The first season finale of Severance ended on a cliffhanger, which will likely be resolved sometime during show’s second installment. But the Apple TV+ series still has a lot more questions to pose, from the looks of a trailer released Saturday at the CCXP24 convention in São Paulo.
The trailer (watch it below) finds Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Irv (John Turturro) and Dylan (Zach Cherry) back at Lumon, where they’ve apparently gained renown as the faces of “severance reform,” according to Milchick (Tramell Tillman). Mark remains unsatisfied, however, and is continuing to seek out answers about what’s really going on at Lumon.
The trailer also reveals more about the scope of season two than a mood-setting teaser released in October did. The four refiners are still unsure of what they saw when their Innies broke out — “It’s not our world up there, Irv notes — but Mark especially is driven to find out, especially as it relates to his co-worker and, in the Outie world, wife, Miss Casey/Gemma (Dichen Lachmann).
Apple describes season two this way: “Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.”
Season two of Severance is set to premiere on Jan. 17, 32 months after the end of the first season in April 2022. In addition to Scott, Lower, Turturro, Cherry and Tillman, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, Christopher Walken and Academy and Patricia Arquette will return for season two. Sarah Bock and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson join the cast.
Dan Erickson created Severance and executive produces with Ben Stiller (who also directs five episodes in season two), John Lesher, Jackie Cohn, Mark Friedman, Beau Willimon, Jordan Tappis, Sam Donovan, Caroline Baron, Richard Schwartz, Nicholas Weinstock, Scott and Arquette. Fifth Season is the studio. Uta Bresiewitz, Sam Donovan and Jessica Lee Gagné also directed episodes of season two.
