Severance: TV Episode Recaps & News

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Severance

Taking work-life balance to a new level.

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A disturbing rebuttal to the “work-life balance” adages heard in every office; Severance is the latest psychological thriller from AppleTV+. Set at Lumon Industries, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team of employees who have surgically divided their memories from work and real-life thanks to the severance procedure. When new employee Helly (Britt Lower) rejects her new life as an indentured office drone, the true nature of their work begins to get called into question. Their efforts to find out who they are and what it is they do from nine to five lead to a mystery full of thrilling reveals and plot twists.

Created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife Mcardle, Severance stars Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro, Zach Cherry, Patricia Arquette, and Christopher Walken.

  1. Episode 9 The We We Are
    Severance Season-Finale Recap: A Tale of 3 Innies The innies finally get to explore the real world in Severance’s explosive season finale.
  2. Episode 8 What’s for Dinner?
    Severance Recap: The Hour Is Yours The MDR crew plots to find out who they really are. But first, a weird waffle orgy.
  3. Episode 7 Defiant Jazz
    Severance Recap: Dance, Dance, Revolution Everyone is getting their hands dirty in the most suspenseful episode of Severance yet.
  4. Episode 6 Hide and Seek
    Severance Recap: Love in the Time of Severance Is Dylan right that love can transcend severance?
  5. Episode 5 The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design
    Severance Recap: Inexplicable Goats The refiners explore Lumon’s bizarre depths and only find more questions.
  6. Episode 4 The You You Are
    Severance Recap: Eternal Sunshine of the Severed Mind This week’s episode sets up several potential story lines for (doomed) love in the severed world.
  7. Episode 3 In Perpetuity
    Severance Recap: Museum Madness Please fill out the official request for “TV recap interaction” before reading.
  8. Episode 2 Half Loop
    Severance Recap: Endless Toil Helly tries to make a great escape, and Mark calls in sick.
  9. Episode 1 Good News About Hell
    Severance Series-Premiere Recap: Who Are You? Apple TV+’s newest thriller is a disturbing rebuttal to the “work-life balance” adages heard in every office.
  1. Episode 8 Sweet Vitriol
    Severance Recap: You Can’t Go Home Again The Cobel origin story is wilder than we could have imagined.
  2. Episode 7 Chikhai Bardo
    Severance Recap: Eternal Sunshine of the Severed Mind We finally know what happened to Gemma. Kind of.
  3. Episode 6 Attila
    Severance Recap: Triangles of Sadness Welcome to the most complicated love triangles in all of television.
  4. Episode 5 Trojan’s Horse
    Severance Recap: Unsanctioned Erotic Entanglement We finally get our girl back, but the vibes are still off thanks to Mark’s integration sickness making him kind of a jerk.
  5. Episode 4 Woe’s Hollow
    Severance Recap: Into the Woods Milchick takes the refiners on what can only be described as the worst work trip of all time.
  6. Episode 3 Who Is Alive?
    Severance Recap: Goat Expectations Mark gets new allies in his search for Ms. Casey/Gemma.
  7. Episode 2 Goodbye, Ms. Selvig
    Severance Recap: A Long Weekend Hopefully, Milchick got overtime pay for all the work he did over the weekend cleaning up Lumon’s mess.
  8. Episode 1 Hello, Ms. Cobel
    Severance Season-Premiere Recap: It’s Been a Minute The Macrodata Refinement team finally gets back to work, both to solve the mysteries of Lumon and to keep existing.
break room gossip

Can Cobel Be Trusted? And Other Severance Questions.

 Last season, that would have been a definitive “no.” After this week’s visit to Salt’s Neck, however … By Brian Grubb
close read

Severance Gets Lost in Time

 Like “The Constant” did for Lost, “Chikhai Bardo” finds emotional resonance — and perhaps a clue — in the shifting “whens” of this story. By Jen Chaney
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Severance Doubles Down on the Body Horror

 Trust Lumon to keep finding new and disturbing ways to terrorize its severed employees. By Roxana Hadadi

More on Severance

  1. chat room
    James Le Gros Spent Two Years Figuring Out His Severance Character“It doesn’t ever leave you, because you know you’re going to be called to task at some point … The ghosts in their relationship, maybe that helped.”
    By Roxana Hadadi
  2. break room gossip
    Can Cobel Be Trusted? And Other Severance Questions.Last season, that would have been a definitive “no.” After this week’s visit to Salt’s Neck, however …
    By Brian Grubb
  3. close read
    Severance Gets Lost in TimeLike “The Constant” did for Lost, “Chikhai Bardo” finds emotional resonance — and perhaps a clue — in the shifting “whens” of this story.
    By Jen Chaney
  4. best of 2025
    The Best TV Shows of 2025 (So Far)Great television will not be confined nor defined by genre.
    By Jen Chaney, Roxana Hadadi, and Kathryn VanArendonk
  5. close read
    Severance Doubles Down on the Body HorrorTrust Lumon to keep finding new and disturbing ways to terrorize its severed employees.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  6. break room gossip
    What Is Lumon Up to Now? And Other Severance Questions.Sure, this is a question every week, but the events of “Chikhai Bardo” have made it more complicated than ever.
    By Brian Grubb
  7. chat room
    Gemma’s Big Episode Terrified Severance’s Dichen Lachman“I didn’t want to let the fans down. This is obviously something they’ve been waiting for.”
    By Devon Ivie
  8. on set
    Severance Fans Have Descended on the Bell Labs CampusBut the real-life Lumon headquarters is anything but desolate.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  9. close read
    Let’s Call That Severance “Love Triangle” What It WasDoppelgänger sexual assault is nothing new in fiction. Neither is the reluctance to engage with male victims’ responses to it.
    By Ben Rosenstock
  10. vulture investigates
    How Much Do Severance’s Macrodata Refiners Get Paid?Not in erasers and waffles, but in cold, hard cash.
    By Nic Juarez
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