‘Severance’ Creator Breaks Down Season 2 Premiere: Helly’s Lie, That Gemma Tease and How Much of Season 3 Is ‘Mapped Out’

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Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 1 of “Severance,” streaming now on Apple TV+.

The Season 1 finale of “Severance” left audiences with a cruel, spectacular cliffhanger. The innies — that is, the versions of Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Dylan (Zach Cherry) and Irving (John Turturro) that exist only at work — found a way to break out of the confines of Lumon.

Using the Overtime Contingency, they woke up in the outside world, in their outies’ bodies, and discovered shocking truths about who they are outside of work.

Irving is investigating the shady company, Helly is the daughter of the CEO, and Mark has just found out his dead wife, Gemma (Dichen Lachman), might not be dead after all — she is his severed Lumon colleague, Ms.