Severance Season 2 premieres on Apple TV+ on January 17, 2025. Because of the widespread acclaim for the first season, fans have been eager to know if critics have given the second season a similarly high rating. Given the positive reviews it has received from critics already, it seems that the new chapter will likely live up to all fan expectations, as Season 2 now has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Critics give Severance Season 2 a 100% Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score
Severance Season 2 has a 100% rating on the review aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes after 40 reviews. In contrast, the first season currently has a 97% fresh rating after 116 reviews. This perfect score may change as the premiere approaches and more reviews come out. However, this early critical consensus strongly indicates that the series’ second season will fare as well with critics as the first did, if not better.
Alison Herman of Variety called Season 2 “surreal, stylish, and worth the wait.” Notably, the first season, comprising nine episodes, aired between February 18, 2022, and April 8, 2022. So, there will have been nearly three years between the premieres of the first and the second seasons.
Patrick Ryan of USA Today noted that Season 2 of the sci-fi series benefitted from “rich world-building and droll humor about office perks and morale.”
The Guardian’s Lucy Mangan called Season 2 an “impressively idiosyncratic thing,” noting that it is “wholly itself and confident in its mission to make your mind implode.”
Globe and Mail’s John Doyle called Severance Season 2 “minimalist and epic, an increasingly tense exploration of free-will and corporate sadism.”
Severance Season 2 currently has a score of 85 out of 100 on Metacritic, which utilizes a weighted average to rate projects. This score is based on 20 reviews and denotes “universal acclaim.”
Severance was created by Dan Erickson. The series stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, Zach Cherry as Dylan George, Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick, and Britt Lower as Helly Riggs, among others.
Originally reported by Tamal Kundu on ComingSoon.
