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.

Apple TV+ drama Severance is returning to screens this month after a three-year break – and the first reviews suggest it’s been worth the wait. Adam Scott stars alongside Britt Lower in the series, a psychological thriller that sees Scott’s character, Mark, have his personal memories “severed” from his work life.

The lines between selfhood and servitude blur to unsettling extremes in the labyrinthine corridors of Severance.

The three-year wait is over as Severance returns to Apple TV+ for its sophomore season later this month. While many shows would suffer from a long hiatus, Severance Season 2 is not one of those programs,

After three long years off the clock, Dan Erickson's corporate thriller returns with a knotty new season as impressive for how much it untangles as it is for what can't be so simply straightened out.

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.

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

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.