We’ve waited a long time for the second season of Severance, Apple TV+’s sci-fi corporate dystopian hit, where people have their minds divided so that the work self, trapped in the bowels of an office, knows nothing about their outside self and vice versa.
The good news is that Season Two is set to come out early next year, and according to one of the show’s writers, Mohamad El Masri, creator Dan Erickson and executive producer and director Ben Stiller have already started work on Season Three.
“There was always a thinking ahead to future seasons,” El Masri told IndieWire during an interview to promote his short film, Other Other. “Even in Season Two, we were talking about, what is the end game and how does this show end? A lot of work was talking about that.”
El Masri also added that Season Two will “point us in the direction we want to go” for the eventual end of the series, and that “there was work being done on Season Three while they were still shooting Season Two.”
When we’ll see a potential third season—Apple has yet to officially greenlit anything beyond Season Two—remains up in the air.
“What I would say is that Ben and Dan and the entire team, they’re perfectionists and they want it to be great. And if that takes, you know, a year, two years, three years or whatever it’s going to be, they’re just going take the time they need to make it the show that they want, and clearly that’s paid off in a remarkable first season,” El Masri said. “I feel like Ben and Dan and everyone, they’re not going to put something out that they don’t feel is amazing.”
Season One of Severance is currently available to (re)watch on Apple TV+. The second season is set to come out on the streamer on January 17, 2025, with one episode dropping weekly every Friday until the finale on March 21, 2025.
