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.

We have waited three long years for Severance season 2 and according to critics, it was very much worth the wait.

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.

Three years after its home-run debut, which layered mysteries upon mysteries so that even answers begat further tantalizing questions, Severance finally returns for its sophomore run. (Well, it will shortly;

Apple’s mind-bending drama returns with a heaping helping of new mysteries, but this puzzle may frustrate you no matter how much you want to solve it.

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,