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Season 1 – Severance

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Feb 2022

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Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives; when a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

Critics Consensus

Audacious, mysterious, and bringing fresh insight into the perils of corporate drudgery, Severance is the complete package.

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Andrew Male

The Times (UK)

01/31/2023

...nA show that has gradually evolved from an unsettling mood-piece into a gripping sci-fi mystery that also worked as a parable for our paranoid post-Covid age.

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Naomi Fry

The New Yorker

04/20/2022

Stiller, who directed six of the show’s nine episodes, is emerging as a preëminent television auteur.

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John Doyle

Globe and Mail

04/08/2022

At once minimalist and epic, an increasingly tense exploration of free-will and corporate sadism. It gains a thriller-like momentum as it moves along, and can be disturbing enough to be nightmarish, yet still maintains a modicum of mischievous wit.

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Aaron Murray

Loud and Clear Reviews

Mar 3

5/5

Severance is the type of television that only comes once in a while.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

04/03/2025

4/5

…despite the bright lighting and spartan appearance of the Lumon office, Severance is dark, despairing stuff, a Radiohead song rendered as a sitcom… it reflects the hopeless, fruitless existence that our dependence of faceless technologies has brought us…

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Alan French

Sunshine State Cineplex

01/18/2025

10/10

A series examining the ways work affects our emotional state not only hits harder, but it’s a powerful retort to these ideologies. Whether the audience becomes radicalized by these characters is another question entirely.

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BEN J

@the_man_with_no_name5764 1d

Cold, Scary, and Calm all at once. Severance has its mysterious vibe that make a great TV series. In this season you have the protagonist Mark and the antagonists of the chiling Harmony Cobel and Milchick. You have the supporting charecters of Dylan, Burt, Irving, Casey, and Helly. All of this in a weird workplace. What are they doing? Will we know? This show has us always questioning but not to the extent to shows like "Twin Peaks". Severance is always entertaining and barley drags. SPOILERS AHEAD: It adds dilemas of romance(Burt and Irving, Mark and Helly) as well as mysterious in the outie world like Mark's wife, only to find out at the end of the season that, SHE'S ALIVE? Is she? We do not know for sure, all these are answered in the next season for the most part. We still don't even know, even after season 2, what Lumons secrets are. Now will we ever know? That is the question. Severance is a great thrilling show, and I cannot wait for season 3.

Leon K.

@theleonking 1d

I tire out toward the end of the season but all around fun and thrilling

Julie A.

@snacksizecinema 5d

If they stick the landing, this will go down as one of the best shows on TV.

Yanbo W.

@wuyanbo May 17

Does every show have to have LGBTQ now?

Liviu S

@Qarliv May 6

Nice idea but very slow and boring

R. F. F

@RT36265540 Apr 18

This better have a cult following, I'm just sayin. Found family, survival, and connection in an absurd near-future corporate dystopia.

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Adam Scott

Mark

Britt Lower

Helly

Patricia Arquette

Harmony Cobel

Zach Cherry

Dylan

Tramell Tillman

Milchick

Episode 1

Aired Feb 18, 2022

Good News About Hell

Mark is promoted to lead a team who've had their memories surgically divided between their work and personal lives.

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Episode 2

Aired Feb 18, 2022

Half Loop

The team trains new hire Helly on macrodata refinement; Mark takes a day off to meet with a mysterious former colleague.

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Episode 3

Aired Feb 25, 2022

In Perpetuity

Mark takes the team on a field trip, but Helly continues to rebel; a deteriorating Petey struggles to tell Mark about Lumon's misdeeds.

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Episode 4

Aired Mar 4, 2022

The You You Are

Irving finds an intriguing book at work; Helly aggressively pursues a meeting with her Outie; Mark attends a funeral with Ms. Selvig.

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Episode 5

Aired Mar 11, 2022

The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design

Irving and Dylan confront Burt about his lies; Mark and Helly discover a strange new department.

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Episode 6

Aired Mar 18, 2022

Hide and Seek

The team angers Cobel by forming an alliance.

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Episode 7

Aired Mar 25, 2022

Defiant Jazz

Mark and the team encounter new security measures from Cobel.

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Episode 8

Aired Apr 1, 2022

What's for Dinner?

The team prepares a plan; Mark attends Devon and Ricken's party.

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Episode 9

Aired Apr 8, 2022

The We We Are

The team discovers troubling revelations.

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