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.

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

Dan Erickson still has no problem remembering the joy and relief he felt when "Severance" premiered. "I knew that I loved it and saw it as something special, but I wasn't sure it was going to become any kind of a widespread hit,

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