Dropping the most meticulously crafted TV mystery since LOST and disappearing for three years either means you have egomaniacal confidence (and likely production issues), or you have lost the plot. For Severance, AppleTV+’s biggest hit since Ted Lasso, it was production issues. The series needed time to clear the industry strike hurdles (plus time for rewrites and reshoots) since its debut in early 2022.
Over these years of silent mystery about what is happening within Severance‘s Lumon Industries, we wondered where this eerie mind-bender about a dystopian world of downtrodden workers and their abusive, all-powerful overseers might lead. Now that the elevator doors have slid open to Season 2, we still wonder about most of it, but with a refined understanding of this sci-fi show’s meaning.