Deadline:

Oscar winner Christopher Walken is set as a lead alongside Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower and John Turturro in Severance, Apple’s upcoming workplace thriller drama directed by and executive produced by Ben Stiller.

That’s a helluva cast. And Ben Stiller as exec producer, one of the few humans on the planet involved in multiple billion dollar movie franchises. Mix in Christopher Walken, and this’ll be worth watching, no matter the plot.

To attract folks like this, Apple TV+ has to have achieved a certain level of critical mass, of gravitas. And doing this in a single year is remarkable.