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.

Taking the idea of work-life balance to extremes, the sardonic and surrealist thriller “Severance” on Apple TV+ envisions a dystopian corporate world in which employees of a company called Lumon Industries have a chip implanted in their brains that severs their memory in two.

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.

This story contains spoilers for Season 1 of “Severance,” streaming on Apple TV+. A recap is available upon request. “Severance” returns on Apple TV+ this Friday, but it’s been nearly three years since the first season of the sci-fi workplace thriller ended on a brutal cliffhanger.

And though audiences had many, many questions after the finale, we're so close to getting some answers since Season 2 is picking up right after the events of the end of Season 1. To refresh your memory ahead of the Season 2 premiere,

After a three-year wait, the long-awaited season 2 premiere of "Severance" is finally here! Season 2 of the Apple TV+ original thriller series debuts this week. "Severance," directed by Ben Stiller, follows a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives.