Takeaways From the ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale

Takeaways From the ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale

The second season of “Severance” just wrapped up with its longest episode yet. We have thoughts. Spoilers abound. Whose Side Are We On? There are endings that give you what you want. There are endings that don’t give you what you want. There are endings that give you what you …

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How ‘Severance’ Uses Old Tricks to Make Its Office Hell

How ‘Severance’ Uses Old Tricks to Make Its Office Hell

Contains spoilers about past episodes but not the Season 2 finale. In “Severance,” the Apple TV+ series about a shadowy company where some employees have their consciousness split into two parts, with the “innie” doing all the work and the “outie” remembering none of it, the office is sparse and …

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‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale: Mark vs. Mark

‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale: Mark vs. Mark

Early in the Season 2 finale of the acclaimed, much-memed Apple TV+ series “Severance,” a man has a spirited debate that ends up encapsulating much of what keeps the show’s fans watching. The person he is talking to? Himself, via an old video camera. Mark (Adam Scott) records messages for …

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Tramell Tillman of ‘Severance’ Gives Himself a Performance Review

Tramell Tillman of ‘Severance’ Gives Himself a Performance Review

This interview contains spoilers from Season 2, Episode 5 of “Severance.” It’s hard to imagine Seth Milchick being late for anything. The manager of the “severed” floor in Apple TV+’s darkly satirical workplace thriller “Severance,” Mr. Milchick, as he is mostly known, is the consummate company man. He is a …

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Britt Lower of ‘Severance’ Takes a Swing

Britt Lower of ‘Severance’ Takes a Swing

“I’m very much a beginner,” the actress Britt Lower said. This was on a mid-December evening at a warehouse space in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Dressed in a T-shirt and houndstooth-patterned leggings, Lower climbed a ladder to a narrow platform where an instructor clipped her into a safety harness. …

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What Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2025

What Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2025

Jim Poniewozik Everybody Back to Work at Lumon Industries The dystopian thriller “Severance” premiered in 2022, telling the story of an alternative reality in which workers can have their brains surgically “severed” into two consciousnesses, one for work hours, one for off-work hours. Nothing has matched it since — including …

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