In that time between the first and second seasons, "Severance" lost none of its mind-bending electricity. .... “Severance” amplifies its intrigue without falling into the second-season trap of making key enigmas inscrutable or boring, a trap too many puzzle-box shows tumble into when challenged to top their triumphant first seasons.

It is mesmerising, gorgeous, heartbreaking and triumphant.

Severance may have taken a while to boot up, but it knows what it’s doing. With perfect synergy, this series is a delight to circle back to and worth being kept in the loop with.

The shorthand review on “Severance” should be “worth the wait”: As the highly anticipated dramatic series returns—after almost three years—it remains as provocative and unsettling a piece of psychological science-fiction as it ever was.

By the end of the second season, a few aspects of the mystery plot come into better focus but it’s one step forward, two steps back. Still, “Severance” remains a rare, unique and completely distinctive series.

Severance is better than perhaps any other show on television at capturing the indignities of modern work, using sci-fi exaggerations to cast our own dystopian reality into stark relief. As the Dan Erickson-created series enters its sophomore season, that sharpness as well as an insistence on the humanity of characters condemned to an environment hostile to it continue to be its twin north stars, guiding it over minor stumbles in momentum and mystery-box puzzling along the way.

The second season seems to pull back from such bleakness, losing itself in abstract ethical conundrums and rote emotional ones. It’s far from a dissection of work and life as we know them; the incisions are only skin deep.

It's one of the best TV seasons I've ever watched. The finale must be up there with the most exciting of all time. Bring on the third one!

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Season One was great. I just finished Season 2 the last episode just got over and i jumped right on Metacritic to write a review.. All and All season Two was a step down from Season one. It was Ok and Meh. I did not like the Cliffhanger and I could honestly care less if a Season 3 is ever made or not This show would of been better as a Mini Series with a clear beginning middle and end not some Stretched out Twilight Zone Episode. I would watch at least the first Episode of Season Three just to see the direction and tone they take but I wont hold my breath and If they cancelled the show I really wouldn't care.

The first 9 episodes are pointless, but the final episode is great. Honestly this show should have been a 3 hour movie not a 20 episode series.

I am quoting an amazing review, after finishing season 2. "Still, when I think about the hours I spent on Lost, which ultimately became a rambling experience with a frustrating conclusion, I cannot help but feel cynical about where Severance is headed. Does Erickson have a master plan? By the end of season two, it felt like he was making everything up as he went along, leaving the writers backed into an impossible corner and viewers poised for disappointment." Yes.