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Apple TV+ has revealed its Emmy submissions for Severance with Adam Scott submitted for Best Drama Actor and Britt Lower for Best Drama Actress, Gold Derby has learned.

Ben Stiller, Jessica Lee Gagné, and Uta Briesewitz will be submitted for the Best Drama Directing, while creator Dan Erickson will be in the Best Drama Writing category.

The show’s other main cast members will run in the supporting categories: Michael Chernus, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken in Best Drama Supporting Actor, and Patricia Arquette, Sarah Bock, Dichen Lachman, and Jen Tullock in Best Drama Supporting Actress.

The show also has eight contenders in the Guest Actor/Actress categories:

Robby Benson, John Noble, Michael Siberry Jane Alexander, Sydney Cole Alexander, Sandra Bernhard, Gwendoline Christie, Merritt Wever

Three years ago, in its debut season, the series about office workers who sever their workplace memories from their personal ones earned...

The stars of the hit sci-fi thriller Severance reconvened Saturday night for a hilarious grilling by Conan O’Brien.

The Q&a, at Apple TV+’s FYC space at the Hollywood Athletic Club, started with a few mishaps, including a missing chair for O’Brien and a shortage of microphones, which left Ben Stiller, the show's executive producer and primary director, without an amplification device. “Really? You guys have to share a mic?” O’Brien asked with a trademark incredulity when Severance costar Tramell Tillman passed his microphone to Stiller. “It’s Apple! They make a billion dollars a second, and they had to find me a chair at the last minute, and you two are sharing a mic.” Over loud laughter from the crowd, Stiller joked, “They spent all the money on the rooms upstairs.” O’Brien nodded before quipping, “It’s the tariffs.”

O’Brien explained that, as an old friend of Stiller’s,...

When the absurdly titled Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer was filmed in June 2023, director Tolga Karaçelik, working in English for the first time, had a major stroke of luck: two of its stars, Britt Lower and John Magaro, would become incredibly successful.

Between their roles in Severance and Past Lives, respectively, the two actors went from emerging talent to stars of some of the most talked about movies and TV shows of the last few years. We at FandomWire were able to speak to Karaçelik on the ridiculousness of making a dark comedy, what it was like to work with the cast, and how moviemaking is an inherently selfish medium. Check out the full interview below!

Psycho Therapy Interview [Center] Director/Writer Tolga Karaçelik behind the scenes on the set of Dark Comedy, Thriller Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale Of...

Jimmy Kimmel Live! remains a go-to destination in late-night TV for A-list celebrity interviews and Jimmy Kimmel's take on D.C. So what should fans expect to see on ABC tonight?

Kimmel was kept busy last week, covering the fallout from the Signal text scandal as well as hosting some of the stars from The White Lotus. It's the kind of balance audiences have come to expect, and enjoy, from the show.

Unfortunately, they'll have to go without that entertainment on Monday. There will not be a new episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight.

Instead, ABC will reair the the March 6 episode. Tune in to see Kimmel chat with the original White Lotus star, Jennifer Coolidge. Plus, Sarah Bock and Coco Jones appear.

It looks like that will be the plan for the remainder of the week, too. Kimmel and his team will be off this week, but should return on Monday,...

Fresh off the massive success of SeveranceSeason 2, actress Britt Lower is set to headline a new prison break series for Netflix alongside a star-studded cast.

Per Deadline, Lower will lead the cast of I Will Find You, a new prison break thriller series based on Harlan Coben’s bestselling novel of the same name for Netflix. Lower joins a stellar cast which includes the talents of Sam Worthington, Milo Ventimigilia, Erin Richards and Logan Browning. I Will Find You follows "David Burroughs (Worthington), an innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son who receives evidence that his child may still be alive — and must break out of prison to find out the truth," per the official logline. Coben created the adaptation alongside showrunner Robert Hull, who served as an executive producer for Gotham, which ran for five seasons.

Lower will reportedly portray Rachel Mills in I Will Find You,...

The creators and cast of Severance came together in Hollywood for a Deadline X Apple TV+ Severance FYC Event, delving into several mysterious details in the 10-episode second season.

Creator Dan Erickson, director and executive producer Ben Stiller and cast members Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Patricia Arquette, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Sarah Bock, Gwendoline Christie and Darri Olafsson had a conversation Saturday evening at the DGA Theater in a panel moderated by Abbott Elementary star and creator Quinta Brunson, who also appeared in Season 3 of Party Down with Scott. The team spoke about the finale episode of Season 2, which runs a whopping 77 minutes.

