Following last night’s Season Two finale, Apple TV+ has confirmed — unsurprisingly — that Severance will return for a third season. The news was announced Friday morning, March 21, after Ben Stiller, the show’s director and executive producer, tweeted at Apple CEO Tim Cook: “So some fansare asking for Season …
Read More »'Severance' Episode 7: Take My Wife, Please
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Severance, “Chikhai Bardo,” which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Lumon management has spent much of Severance Season Two letting the innies get away with everything short of murder. They are largely unsupervised. They barely do any work. They were granted …
Read More »'Severance' Episode 6: My Chemical Romance(s)
This post contains spoilers for this week’s Severance episode, “Attila,” which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Midway through “Attila,” Gretchen impulsively kisses Dylan during her latest trip to the severed floor. Dylan, awestruck by this wonderful woman and this romantic gesture, laments that he can’t be with her all …
Read More »'The Monkey' Is One Long, Sick Joke Without a Punch Line
“Don’t call it a toy!” This sentiment is alternately groaned and shrieked more than a few times in relation to the title character of director Osgood Perkins’ horror movie, and with good reason: Unless you count the short-lived Fisher-Price’s My First Anthrax kit, most toys do not cause mass death …
Read More »'Severance' Episode 5: Funeral for a Friend
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Severance, “Trojan’s Horse,” which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Among the most disorienting aspects of last week’s spectacularly weird field trip was that it came immediately after an episode that ended with Reghabi reintegrating Mark’s innie and outie selves. Why …
Read More »'Severance' Returns: How to Watch Season Two Online
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s time to return to the office. Apple TV’s Severance is back at Lumon Industries after a three-year wait and a thrilling Season One finale. The second season …
Read More »Praise Kier: 'Severance' Is Back and It's Still Great
In the modern labor economy, when every worker in every industry is being asked to do more with less, when getting a work text or Slack message at 9 p.m. doesn’t seem improbable, when the capriciousness of the powers that be seems to be growing at the same exponential rate …
Read More »Adam Scott Stumbles Into Lumon's New Hires In 'Severance' Season Two Teaser
It’s time for Lumon Industries employees to clock in. Following a dizzying Severance Season One finale, Apple TV+ released a Season Two teaser Wednesday for the workplace thriller. It begins with severed employee Mark, played by Adam Scott, stepping out of an elevator and sprinting aimlessly through the white, narrow …
Read More »'Severance' Season Two Trailer Ups the Tension for the Innies
A teaser for the second season of Severance previews more tension and regret for Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, and John Turturro. Although not much happens in the half-minute or so clip, it gives a sense of how Apple TV+’s pseudo-serious satire of Americans’ inability to achieve a work-life …
Read More »'Welcome Back': 'Severance' Season 2 Teaser Is Finally Here
Lumon employees in the work-life balance thriller Severance are clocking back in. As Adam Scott‘s Mark returns to work, a grinning Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) greets him with balloons that appear to have Mark’s face printed on them, according to an Apple TV+ teaser. “Welcome back,” Milchick says in the …
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