The hitmaker showrunner has clear direction for resolving the show’s lingering mysteries, especially following the dramatic cliffhanger at the end of the first season. He emphasized that when a significant tease is introduced, it is imperative to have a resolution in mind, failing to do so means digging your own grave.

Fans dealt with a three-year wait between the show's first season, which ended on a cliffhanger, and its second.

This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 1 of "Severance," streaming now on Apple TV+. The Season 1 finale of "Severance" left audiences with a cruel, spectacular cliffhanger. The innies - that is,

Severance season 2 is finally back after three years, and it was well worth the wait. The Apple TV+ workplace drama—which explores an alternate reality where one can physically separate their personal life from their work life—successfully builds upon the first season while recapturing the thrilling twists of its memorable season 1 finale.

Severance season 2 makes its triumphant return to Apple TV+ later this month. Find out how series creator Dan Erickson plans to end the show.

Each episode of “Severance” drops at midnight PT and 3 a.m. ET on Apple TV+. There are 10 total episodes in this season.

Severance was a 2022 phenomenon, intriguing and baffling in equal measure and ending on a pitch-perfect cliffhanger that suggested its head-spinning tale was just getting started. Three years later, the show finally returned on Jan.

Season one finished nearly three years ago, before the end of pandemic mask mandates, Hollywood strikes and America's reckoning with return-to-office policies. Erickson says all that informed his writing for season two.