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USA Today
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
'Severance' renewed for Season 3: 'All appears to be well at Lumon Industries'
'Severance' renewed for Season 3: 'All appears to be well at Lumon Industries' Show Caption Hide Caption 'Severance' star Adam Scott on why viewers are hooked on the show. 'Severance' star Adam Scott talks to USA TODAY about why audiences are can't get enough of the mind-bending show. Spoiler alert: This story contains details from Season 2 of "Severance." It was a packed finale of "Severance" Season 2 and to say it was dramatic would be an understatement. Though the season didn't end in a cliffhanger like the previous, a conscious choice by executive producer Ben Stiller, it still left viewers with plenty of questions. The good news, however, is that the series has been renewed for another season, which means "all appears to be well at Lumon Industries," Apple TV+ said in the renewal announcement Friday. Apple CEO Tim Cook and Stiller jointly announced the series renewal on social media, with Cook, writing "Season 3 of Severance is available upon request. Tim C." The Emmy Award-winning Apple TV+ show follows Mark Scout (Adam Scott) as he leads a team at Lumon Industries whose employees have undergone a severance procedure that surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. Season 2 of the series, which broke records as the most-watched series on Apple TV+, saw Mark and his friends learn "the dire consequences of trifling with the severance barrier, leading them further down a path of woe," according to the series description on Apple TV+. Stiller, who directed five episodes this season, in a statement, said making "'Severance' has been one of the most creatively exciting experiences" he's 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," Stiller joked. Scott, who plays the titular role of Mark Scout and also serves as executive producer, in a statement, said he "couldn't be more excited to get back to work" with the "Severance" team, adding, 'Oh hey also - not a huge deal - but if you see my innie, please don't mention any of this to him. Thanks.' Here's what to know about Season 3 of "Severance," including potential release date and cast. Watch Severance on Apple TV+ Join our Watch Party! Sign up to receive USA TODAY's movie and TV recommendations right in your inbox Exclusive interview: Adam Scott and Ben Stiller unpack the twisty 'Severance' Season 2 finale Will there be 'Severance' Season 3? Yes. Apple TV+, on Friday, formally announced that "Severance" would be returning for Season 3. The announcement does not come as a surprise, given that the series is the top streaming series on Apple TV+. Stiller appears to have a multiple-season endpoint in mind for the series and speaking to USA TODAY's Gary Levin, the executive producer had said the ending (of Season 2) sets up even more questions and theories for a show already filled with them. 'Where's it going, what is their fate, what's going to happen in the next moment? That's an intriguing way to end it," Stiller said. 'Severance' has been created by Dan Erickson, who also serves as writer and executive producer on the show. Besides Stiller, Season 2 directors include Uta Bresiewitz, Sam Donovan and Jessica Lee Gagné. When would 'Severance' Season 3 release? Apple TV+, in the announcement, did not specify when Season 3 would release. Previously, Season 1 of "Severance" premiered on Apple TV+ on Feb. 18, 2022, while Season 2 dropped after almost three years on Jan. 17. Based on this, it is likely that Season 3 will also release in the first few months of the year, either 2026 or 2027. Stiller, during a recent appearance on "New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce," assured fans that they would not have to wait another three years for the next season to release. While on the episode, when Travis asks Stiller if fans would have to wait another three years for the next season of "Severance," Stiller replies: "No, the plan is not. Definitely not." "We got hit with the strike - there was a writer and actor strike, and it took us a little bit to regroup," Stiller said on the podcast, explaining the long gap. "We shot for 186 days on Season 2. Editing takes a while but thank goodness the audience was there when we came back." Work on the next season is reportedly already underway with a writers' room in Los Angeles, Stiller told The Hollywood Reporter in February interview (before the new season was announced), adding he "hopes not to keep audiences waiting three years this time." Stiller also revealed on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that the "Severance" team already knows how the series will end. "We know what the ending is, but how we're getting there, is the creative process," Stiller said on the show. 