The wait for Severance season two was extraordinarily long, especially for fans who’d locked into the Apple TV+ series right when it debuted back in 2022. Severance fever is now more widespread than ever, and after season two ended on one of the show’s now-signature cliffhangers, the biggest question following its renewal announcement is SEASON THREE WHEN?
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Severance creator and showrunner Dan Erickson elaborated on encouraging words from executive producer Ben Stiller at March’s PaleyFest LA (per the Hollywood Reporter: “we’re in the [writers] room and working on it”).
“I would love to finish the show before I’m 70,” Erickson (who is 41) joked to EW. “I would hope that season three comes sooner. Certainly a big part of it was the fact that we had the strikes which shut us down for five or six months for production. And there was a difference between that and being shut down for covid in season one, because when we were shut down for covid, I was still writing that whole time, and this time literally it was pencils down. I was making an effort to not even really look at or think about the scripts during that time.”
And as fans who hang on the show’s every tiny detail can certainly attest, Severance is not a show that can be rushed to completion.
“We’re always very careful with it and very meticulous about how exactly we’re telling the story,” Erickson said. “That was the case on season one as well—actually, I think season one took about the same amount of time as season two, but the difference is people weren’t waiting for it at that time. Nobody knew what it was.”
“But having said that, having done it twice now, there is more of a sense of understanding procedurally what works and how to streamline it, so our goal is never to draw out people’s pain for three years. And I hope that we don’t have to do that again.”
You can watch seasons one and two of Severance on Apple TV+ now.
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