Two years and nine months is a long time to wait for anything -- especially for the follow-up of one of the most anticipated and beloved sci-fi dramas on TV that ended its first season on a high with a blistering finale.

Season 1 ended three years ago on a cliffhanger, with the innies staging a rebellion and discovering disturbing truths about their outies. Season 2 picks up in the aftermath. The innies are still at Lumon.

The first season of “Severance,” back in 2022, put a new spin on the concept of being your own boss. It took us inside the mysterious, blinding-white offices of Lumon Industries, where employees in the “macrodata refinement department” have chips implanted in their brains to partition them between a work self (the “innie”) and an out-of-office self (the “outie”).