You can watch the conversation here:

Brunson kicked off the conversation with a big question: the purpose of the goats.

Erickson dove in first, saying: “We saw in this episode that there is a ceremonial, sacrificial component to their existence, and,...

If the Season 2 finale of Severance had you seeing red, that's exactly what the producers intended.

The bold new color palette — which was introduced so memorably in the final frame of the episode — was just one of the burning questions discussed in a standing room only Q&a on Saturday with the Apple TV+ series' creative team at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, following a screening of the Season 2 finale. The panel included executive producer and director Ben Stiller; creator, executive producer, and writer Dan Erickson; executive producer and actor Adam Scott; executive producer and actor Patricia Arquette; and actors Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Gwendoline Christie, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, and Sarah Bock.

The event capped off American Cinematheque's Severance week, which also featured screenings of films starring the cast, including Zoolander (Stiller), Step Brothers (Scott), True Romance (Arquette), Barton Fink...

Quinta Brunson gets sandwiched between Ben Stiller and Adam Scott at an all-guild screening of Severance season two held at DGA Theater Complex on Saturday (March 22) in Los Angeles.

The 35-year-old Abbott Elementary star moderated a Q&a at the event, which was attended by several more stars from the hit Apple TV+ series.

Also at the screening and Q&a were Gwendoline Christie, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Patricia Arquette, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Michael Chernus, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Sarah Bock and Tramell Tillman, as well as Kid Cudi.

They day before, the Severance cast stepped out for another event for the series.

The second season just came to an end this weekend, and it has already been renewed for a third season.

Producer and director Ben Stiller addressed the time gap between the first two seasons and if it will be another three years before the next season airs.

Coming just hours after the show’s Season 2 finale shook fans, the “Severance” PaleyFest panel rocked the Dolby Theatre by unleashing a live marching band number — recreating a memorable moment from the episode.

Tramell Tillman, who plays Mr. Milchick, led a marching band through the Dolby Theatre. Prior to the sudden performance, Tillman had been the only one out of the cast and creative team to not show up on stage when his name was called. Just as the panel was getting started — and after Stiller explained that the actor “goes off the grid” at times — Tillman made his entrance with the band.

The Season 2 finale, which was released the day prior to the panel, involves Mr. Milchick acting as a drum major during an elaborate marching band sequence.

The panel was preceded by a screening of the season finale and included creator Dan Erickson and executive producer and director Ben Stiller,...

This article contains spoilers for "Severance" season 2 episode 10, "Cold Harbor" 

From innies and outies to characters who are entirely unsevered (as far as we know), you can count on nearly every "Severance" character to face untold existential hurdles that few mere mortals are equipped to comprehend, let alone handle. Unless a character is armed with the ironclad self-obsession of Ricken Hale (Michael Chernus) or the megalomaniac devotion of Jame Eagan (Michael Siberry), the world Lumon Industries created seems custom designed to grind a person down. 

The company, on the other hand, is built to endure. Over two seasons of "Severance," nothing the protagonists have managed to do has really swayed Lumon in any significant way beyond tiny inconveniences, minor PR crises, and the occasional personnel change ... until now.  

The "Severance" season 2 finale, titled "Cold Harbor," bucks the trend of Lumon invulnerability in a massive and potentially irreparable way. The episode...

The stars of Severance are hitting the red carpet!

Adam Scott and Patricia Arquette joined executive producer and director Ben Stiller at the 2025 PaleyFest LA to promote their hit Apple TV+ series on Friday night (March 21) held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.

Fellow stars in attendance included Gwendoline Christie, Sarah Bock, Dichen Lachman, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Dan Erickson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jen Tullock, and Michael Chernus.

Hours earlier, the game-changing season 2 finale of Severance was released. In a new interview, series creator Dan Erickson revealed that he originally had a very different ending in mind.

If you missed it, Apple TV+ has already renewed the show for a third season!

Click through the gallery inside for 25+ pictures of the Severance stars on the red carpet…...

[This story contains major spoilers from the season two finale of Severance, “Cold Harbor.”]

On the same day that the final episode of Severance‘s second season arrived on Apple TV+, the show’s cast and creative team united at PaleyFest LA for a conversation about that ending.

Stars Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Jen Tullock, Sarah Bock, Tramell Tillman, Michael Chernus, Gwendoline Christie and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson were all on hand at the Friday night event at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, alongside director/EP Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson.

The group sat down for a chat moderated by Ben Schwartz, who worked with Scott on Parks and Recreation, as Stiller noted the event was the first time truly celebrating the show publicly because the first season debuted during the pandemic and the season two premiere was cancelled due to the L.A. wildfires.

