Apple TV+'s thriller returns with more sci-fi creepiness, nuanced social commentary and black humor. And perks like fruit leather.

Here’s a quick refresher on where things stand with Mark, Helly, and the gang The second season of Severance, which debuts tonight on Apple TV+, proves that the corporate sci-fi drama has still got it.

Severance was a major dark horse breakout hit for Apple TV+ – that is it was back in 2022 when the series first premiered. Behind-the-scenes circumstances like major Hollywood strikes caused major setbacks to production on Severance Season 2,

Nearly three years after one of the most aggressive cliffhangers in recent memory, the mysterious Apple series is about to flip the switch again and finally answer the fates of the core characters.

Tramell Tillman and Patricia Arquette, stars of Apple TV+ sci-fi mystery co-starring Adam Scott, which returns January 17.

Apple TV’s Severance is back at Lumon Industries after a three-year wait and a thrilling Season One finale. The second season of the workplace sci-fi series, which stars Adam Scott, Britt Lower, and Patricia Arquette, premieres this week on Apple TV+.

Fortunately, “Severance” returns to Apple TV+ on Friday, and its makers seem to have used every second of the absence productively. The season takes new turns while remaining the most ambitious, batty and all-out pleasurable show on TV, an M.C. Escher maze whose plot convolutions never get in the way of its voice, heart and sense of humor.

Helly takes the stage and speaks about the horrors the Innies are enduring to a crowd of stunned watchers, Irving decides to bang on Burt’s door anyway, and Mark discovers his dead wife, Gemma, is actually Ms Casey, rushing and screaming to his sister “She’s alive”... just as the connection is lost.