Severance Season 3’s "Bigger" & "Epic" Story Teased By Apple TV Boss

Severance will have a “bigger” story in season 3.

The Severance season 2 finale concludes with innie Mark S. (Adam Scott) choosing to be with Helly R. (Britt Lower) instead of his outie’s wife, Gemma (Dichen Lachman), along with the Lumon corporation’s Cold Harbor project being derailed. With the finale being released in March 2025, audiences have been waiting for more than a year to see what happens next.

In an interview with Variety, Apple TV Programming head Matt Cherniss shared that there is no set release date yet for season 3, but did not confirm that production is going to start soon. He has seen most of the season 3 scripts and hinted that the story “even gets bigger” from “those epic first two seasons we delivered.” Check out his comments below:

Don’t have set dates yet for the show, but we’re moving along really well, and we’re nearing production on that. We’ve seen most of the material, and I think it totally delivers for the audience. With a show like Severance, the most important thing is that we deliver on sort of what those epic first two seasons delivered, and then it even gets bigger from there.

All details about Severance season 3’s story remain under wraps, but Cherniss’ comments indicate the narrative scope will be expanding further. This follows season 2’s significant expansions, including game-changing reveals about the origins of the severance procedure, Lumon, and what life is like for severed characters other than Mark outside the office. Episodes centered on a retreat for innies in the wintry wilderness, what’s been happening with Gemma all along, and following Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) in her rural hometown further expanded the show’s scope as well.

With a 97% critics’ score and 86% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes for season 1, and 94% and 74% for season 2, Severance‘s reviews have been strong, and both the show’s creative team and Apple TV are committed to maintaining that quality in season 3. The viewership has also been stellar, with season 2 making the series the most-watched in the streaming platform’s history, and only Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus has managed to surpass it since then.

As for Cherniss’ remarks about production, it aligns with Adam Scott’s Severance season 3 update in May, during which he said filming would start “very soon.” The actor also added that “We’re always trying to shorten the amount of time between seasons, but it’s more important for it to be great than for it to be fast. We’re definitely planning on getting it out much sooner than the last round, which was three years, which is too long.”

That being said, Cherniss acknowledged to Variety that Severance “definitely take[s] a while. And when you look at the complexities around the production, the writing of it, it just takes some time.” With filming not having started yet and the amount of time needed for post-production, the show will almost certainly not return by early 2027, which will mark two years since the release of season 2. It may not end up being an almost full three-year hiatus this time, but it is all but guaranteed to be more than two years at this point.

Elsewhere in the interview, Cherniss discussed how despite Ben Stiller not directing any episodes in Severance season 3, which is a change from previous seasons, he remains “incredibly involved in the show” as an executive producer, and “I think that everything he puts into the show is additive, and as much time as he’ll give us we’ll take.”

Severance was created by Dan Erickson, who serves as the showrunner. In addition to Scott, Lower, Lachman, and Arquette, the cast includes Zach Cherry as Dylan G., John Turturro as Irving B., Tramell Tillman as Mr. Milchick, Christopher Walken as Burt G., Jen Tullock as Devon Scout-Hale, Michael Chernus as Ricken Hale, Sarah Bock as Ms. Huang, Sydney Cole Alexander as Natalie Kalen, Michael Siberry as Jame Eagan, and Darri Ólafsson as Mr. Drummond.

Severance seasons 1 and 2 are streaming on Apple TV.