Severance Season 2: Everything we know

Praise Kier, because Severance Season 2 may arrive this year. It’s been a rocky road, but we’ve gathered any release and trailer updates, possible cast, plot speculation, and more.

If you could curate the perfect work-life balance by forgetting anything and everything about your job the minute you finish a shift, would you?

This is the moral and emotional dilemma at the core of Severance, Ben Stiller’s thought-provoking series which debuted on Apple TV+ in February 2022. The show combines the best of Black Mirror’s dystopian thriller edge with heart-aching drama.

As for the viewers, they’ve been left itching for the next season after a whopper of a cliffhanger in the finale. Fortunately, it’s officially returning, so here’s everything we know so far.

Contents

• Is there a Severance Season 2 release date?
• Is there a Severance Season 2 trailer?
• Severance Season 2 cast speculation
• Severance Season 2 plot speculation

Is there a Severance Season 2 release date?

Severance Season 2 has finished filming and is expected to premiere in late 2024, but there’s no release date yet.

Finally, some good news: on April 23, 2024, costume designer Carol Deelay shared a production update on Instagram. She said, “It’s a wrap on Season 2.”

An earlier report on April 28, 2023, indicated that the second season could be delayed due to a “falling out” between showrunners Dan Erickson and Mark Friedman. The report also mentioned “extensive script rewrites” and astronomical episode budgets that could further hinder Season 2.

This was disputed by Ben Stiller, “No one’s going to the break room. We’re on the same really slow schedule we’ve always been on. Same target air date we’ve always had. Love our fans and each other and we all are just working to make the show as good as possible,” he tweeted.

Season 2 went into production in January 2024, which is when we got our first look: a behind-the-scenes image of Stiller sprinting down a hall.

Is there a Severance Season 2 trailer?

Unfortunately, there’s no trailer for Season 2 at the time of writing.

If Season 2 does get released in late 2024, we’d expect a trailer a month or so ahead of the premiere.

Severance Season 2 cast speculation: Who could return?

Given the cliffhanger ending of Season 1, we can expect most, if not all of the Severance cast to return for Season 2.

Possible Severance Season 2 cast:

• Adam Scott as Mark Scout
• Zach Cherry as Dylan George
• Britt Lower as Helly R/Helly Eagan
• John Turturro as Irving Bailiff
• Patricia Arquette as Harmony Cobel
• Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick
• Dichen Lachman as Ms. Casey/Gemma
• Christopher Walken as Burt Goodman
• Jen Tullock as Devon Hale, Mark’s sister
• Michael Chernus as Ricken Hale, Devon’s husband
• Michael Siberry as Jame Eagan, the CEO of Lumon Industries
• Gwendoline Christie
• John Noble
• Alia Shawkat
• Robby Benson
• Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
• Stefano Carannante
• Merritt Wever
• Bob Balaban

In October 2023, TVLine reported several new additions to the cast for Season 2. These include Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), John Noble (Fringe), Alia Shawkat (Arrested Development), and Merritt Wever (Unbelievable). Others include Bob Balaban (Capote), Robby Benson (Brave New World), Stefano Carannante (Blue Bloods), and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (The Tourist).

It’s unclear whether we’ll see Yul Vazquez as Peter “Petey” Kilmer, a former Lumon employee and friend of Mark’s “innie”, given his death in Season 1. If anything, we’d see him in flashbacks as Mark deals with the events of Season 1.

What could the Severance Season 2 plot be about?

The venturing into the outside world we saw in Season 1’s cliffhanger finale will surely have consequences in the plot of Severance Season 2.

There are plenty of burning questions Severance Season 2 needs to answer.

Season 1 ended with one of the most dramatic cliffhangers of the past 10 years: Helly R discovered she’s Helena Eagan, the Lumon heir; Irving arrived at Burt’s door after their romantic connection in Lumon, only to discover he’s already in a relationship; and we last saw Dylan being tackled to the ground by Milchick after allowing the “innies” to escape their bodies for a brief time.

And that’s before we get to the biggest twist from the Severance Season 1 finale: Mark learned that Gemma wasn’t just alive, but had been severed and was working at Lumon as a wellness counselor called Ms. Casey. “She’s alive,” he screamed as the finale credits rolled.

Speaking to Variety, Erickson teased, “There’s a question of sort of who was targeted first: Was Mark targeted because of his relationship to Gemma, or was it the other way around? And that’s something that we don’t see this season, but we will see in subsequent seasons.

“That’s the big question, what is special about Mark? And is it actually that there’s something special about him or is it more about Gemma, and he was sort of pulled in? Those are all left unanswered this season, but we will get into it.”

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