As anyone who raced to finish it last night already damn well knows, Severance‘s second season finale did not, in fact, answer every lurking question we had about Lumon, Cold Harbor, macrodata, the wider and presumably evil plans of the Egan family, or even, entirely, what was going on with the goats. (It did have a lot of genuinely great character work, and some new additions to Adam Scott’s Emmy submission reel, mind you.) So it’s good, if not surprising, to wake up to news this morning that, wouldn’t you know it, Apple TV+ has renewed the workplace comedy/horror/drama series for a third season. (Turns out, all it takes is being the single most talked-about, critically heralded, massively watched show on television. Who knew?)
In announcing the news, Apple solicited comments from Scott, as well as his fellow executive producers, regular series director Ben Stiller and creator/writer Dan Erickson, which we mention mostly because all three of them made little Severance jokes in their statements, and we thought we’d let you rate each of them in turn.
Scott: “I couldn’t be more excited to get back to work with Ben, Dan, the incredible cast & crew, Apple and the whole Severance team. Oh hey also – not a huge deal – but if you see my innie, please don’t mention any of this to him. Thanks.”
Stiller: “Making Severance has been one of the most creatively exciting experiences I’ve ever been a part of. While I have no memory of this, I’m told making season three will be equally enjoyable, though any recollection of these future events will be forever and irrevocably wiped from my memory as well.”
Erickson: “The idea of getting to make more Severance with the greatest cast and crew on Earth is more thrilling to me than all the world’s finger traps combined. I can’t wait to continue spreading woe, frolic, dread and malice with these truly incredible people.”
(Personally, we’ll give the point to Stiller, but to each their own.)
Of course, the press release doesn’t even begin to hint at when this now-official third season might actually make it to the streaming airwaves. The show’s first and second seasons had a notably huge gap between them, exacerbated by the 2023 strikes, with nearly three years passing between the end of the first season and the beginning of the second. Fingers crossed that we won’t have to wait nearly that long for season 3.
