Apple releases photographic evidence of Severance‘s second season
The elusive second season of Severance has been the white whale of streaming since the series vanished two years ago
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Call me, Apple. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or only two trillion dollars in overseas accounts, investments, and useless AI features, the company thought it would sail about a little and see the film and television production part of the world. It is a way we have of regulating cash circulation to produce several prestige television shows of varying quality and popularity, especially whenever the allure of new product sectors gets the upper hand that it requires strong moral principles to prevent us from stepping into the street and deliberately knocking customers’ Vision Pros off their heads. There is nothing surprising in this. What’s surprising is that Apple finally released photographic evidence of Severance’s second season.
And what an image it is: Adam Scott doing what we can only assume is a recreation of his pose from just outside the theater doors at the premiere of Madame Web, balloons and all. No, there isn’t much in this image, and only a little bit more in the Coming to Apple TV+ highlight reel the company released at this year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference earlier today. Though anyone hoping to see Scott looking panicked in about two or three different costumes will be as happy as an Ahab, who we can only assume survives to eat Moby Dick before being tried for poaching.
Severance ended on a major cliffhanger in April 2022, with all secrets revealed and significant new story arcs launched. The show, which had quickly become one of Apple TV+’s most popular series and one of the most acclaimed and beloved on television, began production on season two in October of that year but was forced to shut down over the WGA strike, among other, less verifiable reasons. The show resumed production in January.
Severance season two is expected to stream on Apple TV+ sometime in 2024.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY happy to hear it may be out this year. INCREDIBLE first season! Completely crushed the finale- which has made this interminable wait so damn painful.
I don’t even understand what you’re trying to say. They had some strike trouble and creative differences. So it got postponed.and? what, exactly?
Welcome to the second shift at the AV Club. Barsanti was only part of the problem.
It’s a monkey’s paw type of situation. Barsanti’s aimless snark and random hot takes were annoying, yes, but at least he wrote in diagrammable sentences.
imagining someone who gets a monkey’s paw and makes one of their wishes about the av club.
I’ve been steadily mocking Schimkowitz since he started after the move from Chicago. Dude’s worse than Barsanti.
Editors: They’re not just for spelling and punctuation……they’re also for asking you “What the fucking shit is this fucking incomprehensible horseshit? Were you having a fucking stroke and on ayahuasca when you wrote this?”
Also, I’m convinced Mary Kate Carr is just Barsanti in drag.
This whole mess was incomprehensible nonsense. Oh and there are clips from the season right in the YouTube preview.
It took me a full 5 minutes to figure out the whole article is written as a reference to Moby Dick, the most relevant and timely of literary options.
Can someone please decipher that first paragraph for me?
Look, I could, but I’m gonna need an young priest, an old priest, three live chickens, a bag of salt, and seven red beeswax candles.
It’s crazy but I actually watched this show two apartments ago.
Right, but you’re a burglar so that means nothing.
Not to brag, but I watched it two countries ago.
Appreciate it may be unpopular but I can’t help but feel the I’d have enjoyed the first series alot less if it hadnt nailed that incredible finale.The journey was interesting, and well made but it was oh-so-slow and often meandering in ways we wouldn’t forgive on a “lesser” show. I do appreciate that the point of a show is often how it wraps up but it is strange how wide the swing in perception is for “good show, great ending” to “great show, not so good ending”
That’s the thing, though. This show is great because it sets up a bunch of stuff and then actually gives us a real payoff. It’s how you’re actually supposed to tell a fucking story. A “lesser” show would have just continued to pile on mystery after mystery without ever giving any sort of explanation or reveal (see: anything JJ Abrams has ever touched). Finally being able to see where at least a few of those twists and turns were leading us is 10,000 times more compelling than another empty cliffhanger—so yeah, that finale is what makes some of pieces fit together to make it a great show. What would have made it bad is if they laid all those pieces and just never did anything with them (again, like so many other shows).
I know the feels for this show are vociferous from it’s biggest supporters but I stand by my choice of words, because yes, it did set up a bunch of stuff and then actually give us a real pay off and of course that is “telling a fucking story” but it was also often slow, meandering and unengaging in the setting up much of “this stuff”. Something tells me with your hyperbolic immediate use of JJ Abrams (arguably the most obvious version of the worst version of the opposite point) as a counter-point to something I’ve actually stated was of a high quality even at it’s “worst” means I may be on a hiding-to-nothing trying to explain further however to be clear, I thought the show was very good on balance because it nailed the landing but to get to the ending there were patches of uninteresting scenes and an inconsistent tone at times.
To my original point, it makes perfect sense that we’d rather have a mediocre start and blistering finish rather than the opposite because the taste we are left with and take away from an experience is obviously way more important than the initial Boyle-mouth-feel but it surprises me HOW big the divide is between the two and, removing Severance (because that’s only mildly grumbly to me and was still high quality) it really do be like:Terrible film/show, great ending = redeemed and often recommendable Great film/show, terrible ending = cannot abide
The writing on this website is awful.
“Call me, Apple.”The opening sentence of Moby-Dick is “Call me Ishmael”, not “Call me, Ishmael”. The narrator is giving his name, not telling Ishmael to call him.Not that any of the rest of your strained metaphor makes any sense. Why did you go with this Moby-Dick idea?
Hey, I just wrote thisAnd I sound crazyBut it is your showSo call me, Apple
Its crazy how much more fun this is than the article.
I assumed when I first read it that Apple was doing a mini series adaptation of the book and that would be shown in the trailer.
I’m as confused as you are.
Your first paragraph needs about six rewritesEDIT: I finally got that you were trying to reference Moby Dick. First: why? Second: remove that fucking comma from the first goddamn sentence, you idiot. Otherwise it sounds like you want Apple to call you, which ruins the whole bit. Which, third, it’s a stupid fucking bit, even if it had some sort of thematic parallel, which it fucking does not.
Yes, yes, great show, can’t wait for the second season, etc.Where’s my news on Gilligan’s Wycaro!? I must have it!
Britt Lower was tremendous on this as “Helly.” She played Adam Scott’s alien-abducted wife on the one-season weirdo show Ghosted which her character was barely in, which to judge by how effective she is here was an awful decision
She had a main role in Man Seeking Woman and was really good. A so-so show overall, but the episode that focuses on her character is particularly great
This first paragraph is… incomprehensible