Severance Is Already Plotting Out Its Third Season

One of the astir anticipated 2nd seasons successful caller representation has got to beryllium Severance: not lone has it been excruciatingly agelong since season one premiered (February 2022) and became an instant fan favorite, but that season-finale cliffhanger was epic. With the accustomed hold for much episodes compounded by the 2023 Hollywood strikes, we learned successful July that the Emmy-winning amusement would yet instrumentality to Apple TV+ successful aboriginal 2025. Now, 1 of the show’s writers is teasing a third play is already successful the works.

To beryllium clear, Apple TV+ has yet to officially greenlight Severance play three, but if play 2 is arsenic palmy arsenic its debut season, it’s not hard to ideate the streamer giving the go-ahead eventually. Speaking to IndieWire, Severance writer and play 2 co-executive shaper Mohamad El Masri teased that Dan Erickson (Severance‘s creator) and exec producer-director Ben Stiller person already brainstormed the series’ afloat arc, including its ending.

“There was ever a reasoning up to aboriginal seasons,” El Masri told IndieWire, noting that Erickson, who helium calls “very meticulous and precise detailed,” is precise focused and alert of what’s coming adjacent for the show’s mystery-box plot; play 2 was already being written portion play 1 was being made.

“Even successful play two, we were talking about, what is the extremity crippled and however does this amusement end? A batch of enactment was talking astir that. I deliberation there’s a earthy overlap that happens, particularly with the 2nd play of a show, that you’ve got to support [the momentum] going,” El Masri continued. “People are interested, radical are watching, and present with play two, you truly person to benignant of deliberation about, not conscionable what is play 2 going to present successful a satisfying way, but however does this acceptable up play 3 and beyond?”

In different words, there’s a cautious intent down adjacent the show’s astir offbeat moments—those babe goats included—and the originative minds down it are placing the puzzle pieces with large deliberation. As IndieWire notes, Erickson gave El Masri a “really monolithic bid Bible” erstwhile helium came aboard, drawn from the the 5 years helium devoted to Severance‘s satellite gathering earlier it made it to Apple TV+.

While play 3 mightiness conscionable beryllium a hypothetical astatine the moment, play 2 is locked in: it’ll premiere January 17, 2025 connected Apple TV+. It volition tally 10 episodes (five directed by Stiller). Here’s the authoritative logline, with an highly vague proposition of what volition hap successful play two:

“In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a squad astatine Lumon Industries, whose employees person undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories betwixt their enactment and idiosyncratic lives. This daring experimentation successful ‘work-life balance’ is called into question arsenic Mark finds himself astatine the halfway of an unraveling enigma that volition unit him to face the existent quality of his work… and of himself. In play two, Mark and his friends larn the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, starring them further down a way of woe.”

Season two’s cast, led by Scott, besides includes Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, Jen Tullock, Michael Chernus, Dichen Lachman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette; Sarah Bock joins arsenic a caller bid regular, and different caller faces volition see Gwendoline Christie, Merritt Wever, John Noble, Alia Shawkat, Bob Balaban, Robby Benson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, and more.

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