You have 4 days to binge sensational sci-fi show that cost $200,000,000 before season 2-Sabrina Barr-Entertainment – Metro

A critically-acclaimed sci-fi series that earned an incredible 95% score on Rotten Tomatoes is back in just a few days with season 2.

So if you haven’t watched it already, you might have just enough time to binge the first nine episodes so you can be completely up to date by the time the show returns.

It’s been three years since Severance premiered on Apple TV Plus, featuring an impressive, star-studded cast including Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette and John Torturro.

The story follows Adam’s character Mark Scout who decides to undergo a procedure called ‘severance’, which means that he gives consent ‘to sever his memories between his work life and his personal life’.

Following the procedure, when he is at work on the ‘severed floor’, he’s unable to access memories pertaining to his personal life, and when he’s at home, he can’t retain memories about work.

However, he discovers that there’s something else going on behind the scenes when a colleague of his who was let go from the company, and was his best friend at work, contacts him in his personal life and encourages him to delve deeper.

Dark secrets were uncovered about the severance procedure in the first season (Picture: Apple TV Plus/Jon Pack)

Tramell Tillman plays Seth Milchick, the supervisor on the severed floor (Picture: Apple TV Plus)

Gwendoline Christie has joined the show as Lorne in the new season (Apple TV Plus/John Pack) (Credits: Jon Pack)

Viewers were left in awe by the psychological drama, with one called Felipe commenting on YouTube: ‘Season one is clearly one of the best seasons of a TV show ever produced. A masterpiece. Eager for season two.’

And now, season two – which cost a reported $200million (£164m) to make for its 10 episodes – is just around the corner.

Coming to Apple TV Plus on Friday January 17, the new batch of episodes promise even more intrigue, suspense, spine-chilling moments and surreal twists.

Ahead of its release, a synopsis of the new season was released, which reads: ‘In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.’

In an interview, executive producer Ben Stiller explained that they wanted the second season to follow directly after the first.

Patricia Arquette returns as Harmony Cobel, the manager of the severed floor at Lumon (Picture: Apple TV Plus/Jon Pack)

‘We wanted to pick up the story where it left off. We’re bringing the Innies to the Outie world and then will answer some questions by the end of the season. Hopefully we keep it enough of a mystery and intriguing enough that people want to keep following the story,’ he told Vanity Fair.

So far, the reviews from the critics have already been overwhelmingly glowing.

‘It all culminates in a stunning finale that is somehow on par with the first season’s gasp-worthy ending,’ Screenrant’s review read.

‘Severance is one of the best shows on television right now, and it continues to prove that in its second season, which raises the bar in every single way.’

In season one, Helly Riggs (Betty Lower) joined the company as a new employee (Picture: Apple TV Plus/Jon Pack)

What will fans make of season 2? (Picture: Apple TV Plus/Jon Pack)

SlashFilm also wrote: ‘For those concerned about the long wait, Severance hasn’t lost a single step since its debut in early 2022. Acerbic, witty, and compelling to the extreme, it immediately announces itself as the series to beat in 2025.’

One Severance fan admitted on Reddit that they regretted watching season one when it came out because they’ve had to wait an agonising three years.

‘I really wish I would have waited till season 2 came out before watching season 1. There aren’t enough waffle parties in the world to get me through the wait,’ mind967 wrote.

‘Well hey, there’s always, uh, rewatching season 1 again,’ Lonelyland suggested, while iMakestuffz added: ‘You’ll be fine just watch season one over and over again that’s what we all do.’

Ahead of season two, executive producer Ben has also already teased a third outing, telling Collider: ‘You have a responsibility to the audience that you’re going somewhere with it. That’s always been a part of it for us, really understanding where it’s heading to, and Apple’s been really supportive of that and been sensitive to what the story is and not saying, “Okay, this is something that has to keep going as long as it’s successful.”

‘It should go as long as the story goes, and that’s something we have an idea of, and we’re working towards as we’re starting up our season three work.’

Severance season 2 premieres on Friday January 17 on Apple TV Plus.

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