Minor fissures in the otherwise monolithic edifice don’t dilute the unrelenting precision with which ‘Severance’ probes the boundaries of identity, autonomy, and the soul-crushing absurdities of moder

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”).

T he first season of “Severance” ended with the kind of cliffhanger that makes you want to zip ahead to new episodes immediately. The severed workers of Lumon Industries rebel