The sci-fi series was hailed as a dark, timely satire of office life—but its return is bogged down by abstract ethical conundrums and rote emotional ones.

It’s been a long three years, but there’s less than one week left until Severance Season 2 premieres on Apple TV+. When we last saw Lumon’s Macrodata Refinement department, they were scattered — and their innies were in the outside world thanks to Dylan (Zach Cherry) triggering the Overtime Contingency in a risky attempt to get to the bottom of their company’s shady activities.

Severance Season 2 premieres Jan. 17 on Apple TV+, with a new episode every week. Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness.

Maybe you remember "Severance" from its distinct visual palette of whites and blues and hallway tracking shots; maybe you remember the aforementioned cliffhanger and its sinister implications; maybe you remember seeing it was directed by Ben Stiller and thinking "That Ben Stiller?

Severance is about a group of workers who toil in the basement of a mysterious company called Lumon Industries. They've been "severed," meaning they don't remember anything about