To add to the night, Tillman — who plays floor manager Seth...

It's not just you. Even the Severance brain trust admits the explosive Season 2 finale was just as "heartbreaking" to film as it was to watch.

Core members of the Apple TV+ series' creative team and cast reunited on Friday at the jammed-to-capacity Dolby Theater in Hollywood to rewatch the episode "Cold Harbor" and then break down the game-changing season for the opening night of Paley Fest 2025, an annual festival showcasing the best in television ahead of Emmy voting.

"Watching with this audience has been one of my most special experiences with this show," Ben Stiller told the crowd of roughly 3,300 fans. Stiller, who executive produces the series and has directed most of the episodes, including the season finale, was joined by creator Dan Erickson and cast members Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Tramell Tillman, Michael Chernus, Sarah Bock, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and Gwendoline Christie.

This article contains spoilers for "Severance" season 2 in general, and Mr. Milchick in particular. 

Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman) is the kind of guy the protagonists of Mike Judge's 1999 black comedy "Office Space" would have nightmares about. He's a born middle manager with an exaggeratedly friendly and calm demeanor that nevertheless veers toward stern sharpness whenever someone starts pushing the boundaries of the Lumon policies he enforces. Sharply dressed, well-built, and nigh-unfailingly polite, Mr. Milchick seems like a James Bond villain's elite henchman who adheres to a white collar gimmick until it's time to put 007 in a headlock -- only, he never, ever drops the facade. After two seasons of "Severance," Milchick has only offered brief glimpses of a true human being underneath his businesslike exterior -- and even then, it tends to take extensive humiliation or physical pain for him to do so. 

Milchick is simultaneously effective, buffoonish, fearsome,...

The number crunchers of Lumon will be back. (And no, they did not relocate to New York City.)

Fresh off the season two finale, Severance has been renewed for a third installment at Apple TV+. The dystopian series stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, a widower who undergoes a procedure to be “severed” that renders him unable to access his memories at work and vice versa. He works at the mysterious Lumon Industries with Irving (John Turturro), Dylan (Zach Cherry) and Helly (Britt Lower), and season two picks up after the team led what is referred to as the “Microdat Uprising.”

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Created by Dan Erickson and produced by Ben Stiller, the Apple original series also stars Tramell Tillman, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken and Dichen Lachman; joining the cast in season two are Sarah Bock, Alia Shawkat, Gwendoline Christie, Stefano Carannante, Bob Balaban and Merritt Wever.

Praise Kier! This article contains major spoilers for the season 2 finale of "Severance."

No matter what you might have had on your "Severance" Bingo card for the final episode of a phenomenal second season, we're going to go out on a limb and say nobody predicted that. The cross-cutting conversation between Mark Scout's (Adam Scott) innie and outie, his innie's highly-anticipated completion of the Cold Harbor file, and their combined attempt to free Gemma (Dichen Lachman) before his innie ultimately chose to stay behind with Helly R. (Britt Lower) are undoubtedly among the biggest reveals and most significant developments in this series to date, of course. But don't let all the ceaseless demands for our entertainment to do nothing but "advance the plot" distract from one of the funniest and most bizarre additions to Lumon Industries yet: the musical department known as Choreography and Merriment.

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Severance has to be one of the most discussed series of the decade. After a bombastic Season 2 finale, the sci-fi psychological mystery thriller and dark comedy-drama series have officially been renewed for Season 3 by Apple TV+.

Created by Dan Erickson, the Apple TV+ series is set in a world where a biotechnology corporation called Lumon Industries has invented a way to separate memories between work life and personal life. It follows a group of severed Lumon employees who begin suspecting Lumon of doing something shady.

Severance began as an experimental little sci-fi show; it has now become the fledgling Apple-owned streaming service’s most-watched show, at least according to Apple TV+.

Severance stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, Britt Lower as Helly R, Zach Cherry as Dylan G, Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick, Dichen Lachman as Ms Casey,...

Severance renewed for season 3 (Photo Credit: Apple TV+)

Apple TV+ is rewarding Severance fans with another season of the critically acclaimed sci-fi workplace drama. The streamer renewed the award-winning series for a third season, and Severance creator Dan Erickson claims it won’t take another three years to arrive.

“We’re hoping that there are no massive strikes or pandemics or fissures opening up in the crest of the Earth that end up delaying us. Barring that, I’d certainly hope that we’d get this one out a bit sooner,” said Erickson in an interview with Variety. “But, Severance has always been a show that takes a long time to make, and we’re proud of what we came up with, even though it took quite a long time.”

