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Apple's Severance will get darker with a dire fallout awaiting Adam Scott in season 2, teases creator
"What happens when the bear pokes back?" asks Dan Erickson about the backlash awaiting the workers who rebelled in the first season of Apple TV+'s cult thriller
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It’s been almost three years since fans have had the chance to take the elevator down into the offices of Lumon Industries — but when Apple TV+’s Severance returns in January 2025, we’ll finally have the chance to find out what’s happened to Mark, Helly and the rest of the team who surrendered half of their lives for their job… without knowing just what that means.
“I think things get darker,” creator Dan Erickson teased about the new season in an interview with Vanity Fair. “We very much wanted to put our heroes in a scarier place because season one ends with them poking the bear. They form this little rebellion, and they’re able to achieve a modicum of success with it, but the question with season two was: What happens when the bear pokes back? What’s the fallout of this victory that they had? I think, without giving much away, the fallout is dire.”
Part of that fallout, it seems, is a new work team for Mark (Adam Scott). “In a way, severance is the ultimate NDA because it means that you literally can’t share what’s going on, and the characters themselves don’t know what’s going on on the floor,” Erickson said. “But they will take steps towards figuring that out, and that’s going to involve new locations and new characters.”
New characters, or something more strange? Elsewhere in the interview, Erickson made a comment that feelings like foreshadowing for a future twist. “On a practical level, it’s a very intricate show,” he said. “Each character has two lives—essentially, two personalities—and we are expanding.”
Does that mean characters will have more than two lives as the series progresses? How deep can severance really go, anyway?
Severance returns to AppleTV+ January 17, 2025.
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