Severance season 2 draws strong reviews from critics after three-year wait – with one caveat

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. With season one having proved popular among viewers and critics, season two will follow characters as they face the consequences of their rebellion against the “severance” at the end of the first season. Kristen Baldwin, however, wrote for Entertainment Weekly that Severance’s second season serves to “refine its many themes into a timely, rewarding, and challenging debate about the power of parameters and personhood”. Variety’s Alison Herman wrote that this new season “dramatises the arbitrary rules and compartmentalised nature of modern work better than anything else on air.” Herman said that even though “real-time viewers have had their patience strained”, this season is worth the wait. Tilly Pearce from Radio Times describes the new season of Severance as “intense, thrilling and unnerving”, maintaining that despite the long wait, it remains a “captivating must-watch” for fans and new viewers alike.