The 10 big questions the ‘Severance’ season 2 finale needs to answer

Watching

• Severance. This Apple TV+ show has us hooked. Here are the questions we have ahead of the season 2 finale.

• The Studio. The Studio is a timely, funny, and exuberantly—though not uncritically—cinephilic panorama of a business caught in the latest battle of a war between art and commerce. It’s also 2025’s best new show to date. Read more here.

• Mickey 17. In Bong Joon Ho’s his new English-language feature, he posits that humanity may soon find a way to extend capitalism's cruel reach to the far corners of outer space. We break down the ending here (spoilers ahead!).

Reading

• The Tell. With her debut memoir, power broker Amy Griffin attempts to understand the intense anxiety that has plagued her throughout adulthood. Read more.

• Stag Dance. Over the course of a decade, bestselling author Torrey Peters wrote this provocative collection of three short stories and a novella to explore what happens when people are forced to hide their gender and sexual identities. Read more.

• The Antidote. Bestselling author Karen Russell’s sophomore novel is a fantastical Dust Bowl epic that acts as an allegory for the current climate crisis. Read more.

Talking About

• Michelle Zauner wants to set the record straight: She is not trying to reclaim the label “sad girl music.” The front woman of indie-pop band Japanese Breakfast speaks to TIME about that label, her new album, and more. Read here.

• The live-action adaptation of Disney’s Snow White, starring Rachel Zegler in the titular role and Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, has been surrounded by controversy ahead of its theatrical release at the end of March. Here’s what to know.

• Beyond the harsh reads and hidden receipts of Love Is Blind Season 8, what stuck out were the ideological divides that caused two women to break it off at the altar. Here’s what the reunion said about the politics of love in a divided America.