A cliffhanger ending is highly probable and it looks very possible that the next season will be more than 12 to 15 months away, putting it in 2027. With Severance expected to air in mid 2027, Pluribus might be even further delayed. Very unlikely that Apple's top two shows air simultaneously. Don't like the extended delays.
But this time with Severance season 2 finale, I feel like it didn’t hurt that much.
[Severance SPOILERS ahead]
[you’re warned]
Yeah, Severance season 2 also ends with a cliffhanger, but it’s not a brutally uncertain and climatic cliffhanger like the season 1 finale. This time, by the end of the season, you feel like many things have clicked: the love between the protagonists, the will to solve the mystery, the resolution at “**** the company”… yeah, we don’t know what Mark’s wife outie will do, and that will be an interesting point of view to explore in season three. We also don’t know what the relationship between Mark’s innie and outie will be, or how will the love triangle evolve… but those are minor expectations when compared to what happens in season 1 finale, which is a complete
coitus interruptus something that shouldn’t be done at a season’s ending in my opinion.
[End of Severance SPOILERS]
However, due to the weird nature of the show, I’m afraid the first season will end in a shocking way, with more questions than answers. Maybe with the “cure”? I don’t think that in the 3 or 4 remaining episodes we’ll be able to witness all of that. Especially if one or two more episodes are fillers where little happens.
There are other mysteries that I think will remain unsolved: the mystery frequency the Paraguay guy finds and marks with a question mark, for example. Or the true purpose of the world-population organism.
I think the remaining episodes will focus mainly on: Carol meeting the Paraguayan guy, the organism resuming the contact with Carol, and maybe some initial clues of the “cure”. And not much more.