The series premiered on February 18, 2022, with season two debuting on January 17, 2025. The game-changing season two finale aired on March 20, 2025.

Season...

Hey, have you heard about this little show on TV called "Severance"? It's on this little-known streamer called Apple TV+, it just wrapped up its thrilling and mystery-laden second season, and, oh yeah, it's all anyone can talk about these days. Who knew that a dark office satire all about taking work/life balance to the furthest possible extreme would resonate with audiences as much as it has? Well, that's precisely what's helped turn this series from a quirky oddity into a runaway pop-culture sensation.

"Severance" comes from creator Dan Erickson and executive producer/director Ben Stiller, both of whom crafted a labyrinthine world that's just a few degrees off from our own. Every bit of that tireless world-building effort led to a sophomore season that all but blew viewers away, putting our main characters through the wringer and leading to a finale that left us waiting on the edge of our seats for more.

Fans of the mind-bending show ‘Severance’ have a reason to celebrate today. Apple TV+ has confirmed that the series will return for a third season. The news just dropped on which left us all on the edge of our seats.

The show, led by Adam Scott as Mark Scout, dives into the creepy world of Lumon Industries. Employees there undergo a procedure that splits their memories between work and personal life. It’s a wild concept that keeps you thinking long after the credits roll. Since its debut in 2022, ‘Severance’ has built a strong following, with its first season earning 14 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series.

Season 2, which wrapped up recently, took us deeper into the mystery. Mark and his team—played by talented actors like Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, and John Turturro—kept digging into Lumon’s secrets, facing some dark consequences along the way. The cast also includes...

In the wake of its second season finale, “Severance” has been renewed for a third season by Apple TV+.

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed the news in a social media exchange with director and executive producer Ben Stiller, writing, “Season 3 of ‘Severance’ available on request.”

In the hit show, Mark Scout leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself.

In the second season, Mark and his friends learned the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.

Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman,...

On the heels of the second season of Severance breaking records as the most-watched series on Apple TV+, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning hit thriller has been renewed for a third season.

The series hails from executive producer and director Ben Stiller and stars Emmy Award nominee Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, Emmy Award winner John Turturro, Academy Award winner Christopher Walken, and Emmy and Academy Award winner Patricia Arquette.

“Making ‘Severance’ has been one of the most creatively exciting experiences I’ve ever been a part of,” said executive producer and director Ben Stiller. “While I have no memory of this, I’m told making season three will be equally enjoyable, though any recollection of these future events will be forever and irrevocably wiped from my memory as well.”

“I couldn’t be more excited to get back to work with Ben,...

With the season finale of Severance out on Apple TV+ today, word comes that season 3 will be coming to the office – and far quicker than it took for season 2 to clock in. While no official release date has been set, we can be assured that we won’t be waiting three years for season 3.

In a statement coinciding with the news, Severance EP and frequent director Ben Stiller said, “Making ‘Severance’ has been one of the most creatively exciting experiences I’ve ever been a part of. While I have no memory of this, I’m told making season three will be equally enjoyable, though any recollection of these future events will be forever and irrevocably wiped from my memory as well.”

Meanwhile, Severance director Dan Erickson showed his excitement for the third outing, stating, “The idea of getting to make more ‘Severance’ with the greatest cast and crew on...

Waffle parties for everyone: Severance will return for a third season at Apple TV+.

The streamer announced the renewal just a few hours after the second-season finale of Severance debuted late Thursday. The series is Apple TV+’s most watched drama to date.

“The idea of getting to make more Severance with the greatest cast and crew on Earth is more thrilling to me than all the world’s finger traps combined,” series creator, writer and executive producer Dan Erickson said in a statement. “I can’t wait to continue spreading woe, frolic, dread and malice with these truly incredible people.”

Added executive producer and director Ben Stiller, referring to the show’s central conceit of people with divided work and non-work personae, “Making Severance has been one of the most creatively exciting experiences I’ve ever been a part of. While I have no memory of this, I’m...

Praise Kier, Severance will be returning for a third season.

Apple has renewed the series, which comes from creator, writer and exec producer Dan Erickson and director and exec producer Ben Stiller, as its season two finale, ‘Cold Harbor’, launches on the service today (March 21).

Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed the news in the past few minutes through a social media exchange with Stiller, writing, “Season 3 of Severance available on request.”

Season 3 of Severance is available upon request.