'Severance' cast While Apple TV+, in its announcement, did not divulge any cast details, it is likely that much of the main cast would be returning for the new season. Here's a list of actors and their characters in Season 2 of "Severance": Adam Scott as Mark Scout as Mark Scout Patricia Arquette as Harmony Cobel as Harmony Cobel John Tuturro as Irving Bailiff as Irving Bailiff Britt Lower as Helly Riggs as Helly Riggs Zach Cherry as Dylan George as Dylan George Dichen Lachman as Gemma Scout as Gemma Scout Jen Tullock as Devon Scout-Hale as Devon Scout-Hale Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick as Seth Milchick Michael Chernus as Ricken Hale as Ricken Hale Christopher Walken as Burt Goodman One actor not expected to return is Sarah Bock as Miss Huang, who fans said goodbye to in the penultimate episode of the season. Who is Miss Huang? Meet the college freshman behind the eerily young 'Severance' character How did 'Severance' Season 2 end? In the final scene of "Severance" Season 2, Mark and Gemma race through those hallways toward an exit, but in a crushing turn of events, innie Mark pushes Gemma out the door, hesitates and then decides to stay behind. As Gemma pleads with him from outside the door, he turns around and spots Helly at the other end of the hall; he turns, embraces Helly and they run once more down those endless white hallways, holding hands. The season ends in a freeze frame as 'The Windmills of Your Mind' plays on the soundtrack. 'We knew that was going to be the ending for a while,' Stiller says. 'We sort of played with the idea of ending on Mark looking between the two, but it felt clear, after having this cliffhanger ending in Season 1, I didn't want to do that to the audience. It always felt this was the natural way that Mark's innie would go. And what we wanted to do in the second season was set up in (the Gemma-focused) Episode 7 enough of a reason that you would feel some heartbreak and you would feel torn, and part of the audience would be going, 'Yeah, I'm with him; go with her,' and part would go 'I can't believe he's doing that.' Scott approves of the decision not to torture viewers with more uncertainty. 'It would be cruel and unusual to end it on something like that. I'm so glad that we ended where we did, because I love the sequence of Mark and Helly running through the hall and the music; it's really fun.' 'Severance' burning questions: Gemma, Helly, Mark and that maze of hallways How to watch Season 2 of 'Severance' With the finale now streaming, the entire Season 2 of "Severance" is available to watch on Apple TV+ with a paid subscription. Watch Severance on Apple TV+ 'Ted Lasso' fans can believe it: The show is back for a Season 4, with Ted coaching women We occasionally recommend interesting products and services. If you make a purchase by clicking one of the links, we may earn an affiliate fee. USA TODAY Network newsrooms operate independently, and this doesn't influence our coverage. Contributing: Gary Levin, Greta Cross, Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY Saman Shafiq is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at sshafiq@ and follow her on X and Instagram @saman_shafiq7.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tramell Tillman Jokes Stephen Colbert Was a 'Pain in the Ass' During His Visit to 'Severance 'Set
Stephen Colbert had an unforgettable visit on the set of Severance. Three years after the talk show host, 60, visited the Apple TV+ show for a segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he reminisced about the hilarious onset visit with cast member Tramell Tillman, 39. Tillman, who plays Seth Milchick on the show, appeared on a recent episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, when the TV host said visiting the Severance cast on location "was an amazing treat." The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! "I mean, that's like me going to Middle Earth. That was incredibly exciting," said Colbert excitedly, causing Tillman to ask, "When are you coming back?" "Anytime you want man. I didn't know I was playing coy about it," Colbert immediately responded, causing the audience to laugh. The television personality then asked if he disrupted Tillman's day when he visited the set. "Did you have time for that or was it a pain the ass?" Colbert asked. Related: Severance Season 2: All About the Sci-Fi Thriller Starring Adam Scott and Patricia Arquette "You were a pain in the ass," Tillman responded before Colbert cut to a clip from the "musical dance experience" bit that aired on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in August 2022. Afterwards, Tillman said, "I think my favorite part is when you were backing your ass up on me. That has to be my favorite part." "Back it up like a Tonka truck. That's what I do," Colbert hilariously said. After the first season of Severance dropped in 2022, fans waited till January 2025 for season 2 to be released, due to the 2023 writers and actors strikes. Related: Severance Season 2 Review: Apple TV+ Thriller Goes Deeper, Darker and Wilder — and What's with All Those Baby Goats? In season 2, Tullman's character goes from being a supervisor on Lumon Industries' severed floor, who also serves as Harmony Cobel's (Patricia Arquette) right-hand man, to her floor manager. Tullman told PEOPLE that "rewatched season 1" to prepare for the new episodes. "I think rewatching the work, rereading the scripts, continuing to have conversations with [series creator] Dan [Erickson], with [director] Ben [Stiller] about where Milchick goes in the new season was really helpful. Any ideas that I had to really craft more meaning for him was also really impactful," he told PEOPLE in January. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. New episodes of Severance season 2 premiere Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on Apple TV+. Read the original article on People
