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.

Tramell Tillman and Patricia Arquette, stars of Apple TV+ sci-fi mystery co-starring Adam Scott, which returns January 17.

A person in a suit holds a white cowbell, standing in a room. Their expression is serious. Season 2 of Severance premieres January 17 on Apple TV+.

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.

The acclaimed Apple TV+ series is making its long-awaited return. A second season was filmed over three years.

The employees can choose to undergo a “severance” procedure, which means that outside the walls of Lumon, they cannot remember their work day, and when they’re at work, they cannot remember their outside lives.