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— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) March 21, 2025

The news comes after Severance surpassed Ted Lasso to become the streamer’s most-watched series ever and appeared in the Nielsen streaming report for five consecutive weeks with a new weekly high of 681M minutes viewed.

Apple has not revealed when it plans to premiere season three but Stiller promised that it won’t be...

Severance Season 2 is wrapping up on Apple TV+, and Ben Stiller is addressing when viewers can expect the third installment.

Three years passed between the first and second seasons of Dan Erickson’s sci-fi psychological thriller. Producer Stiller recently revealed that fans will not have to wait that long for Season 3.

“No, no, the plan is not—definitely not,” Stiller said on the New Heights podcast after Travis Kelce asked if he was going to have to wait three years for the third season. “No, the plan is not, and hopefully, we’ll be announcing what the plan is very soon. That will not be that.”

Severance stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, an employee at Lumon Industries who agrees to participate in a “severance” program in which his workplace memories are separated from his primary, external memories.

Related: Ben Stiller Says Barack Obama Turned Down Lumon Building Voice Role...

Buckle up, Severance fans! If you’ve been stuck in a metaphorical Lumon breakroom waiting for updates, your patience is about to pay off. After Season 2 almost gave us a heart attack waiting for it to drop (thanks to the SAG and WGA strikes), director Ben Stiller recently offered a nugget of joy surrounding Season 3.

Ben Stiller on Jimmy Kimmel Live | image: ABC

Appearing on Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast, Ben Stiller mentioned that Season 3 of Severance won’t take another eternity to arrive. That’s right—no three-year limbo this time. Stiller gave us hope for a speedier return to the eerie halls of Lumon Industries. So, prepare for more mind-bending twists, because Mark and the gang will be back soon!

Ben Stiller dropped positive updates on Severance Season 3 Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum | image: 20th Century Studios

Well, it seems that according to director/executive producer Ben Stiller,...

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The Twilight Zone is one of the most brilliant and trippy series ever made. Created by Rod Serling, the CBS series is a virtual and psychologically thrilling trip into the unknown. The Twilight Zone premiered over six decades ago, and it still holds up very well as far as the stories and the visual experience go. Maybe that’s why the Jordan Peele reboot failed: it couldn’t capture the same magic as the Serling series did. So, if you loved the trippy stories, inventive settings, and compelling characters in The Twilight Zone, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Severance is a sci-fi mystery psychological thriller dark comedy-drama series created by Dan Erickson. The Apple TV+ series is set in a world where a biotechnology...

Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Severance season 2, episode 9, "The After Hours."

Severance star Sarah Bock breaks down why her character, Miss Huang, shows Dylan (Zach Cherry) empathy. For most of this season, Miss Huang has had a mostly harsh attitude toward the innies and made an effort to avoid humanizing them, including not wanting them to throw a funeral for Irving (John Turturro). However, in Severance season 2, episode 9, Miss Huang apologizes to Dylan after the heartbreak he endures with his wife, and Miss Huang even apologizes for not facilitating the visitations better. This scene takes place after Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) tells Miss Huang that she is being transferred.

During an interview with Decider, Bock was asked why Miss Huang seemed to soften her attitude towards the innies during her final hours on the Severed Floor. Bock reveals that Miss Huang's atittude changes because she now views the innies as human,...

It is always a breath of fresh air to see a star take their life outside the industry seriously. Taking care of your outie is as important after all. Sarah Bock knew that very well, having already decided about which college she’d be going to.

Bock, who made it big with her role as Miss Huang in Severance Season 2, was faced with a tough decision last year – it is never easy to choose your college after all. And a Severance star helped her tide over the conundrum.

Sarah Bock of Severance fame is pursuing her studies at Northwestern University Sarah Bock, who has been a sensation in Severance, has started college || Apple TV+

Sarah Bock has a lot on her plate. With Severance Season 3 already on the horizon, things are bound to get a little hectic for the Bruisers star, who’ll hopefully be back. And she’ll have...

It's not a good idea to secretly meet your spouse's "innie," and it's also not a good idea to keep reading if you haven't watched "Severance" season 2 episode 9, "The After Hours." Spoilers ahead!

Season 2 of "Severance" presents a very interesting moral quandary. If you're married to someone who splits their consciousness into their "innie" and "outie" every day at Lumon Industries, is it cheating if you start a relationship with your spouse's innie without telling their outie? According to the outie version of Dylan George, played by Zach Cherry, the answer is yes, that's definitely cheating — and he would know, because this exact thing happens to him in the season's penultimate episode "The After Hours."

