Severance’s Showrunner Guarantees Followers Will not Should Wait Too Lengthy for Season 3

The wait for Severance season two was terribly lengthy, particularly for followers who’d locked into the Apple TV+ sequence proper when it debuted again in 2022. Severance fever is now extra widespread than ever, and after season two ended on one of many present’s now-signature cliffhangers, the largest query following its renewal announcement is SEASON THREE WHEN?

In a brand new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Severance creator and showrunner Dan Erickson elaborated on encouraging phrases from government producer Ben Stiller at March’s PaleyFest LA (per the Hollywood Reporter: “we’re within the [writers] room and dealing on it”).

“I’d love to complete the present earlier than I’m 70,” Erickson (who’s 41) joked to EW. “I’d hope that season three comes sooner. Definitely a giant a part of it was the truth that we had the strikes which shut us down for 5 or 6 months for manufacturing. And there was a distinction between that and being shut down for covid in season one, as a result of once we had been shut down for covid, I used to be nonetheless writing that entire time, and this time actually it was pencils down. I used to be making an effort to not even actually take a look at or take into consideration the scripts throughout that point.”

And as followers who grasp on the present’s each tiny element can actually attest, Severance shouldn’t be a present that may be rushed to completion.

“We’re all the time very cautious with it and really meticulous about how precisely we’re telling the story,” Erickson stated. “That was the case on season one as properly—really, I feel season one took about the identical period of time as season two, however the distinction is individuals weren’t ready for it at the moment. No person knew what it was.”

“However having stated that, having finished it twice now, there’s extra of a way of understanding procedurally what works and how you can streamline it, so our aim isn’t to attract out individuals’s ache for 3 years. And I hope that we don’t have to try this once more.”

You’ll be able to watch seasons one and two of Severance on Apple TV+ now.

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