We first heard about AppleTV+ Several in 2022, when creator Vince Gilligan You better call Saul ended its six seasons. When Apple landed the project with a two-season order in September of that year, all we knew were the basics: Break the bad creator (and, before that, X-Files caption) Gilligan, teaming up with Saul Rhea Seehorn, remarkable, in a “blended, grounded genre drama.” And honestly, that was enough: Gilligan, Seehorn, like, mix And based? We were in it. We were Vince McMahon with laser eyes at the end of that sentence.
But after that, until very recently, this initial presentation was about all the information we had about this series, which was delayed by the 2023 writers’ strike and didn’t go into production until early 2024. Saul And Break the badthe setting was Albuquerque; Unlike those shows, Gilligan promised, the new series (which didn’t even have an official title until July) would feature no crime, no meth, and (except for a strange Easter egg) no other connections to the Walter White cinematic universe, either.
Finally we got a title, Severaland a concept (the most miserable person on Earth, played by Seehorn, tries to save the world from happiness), some jovial, cagey interviews and a few cryptic teasers, including one where a nurse gives old Ariana Grande a donut before putting it back in the box for someone else to eat.
Today, however, we have a little more to reveal: the first full trailer for the series, in which Seehorn drives through an eerily quiet world, has a conversation with a mysterious government spokesperson who assures him We are here for youand finally asks the question that concerns us all, namely: What is this ?
