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Season 2 – Severance

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Jan 2025

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Mystery & Thriller

Sci-Fi

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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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Clarisse Loughrey

Flicks (AU, NZ, UK)

Apr 3

Now that Severance has started to prod at these more existential questions about the self - well, it’s only made the show richer and, quite frankly, more loveable.

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Emily Bootle

New Statesman

Mar 21

The redemption arc in many modern stories is a character finding themselves; there is no such neatness here. Severance shows us that if there is a true self, it is elusive, fleeting, transformed before you can grab it.

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Caroline Framke

Boston Globe

Mar 20

In order to enjoy “Severance,” I just don’t need -- or even really want -- to explicitly understand every part of it. Sometimes, a room full of goats can just be a room full of goats.

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Kristen Maldonado

Pop Culture Planet

Jan 4

Season 2 highlights include the fascinating switcheroo of Britt Lower’s Helly R and Helena, as well as the emotionally devastating "Chikhai Bardo" episode. It unravels Ms. Casey’s true origins, while giving Dichen Lachman space to truly shine.

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Mel Campbell

ScreenHub

Dec 29

Nothing in 2025 had me more captivated, more ironically … Having seduced viewers into delighting in the aesthetic rituals of Lumon Industries’ corporate mystery cult, Severance … should prompt us never to let corporations into the windmills of our minds.

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Stefania Sarrubba

Screensphere

Nov 24

Pushing an emotional payoff whose outlines are much more defined, Severance sheds some of the amusing quirks of season 1 but gains a harrowingly existentialist tone.

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Troy R

@Grim16 3d

Second season was good in that it kind of bucked against the craziness a little harder. The acting was good but not spectacular, some people mentioned they over used the F word, which I kind of felt like it was oddly chosen to be said more often, not that I care but didn't feel like the characters. Lot more scene diversity this season, but I kind of disliked how nothing really connected. Like every episode besides a few key moments were wholly their own thing and thus created for a feeling of like... "Did we skip an episode." Endings of the stories for certain things felt really poorly done and frankly the final ending sucked. Interesting to see some character changes in the show, but a lot of the stories that were told were very random and often not very beneficial to the main story. I like the show, pushing it to 3 seasons doesn't feel right, well see if they justify it. And yeah there's another season, somehow.

Brittany C

@BCMusic 5d

Yes. Most memorable and memorizing TV since I've been alive. Im obsessed.

Chris M

@Enthrisac 6d

Even more use of the "F" word spoils a good sci fi idea especially for families

Josh G.

@TheBoozeGuy Mar 1

I feel like I wasted hours of my life to be let down by that awful ending.

Damien H

@nopeoz Feb 27

Following up on the quality of season 1 was essentially impossible. They managed it.

Miguel A.

@ViktRank Feb 22

A great tv show! I enjoyed it!

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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

The After Hours

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

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Episode 10

Aired Mar 20, 2025

Cold Harbor

Mark forms a shaky alliance in an all-or-nothing play, while the team makes a dangerous last stand.

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