Severance season 2's first trailer is so unpleasantly upbeat and trippy, I can't wait to return to the office on Apple TV Plus

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News By Tom Power published 23 October 2024

Apple has debuted the first trailer for the hotly anticipated second season of its hit series Severance – and now I'm even more excited to return to the office in early 2025.

Released today (October 23), the teaser, which is set to The Who's funky 'Eminence Front' track, gives us our first proper look at Severance season 2 in typically twisty-turny fashion. It's only around 80 seconds long, but I suspect there'll be plenty of fans who'll not only attempt to dissect what's on show, but also theorize about what lies in store for Adam Scott's Mark Scout and his Lumon Industries colleagues – new and old – ahead of the popular show's latest chapter.

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Expectedly, Mark is at the heart of season 2's inaugural teaser – he's arguably the protagonist of one of the best Apple TV Plus shows, after all, so it makes sense that he'd be front and center of this video.

What's particularly interesting about Severance season 2's first trailer, though, is that many of the Apple TV Plus project's primary supporting cast members are only briefly teased in this first round of footage. Indeed, the likes of Britt Lower's Helly, Zach Cherry's Dylan, and John Turturro's Irving are only glimpsed in quick flash cuts interspersed between the trailer's main footage, which shows Mark navigating a labyrinthine hall of Lumon Industries corridors to try and find his co-workers.

Unfortunately for Mark, he doesn't run into the colleagues he's searching for. Instead, before the teaser ends, he's greeted by a trio of new employees – "who are you people?", a baffled Mark asks – before Tramell Tillman's Seth, the overseer of Lumon's severed floor division, appears. "Welcome back, Markus," Seth unsettlingly says with a smile as he carries a bunch of blue balloons with Mark's face on them. "Been a minute", he adds, before the footage cuts away to Severance's title card. Color. Me. Intrigued.

The show's latest trailer arrives 24 hours after Apple invited us to attend a big Severance season 2 meeting. At the time, I theorized that it was destined to reveal season 2's first teaser, so I'm glad I've been proven right.

Not to blow my own trumpet, but I also predicted that a full cast list and season 2 plot synopsis would be presented by Apple. I was partly correct on that front as well, with the tech giant's streaming division providing a short story brief and confirming which actors are part of Severance's sophomore outing on one of the world's best streaming services:

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