Season one finished nearly three years ago, before the end of pandemic mask mandates, Hollywood strikes and America's reckoning with return-to-office policies. Erickson says all that informed his writing for season two.

This post spoils the first episode of Severance Season 2. Severance creator Dan Erickson knows the context in which Season 2 has been released is important. Season 2 of the Apple TV+ workplace thriller arrived Jan.

One character made a surprising choice in Severance Season 2's premiere episode and creator Dan Erickson has revealed why.

Dan Erickson still has no problem remembering the joy and relief he felt when "Severance" premiered. "I knew that I loved it and saw it as something special, but I wasn't sure it was going to become any kind of a widespread hit,

Fans dealt with a three-year wait between the show's first season, which ended on a cliffhanger, and its second.

The wait was particularly hard because of how the season 1 finale ended — a massive cliffhanger that would completely upend the lives of almost everyone in this sci-fi thriller. Cliffhangers are a tricky business.

Iconic show Severance dropped its second season yesterday but the alleged frictions between Dan Erickson and Mark Friedman haven't died down!

Severance was a 2022 phenomenon, intriguing and baffling in equal measure and ending on a pitch-perfect cliffhanger that suggested its head-spinning tale was just getting started. Three years later, the show finally returned on Jan.