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Severance Season-Premiere Recap: It’s Been a Minute


The Macrodata Refinement team finally gets back to work, both to solve the mysteries of Lumon and to keep existing.

A Kier maxim that’s often shown in print or spoken aloud on the show is “We must be cut to heal.” In fact, Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) says it as he brings Mark S. (Adam Scott) up to speed early on in this episode. After an almost three-year hiatus, Severance has finally returned, delivering a winning hourlong episode that focuses solely on the Innies in the wake of their mental jailbreak. It seems as if Gwendolyn and Mark W. came from a more state-of-the-art building — their Perpetuity Wing had animatronic Eagans, a fact that triggered Chuck E. Cheese nightmares from my childhood — but that branch has since closed.

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