Gretchen George (Merritt Wever) has been visiting Dylan's innie, who just goes by Dylan G., at Lumon throughout season 2 — because, as a twisted reward probably meant to keep him happy and working efficiently, Dylan has...

This article contains spoilers for "Severance" season 2 episode 9, "The After Hours."

Life isn't easy for anyone associated with Lumon Industries, and this applies triple if they happen to be working on the company's infamous and controversial Severed Floor. The poor innies and their truckloads of existential crises are just one part of the whole story, too -- even if you're an unsevered worker with a cozy managerial position, things are liable to get tricky. 

Interestingly, a pattern seems to emerge among the Kier faithful who have been tasked with supervising the Severed Floor during the show's two seasons. The seething, hostile Ms. Cobel (Patricia Arquette) and the calm, collected Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) couldn't be more different from each other. With the introduction of the latter's Deputy Manager replacement Miss Huang (Sarah Bock), however, "Severance" season 2 shows a certain, deeply worrying trend in Lumon's recruitment policies. In fact, episode 9, "The After Hours,...

Use smaller, monosyllabic words rather than needlessly complex words for simple ideas — and also, stop reading now if you haven't watched "Severance" Season 2 Episode 9, "The After Hours."

In "The After Hours," Seth Milchick, the manager of the severed floor played by Trammell Tillman, finally cracks. While outside of Lumon Industries' severed floor, Mr. Milchick meets with his ostensible superior, Mr. Drummond (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), and Mr. Drummond is, to put it lightly, not happy that the company's best refiner Mark (Adam Scott) is missing in action. Mark's big assignment, known only as Cold Harbor, is due today, and when Mr. Drummond tells Mr. Milchick that he's in big trouble for not corralling Mark as needed, Mr. Milchick falls back on an old habit that's already presented a problem with Mr. Drummond before: he "uses big words."

Mr. Milchick thanks Mr. Drummond for his "remonstration," and Mr. Drummond attempts to humiliate...

Severance's Miss Huang star, Sarah Bock, shares insight into her mystery character and her connection with Lumon. Premiered this past January, the second season of Apple TV's flagship series continues following Mark Scout (Adam Scott) and the other severed members of the Macrodata Refinement division at Lumon Industries after activating the overtime contingency during the season 1 finale. At the start of Severance season 2, Mr. Milchick introduces Mark to his new deputy manager of the severed floor, Miss Huang, who is mysteriously a child.

During a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Sarah Bock shared some insight into her mystery character, Miss Huang, and her connection with Lumon in Severance season 2. However, she admits that even she doesn't know Miss Huang's full backstory. This was partially by design, as her not knowing helped heighten the mystery surrounding the character. Read her full comments below:

I don’t really know the entire...

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Severance season 2, episode 9!Severance star Sarah Bock has explained why Milchick is really ending Miss Huang's fellowship early in season 2, episode 9, and what it means for her moving forward. During Severance season 2, episode 9, Milchick (Tramell Tillman) told Huang (Bock) that she'd successfully finished her Wintertide Fellowship as the severed floor's deputy manager. She is given a bust of Jame Eagan's head and told she'll be going to the Gunnel Eagan Empathy Center for her next role. She's forced to smash her Kier ring-catching game before boading a bus later in the episode.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Bock explained the multifaceted reasons Milchick may have had for ending her fellowship early in Severance season 2, episode 9. The actor explained how the severed floor manager is starting to see her as a threat to his position, or, alternatively, is trying to protect her from the company's oppression. She...

This article contains spoilers for "Severance" season 2 episode 9, "The After Hours."

As "Severance" actor Tramell Tillman told /Film in his 2022 interview, his character, Mr. Milchick, isn't the kind of guy who yells and screams at people. "On the outside, he seems like a duck on water — very still, calm — but on the inside, underneath the water, there's so much going on," Tillman said. "With that, it helps to create that suspense, that mystery, and just keeps everybody on their toes on the severed floor, which I believe is 100% manipulation. It's all tactic."

Despite his serene exterior, the trippy "Severance" season 2 has been hard on Milchick. After Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) was fired and the Macrodata Refinement Team's innies managed to briefly take over their outie selves in season 1, he's been scrambling to hold down the fort. His severed underlings challenge him and give him grief at every turn. His superiors give him borderline impossible tasks,...

[Editor’s note: The following review contains spoilers for “Severance” Season 2, Episode 9, “The After Hours.” For coverage of earlier episodes, read our previous reviews.]

