Severance
Good News About Hell
Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired 2022-02-18
Synopsis
Mark is promoted to lead a team who've had their memories surgically divided between their work and personal lives.
Pilot desk note
From the desk: Severance opens its catalog run with “Good News About Hell” (2022-02-18). Prestige sci-fi that made corporate dread fashionable again; watercooler theory TV for the 2020s. Long season gaps, Ben Stiller directing heat, and mystery-box discipline debates.
In the series
This episode is part of Severance (2022–present) on Apple TV+.
Split your work self from your home self — office horror in fluorescent perfection.
Key cast
- Adam Scott as Mark Scout
- Britt Lower as Helly R.
- Zach Cherry as Dylan G.
- John Turturro as Irving Bailiff
- Christopher Walken as Burt Goodman
- Patricia Arquette as Harmony Cobel