Ben Stiller is avoiding fan theories about Severance. At a SXSW panel with Apple’s Eddy Cue, the director and producer said that knowing what fans expect from the show could be risky. It might affect how the show is made and lead to criticism if it doesn’t match their ideas.
It’s dangerous to go there, because there are so many ideas. I check in on some of the podcasts and usually listen until they say anything that’s critical of one of the episodes. Then I stop listening to them and never listen to them again.
Stiller said
Ben Stiller has directed 11 out of the 19 episodes of the show so far. He also directs the Season 2 finale, which airs on March 21.
Advertisement Things are going to happen. I mean, what can I tell you? The season is going to end soon and hopefully people will be along for the ride.
He teased of how the season will wrap
Ben Stiller said that the positive reviews and fan support for Severance are encouraging, especially in the streaming era.
In this day and age, it’s so hard to have something that breaks through, and that you can actually get people to watch and to see, because there’s so much. I mean, our generation — we’re about same age — it was different. You go to the movies — the movies were the thing when we were kids, and television was television — but there wasn’t all this other stuff out there. […] It’s just hard to get people’s attention.
Stiller said to Cue
While Severance fans are trying to figure out what will happen next, Ben Stiller confirmed that the show’s creators already know all the answers to its mysteries.
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On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Stiller recently said that the Severance team has already planned how the series will end. Spoiler: It will not all be “just a dream,” as Stiller joked.
We know what the ending is but how we’re getting there is the creative process. And for those who ask Stiller for details on where the “Severance” plot will go, the director added that he thinks audiences actually don’t want to know. I don’t think people really want to know. When they say, like, ‘Tell me how it ends,’ I’m like, ‘You don’t want to know how it ends.
he said
Stiller previously told Vanity Fair that he hopes fans will be happy with the answers that Season 2 does offer, though.
My hope is that, when they see this season, there’s an awareness that we’re trying to connect some dots, and also leave some dots unconnected and put out some new dots to connect.
Stiller said
Source: Indiewire