As the little blue bus pulls up to Lumon’s office building, Ms. Huang (Sarah Bock) looks more childlike than ever. A drooping bookbag hangs from her back. Puffy earmuffs frame her plump cheeks. Whatever administrative authority she wielded on the severed floor is gone, and in its place is the apprehension of a young girl moving to a new place. Whether Ms. Huang knows where she’s going is less important than the sudden displacement itself (though Svalbard’s proximity to the North Pole may clarify Mr. Milchick’s irritations with his would-be successor). Tonight, rather than sleep in her room, next door to her parents, she will be napping on a plane before spending night after night at the Gunnel Eagan Empathy Center. She may have her same bed, as Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) suggests,...

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The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian tragedy thriller drama series created by Bruce Miller. Based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, the Hulu series is set in a dystopian future after the Second Civil War, which caused the collapse of the fertility rate and gave rise to a totalitarian society. In this world, fertile women are subjugated to bear children against their will. The Handmaid’s Tale stars Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Ann Dowd, O-t Fagbenle, Max Minghella, Samira Wiley, Amanda Brugel, Bradley Whitford, and Sydney Sweeney. So, if you loved the inventive story, thrilling drama, and compelling characters in The Handmaid’s Tale, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The latest episode of Severance season two, titled "Sweet Vitriol," has been met with mixed reactions from fans. Some have criticized its slower pace compared to previous episodes and wondered why we needed an entire episode following Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette). Especially after the incredible episode before it, "Chikhai Bardo," which gave us a detailed backstory on Mark and Gemma's relationship, what's happening to Gemma now, and ended with Mark waking up from "journeying" after flooding his severance chip. So much is happening in the world of Severance right now between Mark's integration, Gemma's testing, and Helena spying on the innies. Many fans are confused as to why the showrunners decided to air a Harmony-centered episode now.

It's true that "Sweet Vitriol" lacked the same fast-paced, dialogue-heavy, visually arresting tone and environment we are used to. It's also shorter than the other episodes at only 37 minutes. However, this episode...

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Do not drive over to the factory to meet an old chum if you haven't seen "Sweet Vitriol," the eighth episode of season 2 of "Severance." This is your final spoiler warning!

This article also contains discussions of addiction and child abuse.

After living without Patricia Arquette's steely Harmony Cobel for a few episodes of "Severance," we finally catch up with the former head of Lumon's severed floor while she's driving around in her Volkswagen White Rabbit to parts unknown. At the beginning of her standalone episode "Sweet Vitriol," we see Harmony arrive in the run-down town of Salt's Neck, and when she meets up with an old friend, who we eventually learn is named Hampton (played by James Le Gros). Hampton runs a small dining spot called The Drippy Pot, and while he serves coffee to an elderly patron, he also slips him a bottle; shortly before that, we...

This article contains spoilers for "Severance" season 2 episode 8, "Sweet Vitriol."

"Severance" season 2 episode 8, "Sweet Vitriol," continues the previous episode's theme of focusing on a single character's story. This time, the eyes are on Patricia Arquette's Harmony Cobel, who takes a trip to the town she left behind to acquire some important papers that reveal that she, not Jame Eagan (Michael Siberry), was the inventor of the severance procedures. It's a nice little revelation but ultimately doesn't add a lot to Cobel, whose narrative continues to be adrift after Lumon cut her loose.

This is a problem especially since the underwhelming episode follows the excellent "Lost-"influenced "Severance" season 2 episode 7, "Chikhai Bardo." That episode focuses on Gemma (Dichen Lachman) and elevates her from a damsel in distress figure to a very real, very complex person whose particular predicament is integral to the entire show's central secrets. What's more, the episode...

The second season of Apple TV+’s Severance is coming to an end, but fear not, questions will be asked.

Quinta Brunson is moderating a Q&a about the second season of the drama series. The event, which includes an all-guild screening of the Adam Scott-fronted show, will take place at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles on March 22.

Brunson is not directly involved in Severance but is close with Scott, having guest-starred on the revival of Starz’s Party Down that aired in 2023.

Panelists for the event include Ben Stiller, who directs and exec produces the show; creator Dan Erickson; and stars Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, Patricia Arquette, Sarah Bock, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and Gwendoline Christie.

Deadline is a partner for this event, so check back afterwards for full coverage.

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In the season 2 premiere of Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller's hit Apple TV+ series "Severance", several of the "innies" are invited to watch an instructional video about their bizarre workplace. After Mr. Milchick (Trammell Tillman) and his strangely young assistant of sorts Miss Huang gather Mark S. (Adam Scott), Helly R. (Britt Lower), Dylan G. (Zach Cherry), and Irving B. (John Turturro) in a room to watch an instructional video about the functionings of Lumon, the building itself ends up playing a lead role in the video ... and it's voiced by none other than Keanu Reeves.

