According to Deadline, Apple TV+ has just added eight new cast members for the second season of their critically acclaimed workplace thriller series, Severance. The show centers around Mark Scout, played by Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation, Big Little Lies), an employee and team leader at Lumon Inudstries, the world’s leading biotechnology company, who agrees to take part in a “severance program” which surgically separates his personal, non-work related memories from his work memories. However, when Mark quickly finds himself in the epicenter of a suspicious and inexplicable mystery, he sets out on a personal investigation to confront not only the ramifications of this “work-life balance experiment,” but also his own, personal demons.
Currently, talents such as: Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, The Sandman), Alia Shawkat (Search Party, Green Room), Bob Balaban (The French Dispatch, Best in Show), Merrit Wever (Nurse Jackie, Unbelievable), Robby Benson (Beauty & the Beast, Ice Castles), Stefano Carannante (Mirabilia), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (True Detective, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), and John Noble (The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Elementary) are slated to join Scott in the show’s upcoming second season. The series is written and created by Hollywood newcomer Dan Erickson and is directed and executive produced by the widely recognized Ben Stiller (Night at the Museum, Zoolander).
Severance was incredibly successful during its first season, earning over fourteen Emmy-award nominations (more on the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards can be found: here) and successfully scoring at least two accolades for Outstanding Main Title Design and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score). The series comes from Fifth Season studios and is also produced by Scott, as well as series regular Patricia Arquette (Medium, Boyhood), co-director Aoife McArdle (Kissing Candice, All of this Unreal Time), Amanda Overton (Arcane, Edge of Normal), and Gerry Robert Byrne (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gangs of New York), alongside Stiller.
For anyone looking to catch up on Severance, the entire first season is available exclusively on Apple TV+.