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Severance season 2 somehow gets even weirder, wilder, and darker

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The new season of the sci-fi thriller Severance premieres on Apple TV Plus .

The series is about tech workers who were forced to live in purgatory thanks to an experimental procedure that split their brains in two .

Season 1 ended with one of the great cliffhangers in modern television, up there with “Not Penny’s Boat”.

(These points make it especially ironic that the series is streaming on a platform run by Apple .) 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. Season 2 of Severance starts streaming on Apple TV Plus on January 17th ..

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