Back when its first season debuted on Apple TV+ in early 2022, Severance blew my mind in a way that TV shows so rarely do anymore. It's thanks, in part, to the way the show takes a mind-bending exploration of work-life balance to dystopian extremes. Who knew that so many quotidian aspects of a corporate environment -- from a breakroom to board meetings, an employee handbook, and data-entry quotas -- could be combined to produce a gripping sci-fi masterpiece that also has something profound to...