ally; Helly investigates further.

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Episode 10

Airs Fri Mar 21

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