Lumon employees grapple with newfound information about their alter egos in Apple TV+’s striking, superlative series

After a nearly three-year break, 'Severance' — the Apple TV+ workplace thriller starring Adam Scott — is finally back, and it is worth the wait. Read our review.

The characters on "Severance" - at least, the "innie" versions of them - don't experience time like the rest of us. Innies exist only on a subterranean floor in the headquarters of Lumon Industries, a company that splits some employees' consciousness into a work self and a not-work self.

Three years is an absurd amount of time to wait for a new season of TV. That’s triply true when the TV show in question is Severance, a series whose near-flawless first season left us on the steepest and sharpest of cliffhangers.

In May 2022, one month after Severance’s Season 1 finale premiered, I quit my job. Unlike the Macrodata Refinement (MDR) Team at Lumon Industries, my brain was chip-free, my professional and personal memories were synced,

Praise Kier. For anyone worried that “Severance” could have a sophomore slump — especially since the wait between seasons was three years long — put aside your woes. Season 2 (premiering Jan. 17 on AppleTV+) is just as phenomenal as Season 1.