Was Reeves the first choice? Stiller has admitted that he was not, and that his first choice couldn't really make it work ... because his first choice happened to be the former President of the United States. "I didn't ask him in person, I knew someone who knew his lawyer and his lawyer said...

This article contains spoilers for Severance Season 2, streaming on Apple TV+

As the hit Apple TV+ series Severanceheads toward the seventh episode of its highly-anticipated second season, many questions still remain, like who exactly is Miss Huang? And where is Harmony Cobel? Actor Tramell Tillman, who plays Mr. Milchick in the series, sat down with Collider to talk about the season so far and about working with Sarah Bock, the young actress who plays the mysterious Miss Huang.

“Sarah is so lovely to work with. She’s so bright and has an incredible future ahead of her. "She’s just brilliant,” Tillman said. However, compared to his relationship in Season 1 with Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette), the one he has with Miss Huang, who serves under Mr. Milchick as he once did to Ms. Cobel, is quite different.

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Exclusive: After nearly 12 years as Manager/Producer at the NYC-based Washington Square Films, Jennifer Konawal Brady has joined the recently launched Amplified in the same role.

During her time at Washington Square Films, Brady produced titles including Ari Issler and Ben Snyder’s 11:55; Burn Country starring Rachel Brosnahan and Dominic Rains; Sweets, starring Pedro Pascal, Kevin Corrigan and Sarita Choudhury, for client Catherine Kellner; Colewell starring Karen Allen; the Sundance sci-fi comedy Save Yourselves!, starring Sunita Mani and John Reynolds, alongside Keshet and Heck of a Hill; Janicza Bravo’s Zola, alongside Killer Films and A24; and her client Maya Cozier’s directorial debut She Paradise for Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Most recently, Brady was an EP on Canadian-Italian director Luis DeFillippis’ Something You Said Last Night, a film that has won multiple awards globally as well as being a charter project for a Trans Mentorship Program which provides Btl opportunities for the queer community.

Trying to find the goodness in Tgif? “Severance” has you covered… kind of. The hit Apple TV+ series has partnered with iconic atmospheric Edm artist Odesza to craft a custom song set for the 9 to 5 office job. The livestream premiering the collaboration began at 9 a.m. Pt / 12 p.m. Et today. As the description teases, the playlist is “designed for eight hours of focus — perfect for your innie’s workday.” Listen below.

“Severance” features an original score by Theodore Shapiro. The Odesza set was promoted by executive producer and director Ben Stiller, who tweeted, “Thank you Odesza. This is taking me to another place…”

In its second season, “Severance” has blurred the lines between the Innies and Outies, proving there is no such thing as a “work-life balance.” Mark Scout (Adam Scott) has uncovered even more mysteries at Lumon Industries, while his relationship with coworker Helly (Britt Lower) has more than evolved…...

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As fans catch up with the characters of Severance season 1, season 2 has surpassed Ted Lasso as Apple TV+’s most-watched series.

Apple TV+ is already famous for its many sci-fi series, but season 2 of Severance has attracted a huge audience, making the show surpass Ted Lasso as the streaming channel’s most-watched show. Meanwhile, Apple TV+ has been widely promoting the second season of the series, including Apple CEO Tim Cook filming an elaborate promo for the return of the series after three years. Meanwhile, a month after the show’s January 17 season 2 launch, the company, known for closely guarding its viewership details, has raised the curtain a little on the show’s performance.

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Deadline quotes the streamer saying Severance has broken Apple TV+ records, launching as the platform’s No. 1 series in history, based on the number of unique viewers from January 17 through February 17, 2025.

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Mark’s hallucination at the end of “Trojan’s Horse” was one of the more upsetting sequences of Severance to date. Not only did Mark S. have to watch his wife in the Lumon halls, but he could not even get her to respond. The result was instantly paralyzing, and his reintegration appears to be underway. “Attila” looks to dive deeper into this aspect of the series, opening the door for stranger and more upsetting actions from Lumon in the weeks ahead.

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Mark (Adam Scott) sits with Reghabi (Karen Aldridge), relaying the information he got from his brief vision into Lumon. She believes this means the process is working, but Mark is deeply disturbed by Gemma’s total lack of recognition. He talks about bargaining as a step in the grief process, and he realizes that he might be able to make those changes.

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