A second season of Severance is on the way

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The creepy Apple TV Plus workplace drama shows the extremes of work-life balance

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Severance, the creepy Apple TV Plus drama about workers who find work-life balance by surgically altering their brains, has been renewed for a second season, the streamer announced Wednesday.

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The show starring Adam Scott as Mark S., a grieving widower who willingly forgets who he is for the entirety of his workday,

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has found an audience with its portrayal of the horrors of capitalism in a large but claustrophobic office.

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Mark and his coworkers Helly R. (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro), Dylan (Zach Cherry), and Burt (a spectacularly understated Christopher Walken) are trying to figure out

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what exactly they’re really doing in the macrodata refinement department at Lumon Industries while avoiding trips to the dreaded Break Room.

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They’re constantly monitored by the deeply unsettling Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette), the mysterious Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman), and steely-eyed Seth Milchick (Tramell Tillman).

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Mark’s real family includes his pregnant sister Devon (Jen Tullock) and the always reliably funny Michael Chernus as Ricken, Devon’s husband (who authors a self-help book titled The You You Are and holds dinner parties with no actual dinner).

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Created by Dan Erickson and with episodes directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, the show’s first season finale arrives this Friday.

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