"Severance": Popular Apple TV+ series gets second season
The science fiction series "Severance" is praised for its ingenuity. However, the strike in Hollywood caused delays. When will it continue?
Scene from "Severence".
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Fans 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 not return to TV+ until January 17. That would be more than 30 months after the end of the first season in spring 2022. In between, the pandemic has come to an end, actors and writers have been on strike in Hollywood for months and the production has had internal problems.
Ensemble returns
"Severance" is about a group of employees at a mysterious company called Lumon who had to undergo a so-called "Severance". This involves separating their work life from their private life so that they have no memory of who they are. All of this is set in a dystopian world, the design of which has received much critical acclaim – including for the retro design in some places. The main actor is Adam Scott as Mark Scout, the executive producer is Ben Stiller.
Season 2 will deal with the consequences of the "Severance" barrier being lifted – which happened at the end of season 1. According to Apple, the ensemble returns with Scott, Britt Lower, Trammell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman and John Turturro, as well as Oscar stars Christopher Walken and Patricia Arquette. Sarah Bock is new as a series regular.
Problems on set?
Like the first season, season 2 of "Severance" will be broadcast on a weekly basis, so it will not be available to binge immediately on January 17. The show will then run every Friday up to and including March 21. "Severance" received an AFI Award and 14 Emmy nominations, winning two.
In spring 2023, there were reports that there were problems shooting season 2. According to a report by the portal Puck News, there was "drama behind the scenes", with the two show runners, Mark Friedman and Dan Erickson now reportedly downright hating each other, which is said to have been the case even before the start of the first episode. Friedman is said to have been on the verge of leaving, but was persuaded to stay by producer Ben Stiller. There were also allegedly problems with the scripts and costs that were apparently too high.
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