Severance Season 2 Trailer: Lumon Is ‘Tightening the Leash’ on Its Innies but They ‘Fear No One’ While Seeking Answers

It’s time to clock in for an all-new season of Severance.

The acclaimed Apple TV+ series is returning for its second season on Jan. 17 — and now, it’s an official trailer has been unveiled. Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Britt Lower, John Turturro, Zach Cherry, Dichen Lachman, Jen Tullock, Tramell Tillman, Michael Chernus and Christopher Walken are back for the new installment.

The trailer, released on Saturday, Dec. 7 during the show’s panel at CCXP24 in São Paulo, opens with Milchick (Tillman) addressing Mark (Scott) during a one-on-one meeting, saying, “Mr. Scout, I know you’re still weighing whether to return to Lumon.”

“But the Mark I’ve come to know … is happy,” adds Milchick, who is next seen chasing down Mark in the Lumon office. Mark then attempts to make an announcement to the Lumon board, but Milchick catches up in enough time to halt the action, yanking the cord to the speaker.

“What you all did was one of the most painful moments in the history of this company,” Milchick continues in a voiceover. “But the four of you have become known as the face of Severance reform.”

After a newspaper with an article titled “‘INNIES’ BLOW THE WHISTLE” appears, Dylan (Cherry) asks his colleagues Mark, Helly (Lower) and Irving (Turturro): “Okay, so we’re not in trouble?”

“I don’t think so,” Mark said. “Milchick said we’re famous.”

The Innies then meet in a discreet, dimly lit location to discuss what they saw upon Dylan succeeding in awakening Mark, Helly and Irving’s Innies in the real world. It’s then that Mark reveals, “My Outie’s wife died a few years ago. Except, the woman is Ms. Casey.”

“So what are you gonna do?” asks Helly before Mark responds, “I gotta get her out of here.”

As the gang prepares to unwrap the truth, the trailer next shows Mark spying on one of his bosses, Ms. Cobel (Arquette), at her home. Ms. Cobel attempts to drive off but Mark gets in front of her car to stop her.

“Why did you do this? What is this all about?” Mark yells, pressing himself up against Harmony’s car, before asking a question about his “late” wife Gemma, a.k.a. Ms. Casey. “Do you know something about Gemma?”

But Ms. Cobel hauntingly teases, “Mark, there’ll be no honeymoon ending for you.” Still, as Helly notes, the Innies “fear no one” as scenes of the group racing around to unearth the truth are shown.

“If we let this happen to Ms. Casey,” Mark tells a group of Lumon workers, “who’s gonna step up when it happens to us?”

Milchick warns that he’s “tightening the leash” and as the trailer concludes, the supervisor eerily tells Mark “goodbye” before shutting the elevator doors on him.

Severance, created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, premiered on Apple TV+ in February 2022. It follows the dark aftermath of Lumon Industries, a biotechnology corporation, requiring its employees to undergo a “severance” operation, separating their consciousness so that their personal and professional lives don’t intertwine.

But one employee, in particular, Mark Scout, begins to unravel the real mystery behind what is happening to them.

The psychological thriller was renewed for a second season that April.

Since the renewal announcement news, several top-tier stars have been added to the cast: Gwendoline Christie, Alia Shawkat, Bob Balaban, Merritt Wever, Robby Benson, Stefano Carannante, John Noble and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson.

Before its Apple TV+ premiere, Scott opened up about how filming Severance helped him cope with the death of his mom. (The Parks and Recreation alum, whose mom died in 2020 after battling ALS, plays a character who is grieving the death of his wife.)

“When we made the show, I was grieving myself,” he previously told Insider. “I found myself in New York, kind of by myself. Because it was a pandemic, I was either sitting in an apartment by myself, or I was on the set working. And so the grieving, I ended up doing it through the show.”

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Severance returns to Apple TV+ on Jan. 17. In the meantime, season 1 can currently be streamed in full on the service.