Severance

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Season 2
  • Network: Apple TV+
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 18, 2022
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
87

Universal acclaim - based on 46 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 43 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 46
  3. Negative: 0 out of 46

Critic Reviews

  1. IGN
    Reviewed by: Samantha Nelson
    Jan 7, 2025
    60
    Where there are plenty of sweet moments and a continuation of the surreal commentary on faceless megacorporations, meaningless jobs, and out-of-whack work-life balance, showrunner Dan Erickson is overly focused on long shots of Severance’s bleak world or clumsily building up its villains.
  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Jan 7, 2025
    50
    It feels churlish to criticize one for trying to do as much as this season of “Severance” is attempting, but it’s a balance and the scales are out of whack enough that I too often questioned why I should care – a feeling I never had in season one. It’s also a show that’s a bit too in love with its pregnant pauses, calling awareness to its “heavy ideas” instead of weaving them into the fabric of the show.
  3. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Inkoo Kang
    Jan 15, 2025
    40
    The second season seems to pull back from such bleakness, losing itself in abstract ethical conundrums and rote emotional ones. It’s far from a dissection of work and life as we know them; the incisions are only skin deep.