The first season of the popular Apple TV+ series “Severance” is available from now until January 19 for free on the Roku Channel. The second season of the workplace thriller will arrive on Apple TV+ on January 17.
The entire first season of the show will be made available on the Roku Channel as part of an “exclusive fan experience,” from now until January 19. In addition to the first season, a preview of the second season of the show and a look at behind-the-scenes content will be available as part of the experience, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Roku viewers can also score a free three-month trial of Apple TV+, allowing them to continue with the series when the second season premieres.
The promotion will make Severance directly accessible from the Roku home screen. With 90 million users, Roku is offering Apple the potential to gain a good number of new subscribers from the promo.
“Partnering with Apple ahead of the highly anticipated Severance season 2 and being able to create an exclusive fan experience that is available to millions of U.S. households, including offering Apple TV+ content outside of the Apple ecosystem, on the Roku Channel for the first time ever, is incredibly exciting for us,” according to Roku VP of growth marketing and merchandising, Sweta Patel.
“Part of the magic of the Roku platform is that we can work with our brand partners to create bespoke experiences that our viewers love and achieve our partner’s goals.”
Severance has become one of the most popular series on Apple TV+.
The show’s somewhat unusual premise has scored well with viewers and critics alike:
In “Severance,” Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself. In season two, Mark and his friends learn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe.
Unfortunately for fans, it has been three years since the final episode of season one was first streamed. Filming on the second season wrapped in April.
