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Ten episodes, twenty-two to thirty-four minutes each, and a lead performance built almost entirely out of a face that will not look at anybody. The running time is the character.
Apple's second season of Severance is built almost entirely out of a single architectural unit. The hallway is the show's argument and the season's discipline.
Peter Craig's Philadelphia crime serial dropped on Apple TV+ in March with Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura as the leads. It is patient, specific, and the best adult crime drama the service has aired.
Apple has signalled a more disciplined content posture at Apple TV+ following multiple reports of an annual operating loss above a billion dollars. The pullback is measured rather than structural.