Severance Season 2 may have taken nearly three years to arrive, but creator Dan Erickson and director/EP Ben Stiller’s pursuit of quality was well worth the wait. The premiere’s opening scene swiftly catapults us back into the high-stakes environment of Lumon’s Severed Floor by showing Mark (Adam Scott) sprinting through the blinding white halls in search of his Outie’s wife,

In case you’ve missed it, Severance follows a man named Mark S (Adam Scott) who lands a job with Lumon Industries, a world-leading biotech company which offers their staff the opportunity to have a procedure called severance, which surgically separates his memories from his outside life, from the life he leads when he’s at work.