How to Watch Severance Online in 4K

If you want to watch Severance, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller, this complete guide covers both seasons — what the show is, who created it, what it is about, where to stream it, and how to watch it in full 4K quality with InfinityTV.

What is Severance?

Severance is an American sci-fi thriller drama series created by Dan Erickson and directed and executive-produced by Ben Stiller. The show premiered on Apple TV+ on February 18, 2022, and its second season — ten episodes — debuted with the first episode on January 17, 2025, with new episodes released weekly through March 21, 2025.

The series has won Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award, and has been ranked among the best television dramas of the 2020s by major critics. Season 2 became Apple TV+'s number-one series at launch, and the show sits alongside Pluribus as one of the platform's flagship dramas.

Who created Severance?

Dan Erickson created Severance and serves as its writer and executive producer. Ben Stiller — the actor and director best known for the Zoolander and Meet the Parents films — directs and executive-produces the series. Stiller's involvement as a director of prestigious dramatic television has been one of the notable creative developments of the streaming era; his direction of Severance established him as a major force behind the camera in long-form drama.

Who stars in Severance?

Severance features an ensemble cast that has become one of the most praised in recent television:

• Adam Scott as Mark Scout, a manager at Lumon Industries in the show's first storyline. Scott is known for Parks and Recreation and Big Little Lies, and his work in Severance is widely regarded as the finest of his career.
• Britt Lower as Helly R., a new employee at Lumon
• Tramell Tillman as Milchick, a floor manager at Lumon — a performance of controlled menace that became one of the show's standout elements
• Zach Cherry
• Jen Tullock
• Michael Chernus
• Dichen Lachman
• John Turturro as Irving, one of Mark's severance floor colleagues
• Christopher Walken as Burt, an employee in the optics department
• Patricia Arquette as Ms. Cobel, the department supervisor

Season 2 adds: Sarah Bock, Gwendoline Christie, Alia Shawkat, Merritt Wever, and John Noble, among others.

What is Severance about?

The premise of Severance is one of the most original in recent science fiction television:

Severance imagines a world in which a surgical procedure called the severance chip can split a person's memory and consciousness entirely between their work life and their personal life. Employees at Lumon Industries who undergo severance have no memory of their home life when they are at work, and no memory of their work life when they are at home. Their work self (the "innie") and home self (the "outie") are effectively separate people sharing a body.

Mark Scout is one of these employees. The series follows what happens when the sealed divide between his two selves begins to break — and what the people running Lumon Industries are actually using the severed employees to do.

The show uses this concept to explore themes of identity, workplace control, complicity, memory, and the nature of the self — all within a visual world that is simultaneously retro, corporate, and deeply unsettling.

Why is Severance considered one of the best shows of the 2020s?

Several qualities distinguish Severance:

• The premise is genuinely original. The severance procedure as a conceit opens up questions about consciousness and identity that the show takes seriously.
• The visual design is distinctive. Lumon's offices are designed as a sealed, timeless environment — harsh fluorescent lighting, beige carpeting, mid-century corporate aesthetics — that creates a specific and memorable atmosphere.
• The performances are exceptional. Adam Scott carries enormous emotional weight across his two selves. John Turturro and Christopher Walken bring unexpected warmth to figures who exist entirely within the Lumon floor. Tramell Tillman creates a villain of quiet, sinister precision.
• The writing respects the viewer. The show withholds information strategically and rewards careful attention.

Season 2: what changed?

Season 2 of Severance premiered January 17, 2025, with ten episodes concluding March 21, 2025. The season deepens the mysteries established in season one, introduces significant new characters played by Gwendoline Christie, Merritt Wever, and Alia Shawkat, and moves the central situation into more overtly confrontational territory as the severed employees and the world outside Lumon begin to converge.

