Severance season two teaser trailer exhibits the world’s worst return-to-office coverage in motion

After a prolonged break due partially to final yr’s Hollywood strikes, the hit Apple TV+ sci-fi/thriller sequence Severance is returning for its second season on January 17. The streaming service has launched a teaser trailer that does not give a lot away, however has simply sufficient in the best way of intrigue and confusion to maintain followers on their toes.

(Mild spoilers for season one are forward.)

Severance, it’s possible you’ll recall, focuses on a gaggle of people that to thoroughly separate their work and non-work reminiscences. 4 staff at Lumon Industries (with their workplace selves referred to as “innies”) ultimately perform an escape plan of types. They discover a option to blur the traces between the 2 units of reminiscences, with three of them studying some world-shattering revelations about their “outie” lives within the first season finale.

Apple says that, within the second season, “Mark and his buddies be taught the dire penalties of trifling with the severance barrier, main them additional down a path of woe.” The teaser exhibits a panicked Mark S. (Adam Scott) again at Lumon Industries, working by means of the constructing’s oppressive corridors. In related vogue to , sound bites from the primary season are included alongside some eyebrow-raising visuals, together with a troubling watermelon model of Irving’s (John Turturro) head.

Mark halts in his tracks when he reaches an workplace space and encounters three new co-workers as a substitute of his common cohorts. A second later, supervisor Milchick (Tramell Tillman) arrives to welcome the previously displaced employee again whereas carrying a bunch of balloons with Mark’s face on them. You would possibly consider it because the planet’s most terrifying return-to-work coverage being enacted.

The teaser works effectively as a primary correct have a look at the brand new season. Whereas the primary season’s wonderful finale gave the innies and the viewers some much-needed and actually stunning solutions, the clip raises some main new questions. It’s seemingly that we’ll must endure loads of pressure within the 10-episode second season earlier than getting extra readability as to what’s occurring at this bizarro office.