Severance | Season 2
(2025)

SEVERANCE (Season 2) 👔 Episodes 1-6

Some series have a hard time capitalizing on the greatness of a first season; SEVERANCE somehow found a way to level up and exceed it—in every way you wouldn’t even imagine.

Season two picks up with Mark (Adam Scott—Parks and Recreation, Step Brothers, Madame Web) heading back to work with his four-man team at Lumon’s Macrodata Refinement Division, just to find out they no longer work there. This forces him to reach out to management and strong-arm them into bringing them back. Their return sparks their curiosity even more as they dig further into the going-ons of the SEVERANCE program.

I absolutely love this show.

If you’ve ever worked in any type of job, the idea of work/life balance, or the lack thereof, is something that would have crossed your mind at least once. What this show does conceptually by severing the work self from the off-the-clock self and exploring how these two versions of ourselves would exist within the same mind is incredibly fascinating.

It’s such a rewarding viewing experience having a show be this smart with its writing yet not having to use what we don’t know to keep us engaged, instead slowly unravelling bits and pieces of information to keep us informed and our hunger for more satiated.

What happens at work stays at work, is what the first season had us believing. The second season reminds us that spending the majority of your waking hours in a single place makes it tough not to take work with you—everywhere you go.

The mystery of this show is alive and well. My worry coming into this season was how they would build on the curiosity of this world in a way that wouldn’t diminish the fact we now know the innie/outtie aspect of the story, but learning of Operation Pearl Harbour, or the conspiracy surrounding what that may entail is a Pandora’s box of potential ideas ready to be explored.

Episode 4 - Woe's Hollow is the most audacious piece of storytelling of the season so far. It expedites a lot of what the characters don’t know into a frenzy state of confusion which felt a little out place and random to where the story was prior to that point. It doesn’t detract from the brilliance of this season; it just felt slightly jarring.

I will say it’s smart of them to make this a Friday show because I don’t know how people would be able to operate watching this Sunday night knowing Monday morning they have to be in that same kind of office environment lol.

Season two of SEVERANCE is spiraling into control of a story that continues to be mysterious, unflinching, and uncomfortably relatable while honing in on its own brilliance, continuing its run of being one of the best series of the decade. Highly recommend.

Enjoy!

8.9/10 🍿 🎥

Runtime: 50mins
Episodes: 10
Where: New Episodes Stream Fridays on Apple TV+

Severance Review (2025) The Richmond Reviewer - February 2nd, 2025

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