Maybe you remember "Severance" from its distinct visual palette of whites and blues and hallway tracking shots; maybe you remember the aforementioned cliffhanger and its sinister implications; maybe you remember seeing it was directed by Ben Stiller and thinking "That Ben Stiller?

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