Severance Is Already Plotting Out Its Third Season

Some of the anticipated second seasons in latest reminiscence has acquired to be Severance: not solely has it been excruciatingly lengthy since season one premiered (February 2022) and have become an on the spot fan favorite, however that season-finale cliffhanger was epic. With the same old look forward to extra episodes compounded by the 2023 Hollywood strikes, we learned in July that the Emmy-winning present would lastly return to Apple TV+ in early 2025. Now, one of many present’s writers is teasing a third season is already within the works.

To be clear, Apple TV+ has but to formally greenlight Severance season three, but when season two is as profitable as its debut season, it’s not exhausting to think about the streamer giving the go-ahead finally. Chatting with IndieWire, Severance author and season two co-executive producer Mohamad El Masri teased that Dan Erickson (Severance‘s creator) and exec producer-director Ben Stiller have already brainstormed the sequence’ full arc, together with its ending.

“There was at all times a pondering forward to future seasons,” El Masri instructed IndieWire, noting that Erickson, who he calls “very meticulous and really detailed,” could be very targeted and conscious of what’s coming subsequent for the present’s mystery-box plot; season two was already being written whereas season one was being made.

“Even in season two, we have been speaking about, what’s the finish sport and the way does this present finish? Plenty of work was speaking about that. I believe there’s a pure overlap that occurs, particularly with the second season of a present, that you just’ve acquired to maintain [the momentum] going,” El Masri continued. “Persons are , persons are watching, and now with season two, you actually should form of take into consideration, not simply what’s season two going to ship in a satisfying method, however how does this arrange season three and past?”

In different phrases, there’s a cautious function behind even the present’s most offbeat moments—those baby goats included—and the artistic minds behind it are inserting the puzzle items with nice deliberation. As IndieWire notes, Erickson gave El Masri a “actually large sequence Bible” when he got here aboard, drawn from the the 5 years he dedicated to Severance‘s world constructing earlier than it made it to Apple TV+.

Whereas season three may simply be a hypothetical for the time being, season two is locked in: it’ll premiere January 17, 2025 on Apple TV+. It can run 10 episodes (5 directed by Stiller). Right here’s the official logline, with an especially imprecise suggestion of what is going to occur in season two:

“In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a staff at Lumon Industries, whose staff have undergone a severance process, which surgically divides their reminiscences between their work and private lives. This daring experiment in ‘work-life steadiness’ known as into query as Mark finds himself on the heart of an unraveling thriller that can power him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself. In season two, Mark and his associates be taught the dire penalties of trifling with the severance barrier, main them additional down a path of woe.”

Season two’s forged, led by Scott, additionally consists of Britt Decrease, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette; Sarah Bock joins as a brand new sequence common, and different new faces will embody Gwendoline Christie, Merritt Wever, John Noble, Alia Shawkat, Bob Balaban, Robby Benson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and extra.

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