Severance' Season 1 introduced an interesting concept based on the work life balance and a world of corporate culture unlike any seen before.

It’s been quite a while since we last saw Mark S. (Adam Scott), an employee at the mysterious company Lumon Industries, which uses a surgical procedure called “severance” to separate people’s home lives from their work lives. Season 1 ended on a cliffhanger in April 2022, leaving viewers eager for the next chapter.

I’ve already published my full Season 2 (spoiler-free) review. Now, we can dive into each individual episode as they stream every Friday. There’s so much to unpack in each one, I really can’t wait! Let’s start with a brief recap of where we left off back at the end of Season 1.

From surprise throuple mentions to Lumon's embrace of stop-motion, here are the 15 most WTF moments from Severance Season 2, episode 1. Let's break them down — and maybe, just maybe, we'll find some answers along the way.

Where Severance's opening episode of season 2 focused on innies, episode 2 casts the lens on outies. Specifically, how the outies of Mark, Helly, Irvin and Dylan are reacting to last season's mutiny.

After an excellently mysterious premiere reintroduced viewers to the world of Severance in its much-anticipated Season 2, “Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig” does the same thing from the opposite angle. While Episode 1 was set entirely within Lumon among the innies,