‘Severance’ Season 2: Everything We Know

After more than two years, Severance season two is finally headed back to the boardroom. Apple TV+ announced on Wednesday, July 10, that the Emmy-winning series will return in 2025 with 10 new episodes. The streamer also shared a mysterious sneak peak of the second season featuring Adam Scott and his fellow Lumon Industries employees, who are warned by new cast member Gwendoline Christie: “You should’ve left.”

Created by Dan Erickson and directed predominantly by Ben Stiller, the series follows Scott’s Mark Scout and a troupe of other corporate underlings who have opted to surgically “sever” their personal lives from their work lives in order to follow the tenets of a radical self-help manifesto.

The show’s twisty season 1 finale, which aired all the way back in April 2022, left viewers clamoring for a follow-up meeting. As months passed with little public progress on the new episodes, reports of upheaval in the show’s own conference room circulated. Stiller, an executive producer on the project who helms the second season’s first five episodes, dispelled the rumors. “No one’s going to the break room,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter) last April. “We’re on the same really slow schedule we’ve always been on. Same target air date we’ve always had. Love our fans and each other and we all are just working to make the show as good as possible.”

Ahead, a preview of what’s to come in Severance’s sophomore season, from buzzy new recruits to that long-awaited premiere date.

Who is in Severance season two?

Scott’s Mark will be joined by colleagues Helly Britt Lower (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro), Dylan (Zach Cherry), Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman), the retired Burt (Christopher Walken), and his withering boss, Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette)—who poses as Mark’s seemingly innocuous neighbor Mrs. Selvig when on the outside. Dichen Lachman plays Mark’s very-much-alive wife Gemma Scout, who is also a co-worker by the name of Ms. Casey within Lumon Industries. Jen Tullock and Michael Chernus round out the returning cast as Mark’s sister Devon and brother-in-law Ricken, respectively.

The season’s new hires include series regular Sarah Bock, as well as Game of Thrones alum Gwendoline Christie, Nurse Jackie’s Merritt Wever, Search Party’s Alia Shawkat, veteran character actor Bob Balaban, Robby Benson, Stefano Carannante, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and John Noble—all playing undisclosed roles, as Deadline reported back in October 2022.

What will Severance season two be about?

AppleTV+ is keeping things vague, offering this one-sentence synopsis: “In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.”

For those who could use a refresher: the ticking time bomb that is Severance’s season 1 finale follows Mark and his Lumon Industries co-workers Helly and Irving as they awake in the “outie” world to uncover the truth about life outside of their oppressive company’s walls. This is made possible by their colleague Dylan, who holds down the levers that break the barrier between “innie” and “outie” worlds wide open.

Upon re-entry into the outside world, Mark learns that the wife he thought was dead has, in fact, been working alongside him on the severed floor of Lumon Industries—a discovery Mark has mere moments to digest before the switch on his severed work self is flipped back. Meanwhile, Helly is devastated to learn that she is a high-ranking Lumon employee, devoted to the Severance program despite her outie self working to derail it. And Irving, who had explored an inner-office romance with Burt before the latter’s retirement, receives his own bit of bad news: Burt is seemingly married to another man.

When asked about the various cliffhangers dangling at the end of Severance’s first installment, Scott previously told Vanity Fair: “I know it’s in some ways cruel and unusual, but I also think it’s just so much fun to be watching something and have that feeling. And when we were doing it, we were thinking the same thing, just like, Oh Jesus, if people are still with us, this is going to be a lot of fun.”

During the same interview, Scott asked: “Did you notice what the very last sound of the episode is?” That sound would be the ding of the elevator on the Lumon severed floor—which also plays a key role in the second season’s first footage.

When does Severance season two come out?

The show’s 10-episode second season—which will have one more installment than the first—will be released on Friday, January 17, 2025, followed by one episode every Friday through March 21.

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