The second episode of season two was the inverse of the first, with an exclusively un-severed look at Lumon's employees.

As the second season of Severance rages on with its sophomore episode, more details and doubts are revealed about Lumon, MDR, and Mark.

Severance Season 2 is now streaming on Apple TV+, with a new episode every Friday. Belen Edwards is an Entertainment Reporter at Mashable. She covers movies and TV with a focus on fantasy and science fiction, adaptations, animation, and more nerdy goodness.

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We flash through the ending of Season 1 once more, but this time, we return to the moment when the Outies returned. Mark (Adam Scott) wakes up at Rickon’s book reading — and his sister Devon (Jen Tullock) checks in on him.

In Episode 2, we pick up moments after the events of the Season 1 finale. The “Outies” of Mark S. (Adam Scott), Helly R. (Britt Lower), Dylan G. (Zach Cherry) and Irving B. (John Turturro) have all come back to their senses. Lumon, meanwhile, is scrambling to figure out how best to control the damage.

Severance season two, episode two showed us the real world fallout of the Marcodat Uprising. It was nothing like Seth Milchick described. In fact, it wasn’t much of an event at all.

This being Severance, what we don’t see of the outies’ lives is at least as notable as what we do. We never see Dylan’s family, for example; we simply hear his wife’s voice on the phone, which (again,