“Severance”: Popular Apple TV+ series gets a second season

Friends of the award-winning sci-fi series “Severance” can rejoice: Apple has finally announced the second season. However, patience is still required. According to the company, the show will Only on TV+ on 17th January to return. That will take place more than 30 months after the end of the first season in the spring of 2022. Meanwhile Hollywood is dealing with a raging pandemic, months-long strikes among actors and writers, and internal production problems.

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“Severance” is about a group of employees of a mysterious company called Lumon who had to undergo the so-called “severance”. Working life is separated from private life, leaving them with no memory of themselves. All this is implemented in a dystopian world, the design of which received much critical acclaim – including the retro design in some places. The film stars Adam Scott as Mark Scott and is executive produced by Ben Stiller.

Season 2 will be about the consequences if the “severance” barrier is removed — which is what happened at the end of Season 1. According to Apple, the returning cast includes Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman and John Turturro, as well as Oscar starters Christopher Walken and Patricia Arquette. Sarah Bock is new as a “series regular.”

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Problems on set?

Season 2 of “Severance,” like the first season, will air weekly, so it won’t be available in its entirety until Jan. 17. The show will then run every Friday until March 21. “Severance” received an AFI Award and 14 Emmy nominations, winning two.

In the spring of 2023 there were reports that there were problems with the filming of season 2. According to a report from the portal Puck News, there was “drama behind the scenes”; apparently the two showrunners Mark Friedman and Dan Erickson now absolutely hated each other, which even led to the news that the show was going viral. This should have happened before the start of the first episode. Friedman was said to be about to leave, but producer Ben Stiller convinced him to stay. There were also reportedly problems with the script and costs that were apparently too high.

(B.Sc.)