Innies and Outies were just nipple types before the release of Severance on Apple TV+, and now they represent two different kinds of people in this captivating sci-fi world.
The first season had released back in 2022, and now Adam Scott’s Mark is back for the second season—and things still look as trapped as ever. Check out the first teaser:
Here’s the official description for the series:
In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) 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 season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.
Besides Scott, the second season promises to bring back everyone from the first including Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, and Patricia Arquette. Even John Turturro and Christopher Walken are expected to come back.
We don’t know exactly where we are in the story when the season starts, but it does look like it will take place after Mark and his co-workers have managed to switch consciousnesses with their ‘Outies’. We don’t know how long they were able to pull that off or what they were able to accomplish by pulling it off, but it’s possible that Lumon will want Mark to be separated from his co-conspirators and assigned a new team.
I’ll admit, the concept of the series is pretty great, but the show kind of ends with multiple loose threads that don’t feel like a satisfying end. Hopefully Stiller and the rest of the writing crew fix that problem with the second season because fans are already wise to the use of cliffhangers for cheap thrills. I’m just hoping for more MDEs.
Severance Season 2 premieres on Apple TV+ on Jan. 17, 2025.
