The wait is over.
Nearly three years after “Severance” Season 1 premiered on Apple TV+, the primary eight minutes of Season 2 at the moment are obtainable on the streaming service. Apple launched the opening of Season 2, Episode 1 practically a month earlier than its scheduled premiere on January 17, 2025.
“Severance” Season 1 ended with Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Decrease), and Irving (John Turturro) experiencing their lives outdoors of Lumon Industries, because of coworker Dylan (Zach Cherry) staying behind to override the corporate’s management over their break up minds. Irving drove to the home of his Lumon love Burt (Christopher Walken), Helly found that her Outie is definitely descended from the corporate founder, and Mark discovered that his Outie’s late spouse is former Lumon worker Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman) — and that his boss Ms. Cobel (Patricia Arquette) was additionally his neighbor.
Season 2 picks up instantly after — a minimum of for Mark’s Innie. His eyes blink open within the Lumon elevator, and for the primary jiffy of the episode he runs across the severed flooring’s sanitary white hallways, noticing some new decor however largely not a soul. He lastly returns to Macro Information Refinement, the place he finds none of his mates, however three new colleagues — and a brand new flooring supervisor, Miss Huang (Sarah Bock), who seems to be barely sufficiently old to hitch the workforce.
After the chilly open, Mr. Milchick (Trammell Tillman) explains that Mark’s outdated MDR crew have been hailed as heroes for what they did 5 months in the past (!), and that they turned “the face of Severance reform.” He has no like to spare for Cobel, who he says was believed to be pursuing a relationship with each Mark’s Innie and Outie. Regardless of Milchick’s claims that Lumon has reformed, he tells Mark that none of his different colleagues agreed to return to the corporate.
That may be true for now — although Milchick isn’t identified for his honesty — however the Season 2 trailer depicts the outdated MDR crew reuniting on the severed flooring, discussing what they noticed outdoors and what to do subsequent. Mark is on a mission to rescue his Outie’s ex-wife, whoever and wherever she is, and he’ll have to slide previous a stronger, smarter, and extra brutal firm to take action.
“Severance” Season 2 will include 10 episodes; the premiere episode streams globally on Apple TV+ on Friday January 17, 2025. Subsequent episodes will roll out each Friday by way of March 21.