Ah yes, the plague of bad second seasons has affected Severance. It’s the 5th one on the list of shows whose second seasons I was genuinely excited for, only to be disappointed at the end. The 1st series that was struck by this odd affliction was Silo. That was followed by Bandidos. Then came Paatal Lok. After that was Squid Game. Now we have Severance. I wasn’t hyped for these shows in a fanboy-ish way where I wanted them to be masterpieces, and anything short of that would be considered utter garbage. My interest had been piqued by the 1st seasons of these titles, and I was looking forward to what came next. And all I got was an unhealthy dose of bad storytelling. I didn’t expect Severance Season 2 to suffer from the sophomore slump because Season 1 had such intelligent writing, direction, acting, production design, and more.