Are you ready to return to Lumon Industries? The second season of Apple TV+'s drama series 'Severance' drops tonight, here's when and how to watch

Apple TV+'s thriller returns with more sci-fi creepiness, nuanced social commentary and black humor. And perks like fruit leather.

It's not often that overwhelming success leads to delays, but that was at least partially the case when it came to "Severance" Season 2. Delays caused by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes certainly contributed to the Apple TV+ award-winning drama's almost three year gap between seasons.

Season 1 ended three years ago on a cliffhanger, with the innies staging a rebellion and discovering disturbing truths about their outies. Season 2 picks up in the aftermath. The innies are still at Lumon.

Fortunately, “Severance” returns to Apple TV+ on Friday, and its makers seem to have used every second of the absence productively. The season takes new turns while remaining the most ambitious, batty and all-out pleasurable show on TV, an M.C. Escher maze whose plot convolutions never get in the way of its voice, heart and sense of humor.

Here's what you should remember from the first season of "Severance" and how certain moments and symbols could foreshadow what happens in Season 2.

Here’s a quick refresher on where things stand with Mark, Helly, and the gang The second season of Severance, which debuts tonight on Apple TV+, proves that the corporate sci-fi drama has still got it.

Adam Scott heads up the cast of ‘Severance’ season 2 as Mark Scout, the Lumon employee who has the severance procedure following the loss of his wife. He’s seen here at the premiere of “Hot Tub Time Machine 2” on February 18, 2015 in Westwood, California. He previously starred in ‘Krampus,’ ‘The Overnight,’ and ‘Parks & Recreation,’ among others.

"What a relief - and, even more, what a pleasure - it was to dive into the 10 episodes of Season Two and discover that Severance has still got it," writes Rolling Stone‘s Alan S