Fortunately, “Severance” returns to Apple TV+ on Friday, and its makers seem to have used every second of the absence productively. The season takes new turns while remaining the most ambitious, batty and all-out pleasurable show on TV, an M.C. Escher maze whose plot convolutions never get in the way of its voice, heart and sense of humor.

Created by Dan Erickson and executive produced by Ben Stiller, “Severance” is a ferociously stylized, wonderfully weird piece of TV retrofuturism.

Ben Stiller's Apple sci fi show about a world with literal separation of work and personal lives has always been trippy. But maybe it gets too weird.