'Severance' Season 2 Release Date Revealed Along With Stunning New Trailer

Apple's timing for its big one Severance pay The season 2 release date couldn't be better. I re-watched the first season for the third time last night. I had the same feelings as the first two times: elation, frustration, and a deep need to know when this show would finally come back.

Severance pay 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 consciousness of work and life has been “severed” so that the two halves can no longer remember what the other does every day. On the one hand, that sounds pretty liberating: after all, for Mark’s “outie” it’s just free time. The dystopian nature of this process only becomes clear as we follow his “innie” – or work self – in his everyday life at Lumon, a mysterious company with cult-like tendencies and sinister motives.

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

As you can see, right after the incredibly intense moments that ended the season 1 finale, things seem to be picking up again – at least for Mark S, who “wakes up” in the elevator, confused and unsettled. For the rest of the world, however, time has clearly passed as we see him enter his cabin to find three new colleagues and a grinning Milchick holding balloons with Mark's face on them. “Welcome back, Mark,” says Milchick. “It’s been a minute.”

Here is Milchick with the balloons:

Tillman has such a great smile – how he manages to make it so menacing and menacing at the same time is a mystery to me. The trailer also shows glimpses of other characters, including the shot of Mark and Helly at the top of this post. But we only get a brief glimpse of the rest of the cast.

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

Cobel is in an office we've never seen before – perhaps the Lumon boardroom. Was she rewarded for her hard work at the end of the first season?

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

We know that Irving painted the downstairs elevator – which we only know for certain that Ms. Casey entered, but which is obviously somewhere where Irving himself has been. It was an experience traumatic enough to penetrate his “outie” subconscious. Is this Milchick holding the sketch in his hand?

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

What other clues did you discover? Severance pay returns for its second season premiere on Friday, January 17, 2025. After that, episodes will air weekly on Apple TV. There are still less than three months left, but that also means that almost three years will have passed between seasons. I will 100% recap/review every episode that airs here on this blog. I really hope that Season 2 is a worthy successor to the first season, which is easily one of my top five TV seasons ever.

“In Severance pay“Mark Scout (Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries whose employees have undergone a severance process that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives,” Apple’s Season 2 synopsis reads. “This daring experiment in professional-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 himself. In Season 2, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of messing with the severance pay barrier, leading them further down a path of misery.

A path of suffering 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 great sci-fi mysteries is also returning soon. read all about it silo Season 2 here.

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