“I’d love to wrap up the show before I turn 70,” says creator, writer, and executive producer Dan Erickson to EW.
Lumon isn’t finished tormenting Mark (Adam Scott) and Gemma (Dichen Lachman) just yet.
Entertainment Weekly has confirmed that Apple TV+ has renewed Severance for season 3, just hours after the explosive season 2 finale turned Mark’s Outie’s world upside down. But fans can relax—creator, writer, and executive producer Dan Erickson assures that the wait for new episodes won’t stretch another three years like it did between seasons 1 and 2.
Advertisement I would love to finish the show before I’m 70, I would hope that season 3 comes sooner. Certainly a big part of it was the fact that we had the strikes which shut us down for five or six months for production. And there was a difference between that and being shut down for Covid in season 1, because when we were shut down for Covid, I was still writing that whole time, and this time literally it was pencils down. I was making an effort to not even really look at or think about the scripts during that time.
Erickson tells Entertainment Weekly
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Once the writers’ and actors’ strikes ended, Erickson dove back into season 2 with renewed enthusiasm.
Coming back, it was both a challenge and kind of an exciting opportunity because I suddenly looked at the season with fresh eyes, which I had never gotten a chance to do before, And immediately it was like, ‘There’s a couple of things that I want to tweak.’
he explains
Although the creator can’t guarantee a specific timeline for the highly anticipated and hopefully faster-paced season 3, he cautions that it won’t arrive immediately, as Severance takes time to make. Erickson emphasizes the careful approach taken with the show.
It has always been a show that we’re always very careful with it and very meticulous about how exactly we’re telling the story, That was the case on season 1 as well — actually, I think season 1 took about the same amount of time as season 2, but the difference is people weren’t waiting for it at that time. Nobody knew what it was.
he says. He points out that season 1 took just as long to make as season 2, but the difference was that there were no expectations at the time.
However, after going through the process twice, the team has a better grasp of what works and how to make production more efficient.
But having said that, having done it twice now, there is more of a sense of understanding procedurally what works and how to streamline it, so our goal is never to draw out people’s pain for three years. And I hope that we don’t have to do that again.
Praise Kier, indeed.