"Severance" Season 2 premiered Thursday night after a nearly three-year delay from the first season's release. The anticipation is high, and viewers will likely be following each episode closely to unpack the mystery of Lumon and its Severed workers.

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.

Severance creator Dan Erickson tells us about the job that gave him the idea for the workplace sci-fi, what we can expect from Season Two and what the future holds for the