8 TV Shows and Movies to Watch After You FinishSeverance

TheSeveranceseason two finale is this week , making this both a thrilling and devastating moment for its devoted rooter . ultimately , some solvent ( maybe ? ) aboutall those lingering mysteries ! But also , the end of our hebdomadary supply of Lumon - induce drama , romance , freakiness , and kinky drollery , until such time as a yet - to - be - confirm third season arrive ! To help your tempers recalibrate whenSeverancewraps up , here are eight TV shows and movies that might assist fill the oscitancy vacuum it will leave behind .

Dark Matter

You do n’t even have to exit the Apple TV+ app forDark Matter . It ’s based on Blake Crouch ’s volume about a man who unwittingly plunk into the ultimate “ what if ? ” scenario when he ’s kidnapped by a different variant of himself , then forced into an unfamiliar version of his life ’s timeline . LikeSeverance , it explore theme of how wildly diverging personalities can evolve from a individual person — and involves weird technical school that seems like a moderately cool excogitation until the horrible consequences start making themselves know . Joel Edgerton is less lovely of a Hero of Alexandria thanSeverance‘s Adam Scott , but you ’ll still want to root for him to reunify with his dear , recreate by Jennifer Connelly . The first time of year is useable for streaming now ; a second season is on the fashion .

Devs

Do you long for more workplace weirdness after all those Lumon elevator rides?Devs , produce , written , and address by Alex Garland ( who ’s considerably - known for his bountiful - screen deferred payment : Ex Machina , Annihilation , Civil War , the upcoming28 age Later ) takes place at a mysterious technical school company with sci - fi inclination ( much likeSeverance ) and involves a slaying mystery ( also much likeSeverance ) . It also has theSeverance - like quality of shoot a line a sea wolf mould , include Nick Offerman , Sonoya Mizuno , Cailee Spaeny , Alison Pill , and others . you may watch its eight - installment single time of year on Hulu .

Black Mirror

Quite obviously , Black MirrorandSeverancehave some thematic echoes , chief among them that tech can be scarey — particularly if its discoverer or wielder has cult - like aspiration and/or fancies themselves to be a graven image . Just asSeveranceseason two began to enwrap up , Netflix announced the whizz - studdedseventh seasonof Charlie Brooker ’s dystopian standard - bearer will drop April 10 . you’re able to also rain cats and dogs the previous sixBlack Mirrorseasons in case you desire to experience somethingbleaker than our current realityin the meantime .

Westworld

At this point , it ’s less and less potential we ’ll ever get that 5th seasonWestworld‘s creatorshave teased in the past . But really , the four season we did get continue some of sci - fi tv ’s finest 60 minutes , research a world where golem are so lifelike their AI slips into the region of the fully sentient — with the append bonus of inventive setting ( a Wild West playground for fertile people , a futurist city where humans have fallen under robot control ) and an incredible shape , including Evan Rachel Wood , Jeffrey Wright , and Thandiwe Newton . The only thing we can faultWestworldfor is n’t the doing of the show itself ; HBOyanked it from streaminga few year back , so you ’ll have to fork out extra dollars to rent or buy it on cyclosis ( Prime Video has it ) , or purchase the complete serial publication on Blu - ray , DVD , or 4 K UHD .

Fingernails

Jessie Buckley , Jeremy Allen White , Luke Wilson , and Riz Ahmed star inthis quirky sci - fi romance — made for Apple TV+—set in a domain where technology has supposedly crack the rule of true love . Adding to theSeverancefactor , it ’s actually set within the awkward confines of the Love Institute , the party that administers the test . When Buckley ’s character call for a job there , she soon begin to question her own relationship , as well as whether or not the Love Institute is really helping or hurting the great unwashed .

Coherence

A group of friend and frenemies gather for a dinner party the night a comet just materialize to be lapse through the nighttime sky — and reality jumbles as a result , with versions of the guest digress in from different parallel world . It ’s a gripping sci - fi thriller that try you do n’t need a big budget or even more than one stage set , really , to tell an entertainingly original story , and it ’s also perfect viewing for anyone who discover themselves second - guessingSeverance‘s Helena / Helly R. wrench . Coherenceis widely available on streaming , includingPeacockandPrime Video .

The One I Love

doppelganger — the classical physically separate kind , unlikeSeverance‘s one body / multiple minds motley — refine this tale of a couple ( Mark Duplass , Elisabeth Moss ) whose endeavor to doctor their relationship with a romantic getaway involve a very surreal twirl . Ted Danson , who make everything better , plays their healer . rain cats and dogs gratis with advertizement on Prime Video .

Bliss

Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek star inthis Prime Video featurefrom Mike Cahill(Another Earth , I Origins)that puts a romantic spin on a classic sci - fi plot : what if everything you opine is real is just a simulation?Blissalso offer a heedful geographic expedition of what it mean to apprize what you have in life — while also learning to accept the grimier stuff you ’d rather just delete with the repose of a keystroke . Streaming on Prime Video .

Honorable mention:Made for Love

This sci - fi series that black market on what was then HBO Max in 2021 - 2022 starred Cristin Milioti(The Penguin , Black Mirror)as a woman whose seek to bunk her dysfunctional union to an eccentric tech billionaire ( Billy Magnussem ) are elaborate by the fact that she has a chip design to spy on every aspect of her life , include her emotion , implanted in her brain . Made for Lovewasdelightfully originaland would absolutely suit in with aSeverance - adjacent streaming bust , except it ’s no longer available on Max — and is in fact not stream legallyanywhere . It also , frustratingly , never start out a physical media release .

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Joel Edgerton in Dark Matter.