Really, what season 2 proves is that Severance wasn’t a great show because it was such a surprise — it was just a great show. And at least in the first half of season 2, its quest to expand its scope hasn’t dulled any of its sharp, strange edges.

And Mark S., as he’s known in the workplace, is surrounded by familiar types of colleagues: an aggressively ambitious weirdo a la Dwight Schrute, a persnickety older stickler, an intriguing new office crush,

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.

The Apple TV+ workplace drama/sci-fi thriller starring Adam Scott returns on January 17 after a nearly three-year break.

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

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.