$20 million per episode: Season 2 of this hit series exploded counters

Season 2 of Severance, Ben Stiller’s hit series, will be expensive, very expensive for the Apple TV+ platform. According to media reports BloombergThe budget for this sequel will be a hefty $20 million per episode. By comparison, that’s the price of an episode of “Dragon House” in the Game of Thrones prequel. However, Severance is not a period series.

It seems that the streaming platform has full confidence in this project, as evidenced by these numbers. The first season was a real public, but above all critical success, nominated for many prestigious ceremonies.

This pharaonic budget – not far from Stranger Things, whose each episode costs 30 million dollars – is against the new policy of the platform. Still, according to Bloomberg, Apple TV+ would spend nearly $20 billion on the production of its movies and series. However, this production attracts far fewer people than Netflix. In the future, the Apple platform is going to be much more in control of its budget.

Severance Season 2 wrapped filming last April after multiple delays due to the writers and actors strike that hit Hollywood in 2023. Two weeks ago, the platform released the first teaser – see above – from this new season. However, the series is not expected to return until January 17, 2025.

A brief summary Liberation presented as follows: “Mark Scout works at Lumon Industries, where he leads a team whose employees undergo surgery to separate their memories related to their professional lives and their personal lives. This risky experiment in work-life balance comes to a head when Mark finds himself at the center of a mystery that forces him to confront the true nature of his job….”

On AlloCiné, the series receives a very high average of 4 out of 5 for press and 4.4 out of 5 for viewers.

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