Severance Season 2 is what happens when you stop running. In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team of office workers at Lumon Industries. Timeless offices that offer small signifiers plucked from different time periods and work cultures are filled with employees who have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives.

Now, the lauded Apple TV+ drama from creator Dan Erickson returns with a briskly paced sophomore season that refines its many themes into a timely, rewarding, and challenging debate about the power and parameters of personhood.

Severance season 2 defies expectations in the best possible way. Read our spoiler-free review of the long-awaited new season here.

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.

Reviews are finally out for the long-awaited second season of Severance, Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning cult psychological thriller. Critics say it was worth the almost-three-year wait, calling Season 2 thematically deeper,

There were reasons to worry about a "Severance" sophomore slump. Foremost, the Ben Stiller-backed, 2022 Apple TV+ series was such a brilliantly realized paranoid thriller/sci-fi satire of the work-life balance illusion -- recreating its first season magic would be a herculean task under the best circumstances.

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.

Severance season 2 is almost here, and the first reviews say it is ‘worth the wait.‘ An official companion podcast has just launched too.