Workplace horror is back next year
A teaser for the second season of Severance features more tension and regret for Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower and John Turturro. While not much happens in the roughly half-minute clip, it gives a sense of how Apple TV+'s pseudo-serious satire of Americans' inability to achieve work-life balance could continue when the show returns on January 17.
The clip opens with the four characters wearing their company IDs as they enter the elevator, which separates their work lives from their personal lives. Their voiceover repeats reading the contract they agreed to in season one. “I know this operation is comprehensive and irreversible,” says Lower's character. This agreement separates people who live in the outside world (“outies”) from those who are inside the work (“innies”). Once the doors are closed, the drama begins with motorcycle rides down the hallways, Lower crawling through a vent, and the four of them looking worriedly at the camera in an empty office. The motto for the season is “Like You Never Left”.
In the first season, Scott's character on both sides of the work-life balance begins to worry about himself and tries to discover the mystery of why he can't remember anything. He ropes in others to help him figure things out, and both worlds begin to crumble. An official description of season 2 suggests the quartet “learn the dire consequences of negligence with the barrier of dismissal, leading them down a path of grief.”
Other actors returning for season two include Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken and Tramell Tillman. Sarah Bock (Boxer) is joining the cast as a season regular, and executive producer Ben Stiller is directing five of the episodes. Series creator and executive producer Dan Erickson wrote the season.
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