Severance (2022)
There's more to work than life.
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.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 17 February 2022 |
| Status | Returning Series |
| Genre | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
| Created by | Dan Erickson |
| Starring | Adam Scott, Britt Lower and Tramell Tillman |
| Seasons | 3 seasons, 19 episodes |
| Episode length | about 50 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 16 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 8.4/10 |
Where to watch Severance
Severance is streaming on Apple TV+ ($12.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Apple TV+, or $12.99 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Severance is a workplace mystery with sci-fi bones, tracing the psychological cost of corporate memory modification. Created by Dan Erickson, it spans 3 seasons and 19 episodes, totaling 16 hours of viewing time. Each 50-minute episode dissects the sterile environment where employees are surgically divided from their personal lives. Adam Scott leads the cast in a role that demands patience, as the truth about the job emerges slowly. It suits viewers who prefer slow-burn tension over action, and those who find the concept of forgetting their workday genuinely appealing. The tagline hints at the core irony: there is more to work than life.
What the critics said
Critics didn’t just like Severance; they leaned in. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 95% approval rating for the series, a number that usually signals consensus rather than debate. Metacritic sits at 85 out of 100. When viewers ask why they should care about office workers with split personalities, the critics have already answered. It’s a rare comfort watch that makes you feel watched.
How it did with audiences
Severance skipped the box office entirely, so there are no ticket sales to dissect. Instead, the measure is the TMDB user score, which sits at 8.4. That is a high mark for a show that withholds its own logic until the very end. Viewers treated the mystery not as a puzzle to solve immediately, but as a habit to build. It earned that patience by refusing to explain itself too quickly.
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Sources
- Severance on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q101096725 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Severance (TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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