Express Tribune
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Paranoia on a silver platter
It's been three years since Severance first burrowed into our collective consciousness, bringing with it a vision of corporate life so precise, so unsettling, that even the most mundane office corridors began to feel vaguely menacing. With its stark fluorescent lighting, labyrinthine hallways, and the eerie blankness of Lumon Industries' employees, the Apple TV+ series took the drudgery of the nine-to-five and turned it into something existentially harrowing. With a second season airing since January 17 and the psychological thrills intensifying, the wait between episodes may send some dedicated fans to seek similarly mind-bending worlds. Few shows achieve Severance's delicate balance of psychological intrigue, corporate satire, and reality-warping mystery, but fret not for there are a few that come close. Here are five that tap into the same unease, peeling back layers of identity, control, and the ever-permeable boundary between work and self. 'Devs' If Severance left you thinking about the godlike power of corporate overlords, Alex Garland's Devs pushes that idea further - into the world of determinism, quantum mechanics, and a tech giant that operates more like a religious cult than a company. At the centre of it is Lily Chan, a software engineer whose boyfriend mysteriously dies after being recruited into the secretive Devs program at Amaya, a Silicon Valley behemoth run by Nick Offerman in full enigmatic-guru mode. There's a similar precision at play here: sterile, monolithic spaces, an oppressive corporate aesthetic, a creeping sense that nothing - not even free will - is safe from the grasp of the employer. But whereas Severance severs memory, Devs dismantles the very notion of choice. And like Lumon, Amaya is not just a workplace, it's an all-consuming system, one that dictates reality itself. 'Homecoming' For those drawn to Severance's tightly wound corporate conspiracy, Homecoming delivers a similarly slick, paranoia-laced descent into institutional control. The first season, led by Julia Roberts, unfolds in two timelines: one where her character, Heidi Bergman, works at a facility designed to rehabilitate soldiers, and another where she has no memory of having ever worked there at all. The comparisons are easy to make - both shows manipulate memory as a tool of control, stripping their characters of agency while keeping them trapped in eerily precise, almost antiseptic environments. And like Lumon's "severed" floor, the Homecoming facility is its own kind of liminal space, where reality bends just enough to be deeply unsettling. If Severance made you second-guess the fine print in your HR paperwork, Homecoming will have you side-eyeing every last bureaucratic process in your life. 'Maniac' Corporate overreach? Check. Surrealist horror masquerading as self-improvement? Check. A meticulously designed, retro-futuristic aesthetic? Maniac has all the makings of a Severance sibling, though it swaps out workplace drudgery for pharmaceutical experimentation. The premise: two strangers, Annie (Emma Stone) and Owen (Jonah Hill), enroll in a drug trial promising to cure all psychological ailments. What follows is a trippy, kaleidoscopic journey through simulated realities, from a Tolkien-esque fantasy land to a '70s-inflected spy thriller - all overseen by a malfunctioning AI with mommy issues. What makes Maniac a kindred spirit to Severance isn't just its visual ambition but its emotional depth. Both shows use their outlandish premises to explore something painfully human: the desperate need to escape, to rewrite, to compartmentalise. And like Severance's Lumon, Maniac's Neberdine Pharmaceutical is an institution with motives far murkier than advertised. 'Counterpart' If what you loved about Severance was its meticulous, bureaucratic take on identity - the idea that one version of you could exist without knowing the other - then Counterpart should be next on your list. JK Simmons stars as Howard Silk, a mild-mannered UN employee who discovers his agency has been guarding a secret: a parallel dimension, one that diverged from our own decades ago. His double, living on the other side, is everything he isn't; hardened, confident, deeply entrenched in an espionage war between the two worlds. The way Severance interrogates work-life balance, Counterpart interrogates fate. Both shows hinge on the idea that we are not simply who we are, but who we are allowed to be. And both make the spaces that govern those identities, be it Lumon's endless white corridors or Counterpart's shadowy government offices, feel like purgatories of their own making. 'Black Mirror' An obvious choice? Maybe. But there's a reason Black Mirror remains the benchmark for tech-driven existential dread. While not a single cohesive story, many of its episodes tap into Severance's key anxieties: the slippery ethics of corporate power (White Christmas), the commodification of memory (The Entire History of You), the horror of having your identity splintered into something unrecognisable (USS Callister). And like Severance, it's less about the technology itself than the way it erodes the human condition: how innovation, in the wrong hands, becomes a tool for entrapment rather than liberation.
