The release date of ‘Severance’ season 2 was revealed along with the new trailer

Apple’s time for big Leaving work The release date for Season 2 couldn’t be better. I just finished rewatching the first season for the third time last night. I experienced the same feelings I experienced the first two times: excitement, disappointment, and a deep need to know when this show was finally coming back.

Leaving work was created by Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller, whose studio Red Hour Productions produces the show for Apple TV+. It stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, a worker whose consciousness of work and life is “disconnected” so that the two halves do not remember what the other does every day. On the one hand, this sounds quite liberating: for Mark’s “outie”, it’s all free time after all. The dystopian nature of this procedure only becomes apparent when we follow the “innie” – or his working self – in his daily life at Lumon, a mysterious corporation with cult tendencies and nefarious motives.

Mark works with a handful of other Lumon employees in the Macrodata Refinement division on Lumon’s Severed Floor. These include Britt Lower as Helly R, John Turturo as Irving B, Zach Cherry as Dylan G, as well as floor supervisors Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman) and Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette). The cast also includes Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Christopher Walken, Dichen Lachman and more, including some new faces you’ll see in the trailer below:

As you can see, it looks like things are picking back up right after the incredibly intense moments in which the Season 1 finale ended – at least for Mark S, who “wakes up” in the elevator feeling confused and shaken. Time has clearly passed for the rest of the world, though, when we see him walk into his dorm room to find three new co-workers and a smiling Milchick holding balloons with Mark’s face on them. “You’re welcome Mark,” says Milchick. “It’s been a minute.”

Here’s Milchick with the balloons:

Tillman has such a great smile – how he manages to make it so ominous and menacing as well is beyond me. The trailer also shows glimpses of other characters, including Mark and Helly’s shot at the top of this post. But the “summary” is all we get from the rest of the cast.

We see Dylan in a room with someone who at first I thought was another version of him, but now I believe is actor Adrian Martinez:

Cobel is in an office we haven’t seen before – possibly Lumon’s boardroom. Was she rewarded for her diligence at the end of Season 1?

We see Irving in the real world, but also this creepy watermelon head that looks a bit like Irving:

We know that Irving painted the lower elevator – which we only know that Mrs. Casey entered for sure, but which is obviously somewhere that Irving himself has been. It was quite a traumatizing experience to tap into his “outie” subconscious. Is this Milchick keeping the outline?

There’s also this missing person sketch of Gemma / Miss Casey, which looks like it’s being printed on the Severed Floor printer:

What other clues did you discover? Leaving work returns for its Season 2 premiere on Friday, January 17, 2025 with episodes airing weekly on Apple TV thereafter. Less than three months remain, though that also means it will be nearly three years between seasons. I will 100% recap / review every episode as it airs here on this blog. I really hope season 2 is a worthy follow up to season 1, which is easily one of my top 5 seasons of TV ever.

“In Leaving workMark Scout (Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries whose employees have undergone a disconnection procedure that surgically separates their memories between their work and personal lives,” the Season 2 synopsis reads. of Apple.” This daring experiment in ‘work-life balance’ is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of a mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and himself. In Season 2, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of ignoring the separation barrier, leading them further down a miserable path.”

A path of disaster does not sound good! Also, will we learn the secret of the baby goats? So many questions. . . .

In related news, one of Apple’s other sci-fi mysteries is also coming back soon. Read all about Silo Season 2 here.

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