How to watch Severance in 4K — step by step

1. Open Apple TV+. Severance is an Apple TV+ Original, available exclusively on Apple TV+ wherever the platform operates.
2. Confirm your subscription. Apple TV+ is a flat-rate subscription that gives access to all originals. Make sure your account is active.
3. Check your internet connection. 4K streaming requires a stable speed of at least 25 Mbps. Test your speed before you start.
4. Select a 4K-capable device. Apple TV 4K offers the best picture quality for Apple TV+ content. 4K Smart TVs with the Apple TV+ app, Roku 4K, and Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K also support it.
5. Enable Dolby Vision. Apple TV+ content is mastered in Dolby Vision. Enable it in your television's picture settings for the sharpest, most atmospherically accurate image.
6. Use InfinityTV. InfinityTV brings your Apple TV+ content together with InfinityTV's own library of 150,000+ Movies & Series and 22,000+ live TV channels from around the world — one app, everything in one place.
7. Start with Season 1, Episode 1. Severance is a tightly plotted serialised drama. Every detail in the first season is load-bearing for the second. Do not start with Season 2.

Why does 4K matter for Severance?

The visual design of Severance is central to its effect. The precise, clinical world of Lumon's office floors — the quality of the lighting, the texture of the carpeting and walls, the visual grammar of a contained and controlled environment — communicates the show's themes through image as much as through dialogue. In 4K with Dolby Vision, the contrast between the sterile Lumon interiors and the natural outdoor world is striking and significant. This is a show that repays high-resolution viewing.

What to watch after Severance

If Severance is your kind of television, these series share its interest in identity, systems of control, and exceptional craft:

• Pluribus (Apple TV+) — the 2025 Apple TV+ sci-fi drama by Vince Gilligan starring Rhea Seehorn. Became Apple TV+'s most-watched series ever.
• The Leftovers (HBO/Max) — a drama about the aftermath of a mysterious event in which two percent of the world's population vanished. Three seasons of exceptional television.
• Dark (Netflix) — the German sci-fi thriller involving time travel and a small community. Three seasons. Demanding and rewarding.
• Dope Thief (Apple TV+) — a 2025 Philadelphia crime drama on Apple TV+ with Brian Tyree Henry.

For the full picture of what is worth watching, see our guide to top series to watch in 2025 and the New Yorker's best TV shows of the year. Severance is listed on IMDb with a score reflecting its broad critical and audience acclaim.

How does Severance handle the workplace as a setting?

The office is one of the most underused settings in serious science fiction. Severance takes the contemporary experience of work — the time spent in environments you did not choose, among people you did not pick, following protocols you did not design — and uses it as the material of genuine dread. The Lumon office floor where the severed employees work is recognisable and alien at the same time. The carpeting, the fluorescent lighting, the cubicle partitions, the bureaucratic jargon of the procedures — all of these are details from the ordinary world of professional employment, and all of them, in the context of what the severance procedure actually means, become deeply unsettling.

Ben Stiller's direction makes consistent choices that amplify this effect: long hallways, precise symmetry, colours that are neutral to the point of absence. The visual language of Lumon is a representation of what a workplace looks like when it has been designed not for the comfort or wellbeing of the people who work there but for the production of something else entirely — something the show gradually makes clear across both seasons.

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Frequently asked questions

Where can I watch Severance? Severance is available exclusively on Apple TV+. You can also access it through InfinityTV, which brings Apple TV+ content alongside 22,000+ live channels and 150,000+ Movies & Series in one app.

How many seasons of Severance are there? There are currently two seasons of Severance. Season 1 premiered February 2022. Season 2 debuted January 17, 2025 and concluded March 21, 2025, with ten episodes.

Who created Severance? Severance was created by Dan Erickson and is directed and executive-produced by Ben Stiller. It premiered on Apple TV+ in February 2022.

What is the severance procedure in the show? The severance procedure is a surgical implant called the severance chip that completely separates a person's work memories from their personal memories. When at work, they remember nothing from home. When at home, they remember nothing from work. Their work self (the "innie") and home self (the "outie") are essentially separate consciousnesses in the same body.

Did Severance win any awards? Yes. Severance has won Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award. Season 2 received critical acclaim and significant awards attention. The show has been consistently ranked among the best dramas of the 2020s.

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