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Abigail Lee SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 9 of “Severance,” now streaming on Apple TV+. “Severance” is known for its precise visual aesthetic, and that’s seen nowhere more clearly than within the surveilled halls of Lumon. Part of Lumon’s institutional power arises from its ability to make every employee adhere to the ethos of its founder, Kier Eagan, instilling a strict dedication to a mythology that blurs the lines between corporate culture and religion.

The long wait for Severance Season 2 ended at the end of January, and six episodes of the ten-episode season have arrived on Apple TV+ thus far.

Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 4 of “Severance,” streaming now on Apple TV+. In the latest episode of “Severance,” the innies go outside. Transported into a vast, icy woodland, Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Dylan (Zach Cherry) and Irving (John Turturro) have been sent by Lumon (with their outies’ permission) on an ORTBO — that is, an Outdoor Retreat Team Building Occurrence. With the threatening instruction from Mr.

Severance delivered a seismic twist for viewers to chew over.Created by Dan Erickson, the sci-fi psychological thriller follows Mark Scout (Adam Scott), an employee at fictional corporation Lumon Industries, who agrees to a “severance” procedure where his memories between his work and private life are separated.Alongside Scott, the show’s cast includes Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Michael Chernus, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette.After the first season achieved acclaim in 2022, the second season debuted in January 2025.The fourth episode revolves around a snowy office retreat in Woe’s Hollow, and after making some discoveries related to Lumon founder Kier Eagan, Mark Scout, Dylan George, Helly Riggs and Irving Bailiff, along with manager Seth Milchick, find themselves spending the night in the woods.The group are huddled around a campfire when Irving interrogates Helly over what she saw in the outside world, suspecting she was lying about seeing a ‘night gardener’. In response, Helly cruelly makes a dig about his past lover Burt, which causes Irving to storm off.Irving spends the night in the woods alone and has a fever dream, where he appears to realise Helly is actually a member of the Eagan family, who founded Lumon.The next morning, Helly is confronted by Irving, who notes how Helly would never have made the cruel dig she did around the campfire.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Good News About Hell” and “Half Loop,” the first two episodes of “Severance,” which premiered Friday on Apple TV Plus.The Ben Stiller-directed “Severance” debuted its first two episodes Friday, revealing a fictional world where people, like Adam Scott’s Mark Scout, are able to undergo a procedure that allows them to mentally separate their work and home lives. Why a person would choose to do this and why Lumon, the company that created the process, would require it of some of its employees is just the start of the questions posed by the initial pair of “Severance” episodes.“What we know of them is that they are a med-tech company.