Praise Kier!

THE long-awaited second season of dystopian TV series Severance premieres tomorrow on Apple TV+, with weekly episodes releasing until March 21.

Starring Parks and Recreation’s Adam Scott, Severance follows a team of employees at Lumon Industries, a biotechnology company founded by highly respected doctor and philosopher Kier Eagan.

The company is known for valuing work-life balance as all its newly-hired employees must go under a ‘severance’ procedure that surgically separates their work and personal memories, creating two versions of themselves referred to as ‘innie’ (in work) and ‘outie’ (out of work).

The procedure is ethically questioned by members of the public and eventually, raises concerns between its employees, escalating to Mark Scout (Adam) and his co-workers finding themselves on a mission to discover the true nature of their work and the consequences of the severance barrier.

The new season is set to carry on from season one’s (2022) cliff-hanger finale that left fans at the edge of their seat, as the severed four main characters discover missing links between their two worlds.

Show creator Dan Erickson revealed that fans can expect the show to get even darker and more twisted.

“We very much wanted to put our heroes in a scarier place because season one ends with them poking the bear,” Dan said in an interview.

“They form this little rebellion, and they’re able to achieve a modicum of success with it, but the question with season two was: What happens when the bear pokes back? What’s the fallout of this victory that they had? I think, without giving much away, the fallout is dire,” he added.

Season one garnered highly positive critical acclaim earning a Rotten Tomatoes score of 97 per cent.

It also won two out of seven Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards nominations in 2022 for outstanding music composition for a series and outstanding main title design, as well as two Writers Guild of America awards for drama series and new series in 2023.

It has also been announced that a third season is already in the works.

Lumon Industries is currently the first and only fictional company to be allowed a page on the app LinkedIn.