Can’t get enough of Severance, Apple TV+’s new mysterious workplace thriller? Join the club.
If you just can’t quit thinking about Lumon and are impatiently waiting for Season 1, Episode 5 to drop, you’ve come to the right place. Apple TV+ shared an exclusive look at Severance‘s March 11 episode, “The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design,” with Mashable, and it looks like another doozy.
The clip, titled “Irving’s Nightmare,” shows Irving (John Turturro) dozing on the job again. A plop of cryptic black sludge lands on his right hand, and he looks up to see it seeping in from the light fixtures. After sludge starts raining down from the office ceiling, Mark (Adam Scott) peers around the cubicle to check on Irv. For a brief (extremely cursed) moment, Mark’s eye starts leaking black goop. Thankfully, Irving wakes up a few seconds later and the nightmare comes to an end.
We first saw Irv fall asleep on the job in Episode 2, “Half Loop.” Once he slipped into a stressful slumber, a mess of black sludge (that looks a lot like the sludge from Severance‘s opening sequence) started seeping down his cubicle, creeping across his desk, and overtaking his keyboard. He screamed himself awake, was sent for a wellness check with Ms. Casey, and met Burt (Christopher Walken) in the hallway.
What will come from Irving’s latest nightmare? And will we finally find out what’s up with all the goop? Stay tuned.
Season 1, Episode 5 of Severance premieres on Apple TV+ on March 11.
