James Le Gros in Severance Season 2Image via Apple TV
Apple TV has become one of the world’s go-to streaming services for the best sci-fi shows, but the platform also offers a host of other originals for fans of all genres. One of Apple TV’s biggest properties that first drew people to the platform back in 2020 was Ted Lasso, which is finally set to return with Season 4 this summer after going on a three-year hiatus. Another Apple TV series that was on the air even before Ted Lasso was See, which was led by Jason Momoa, who returned to the platform last year to star in one of the biggest passion projects of his career, Chief of War. The show was met with praise from both critics and audiences, hailed as the perfect blend of other historical epics like Shōgun and Game of Thrones.
Last year, Apple TV returned to the sci-fi genre to deliver one of its most memorable hits in Pluribus, which hails from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. Pluribus is the second-best sci-fi show Apple TV has ever released, following only behind Severance, which stars Adam Scott and is directed by Ben Stiller. After a three-year wait, Severance returned to Apple TV at the start of 2025 for its second season, and the show was picked up for Season 3 on the day of its Season 2 finale. It’s still unclear at this time when Severance Season 3 is going to be released, though — it’s been well over a year since Season 2 concluded, and production on Season 3 seemingly won’t begin until later this summer. Before Severance’s inevitable return, fans can’t stop watching the show, which has led it back into the Apple TV global top 10 in more than 15 countries around the world.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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What Is ‘Severance’ About?
Severance follows a group of employees who work at a mysterious place called Lumon Industries, but they’ve opted to undergo a procedure that completely severs their work lives and personal lives, making the memories of each completely inaccessible to their counterparts. The show may not be hard sci-fi — there are no futuristic spaceships or vaporizing laser guns — but it’s quite dystopian in its version of how it portrays corporate America. Written and created by Dan Erickson, Severance is like a Black Mirror episode come to life over multiple seasons.
Check out the first two seasons of Severance on Apple TV, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 3.
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