But the new intro for the upcoming Hulu revival is a remarkable little slice of storytelling, cramming a whole lot into just 40 seconds. The new season hits starts streaming on August 4th.
Ben Stiller tells Variety that there are “two specific ideas” that the Severance team has “talked about internally as possible spinoff ideas.” He says “they are nascent.”
Stiller also says it would be great to “have a Severance video game.” I’m not exactly sure how that would work?
The Wall Street Journal reports that, while Paramount offered to pay Donald Trump $15 million to make him drop his lawsuit against CBS News over the way a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was edited, the sitting president wants upwards of $25 million and a public apology from the news organization.
The subtext here is obviously “grovel and supplicate if you want that Skydance merger to go through.”
When The Morning Show returns to Apple TV Plus for its fourth season on September 17th, Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) are going to find themselves navigating “a world rife with deepfakes, conspiracy theories and corporate cover-ups.”
The first trailer for Apple TV Plus’ upcoming crime drama Smoke starring Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett as a detective / arson investigator duo forced to team up in order to take down a pair of serial fire starters is — apologies — hot as hell. The show debuts on June 27th.
This “special announcement” teaser for the upcoming second season of Netflix’s One Piece adaptation could just be a reminder that new episodes are on the way, but it (and all the little hoof prints at the end) are probably a sign that we can expect to hear new details about the show at this year’s Tudum event.
As Deadline notes, the cross-platform viewer number that (HBO) Max just released for last night’s finale is down from the season premiere’s 5.3 million, but the company expects that “The audience will grow significantly due to low viewing levels over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.” According to the press release, the show’s global audience now numbers more than 90 million.
If you’ve seen the finale, what do you think about where the show is headed now?
The last few minutes of the season 2 finale are an important indication of where the story is going.
You’re supposed to pick up on some of the visual uncanniness of Mark S.’ sprint through Lumon HQ in the first episode of Severance’s second season, but this behind-the-scenes breakdown video from Industrial Light & Magic highlights just how much of the scene was created with VFX wizardry.
