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Severance is still the most thoughtful, complex show on television

After three long years of hoping, it seemed impossible that the second season of Severance could live up to the scope and ambition of the first. But, mercifully, it has, says Bethan Ackerley

By Bethan Ackerley

22 January 2025

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Dan Erickson
Apple TV+ (Episodes releasing weekly from 17 January)

Good things come to those who wait, or so we say. But there is nothing worse than patience unrewarded by time, especially when weeks have stretched into years of anticipation.

Sitting down to watch season two of Severance (for my money, the best sci-fi show in a decade), I was nervous. I had put off watching it more than once. Long-neglected chores took on a startling importance. Three years after the first season ended on a…

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