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.

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