She’s alive!” before the screen cut to black in the Severance season 1 finale. After numerous setbacks and delays, Severance season 2 returns to Apple TV+ this month. The Emmy-nominated sci-fi drama enters its sophomore season with several unanswered questions,

Here’s everything to remember from “Severance” Season 1.

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.

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.

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