Pick of the week
Severance
The startling workplace satire finally returns for a second season. As we left the Lumon crew, they were temporarily straddling work and leisure worlds, with emancipation seeming agonisingly close. But five months on, it’s clear that the hellish, striplit netherworld of their working lives is still very much open for business. Adam Scott’s Mark has been assigned a new team and the uprising has been turned into a piece of corporate folklore with a cutesy, motivational stop-motion animation. But with news filtering through about events in the outside world, this uneasy truce can’t be sustained. Severance remains a magnificent dark comedy that is brilliantly performed and feels unique.
Apple TV+, from Friday 17 January
