When is ‘Severance’ season three coming out? 

With the second season of Severance reaching its finale, when can fans expect to see season three? Read on for all the latest.

• READ MORE: ‘Severance’ season two review: mind-bending workplace sci-fi is the smartest thing on TV

The Apple TV+ sci-fi psychological thriller series is set within the fictional Lumon Corporation and follows employee Mark Scout (Adam Scott), who agrees to a “severance” procedure where his work and personal life memories are split. The process leaves subjects with no recollection of their “outie” lives while working at Lumon and vice versa.

Created by Dan Erickson and executive produced by Ben Stiller, it boasts a cast that also includes John Turturro, Christopher Walken, Gwendoline Christie and Patricia Arquette.

After the success of the first season in 2022, including 14 Emmy nominations, the show returned on January 17 for season two. The 10th and final episode of the second run arrived on Friday (March 21).

The second season has been warmly received by fans and critics, with many hailing episode seven in particular as a “masterpiece”. It has also led several notable names to be revealed as fans, including former President Barack Obama, who was offered a role in the show by Stiller but turned it down due to scheduling issues.

In NME’s five-star review of season two, critic James Mottram wrote: “As things get all the more intriguing by the minute, Severance is a show best watched on high alert,” adding: “Enjoy the ride and let this unique show tease and titillate your brain until you finally submit”.

When is Severance season three coming out?

Apple TV+ have yet to confirm that there will be a third season of Severance. However, given the growing success of the show, it appears very unlikely that there will not be more to come.

Ben Stiller has already heavily implied that work on the third season is ongoing. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in February, he said a writers’ room was “underway” in Los Angeles, having already suggested back in November in a Collider interview that work on the new episodes had begun.

“You have a responsibility to the audience that you’re going somewhere with it. That’s always been a part of it for us, really understanding where it’s heading to…It should go as long as the story goes, and that’s something we have an idea of, and we’re working towards as we’re starting up our season three work,” he said.

In an appearance on Jason and Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast, he also said that fans can expect that the third season will arrive sooner than the second did.

“It took us a little bit to regroup, and the show, we shot for 186 days on season two,” he said, referring to delays enforced by the 2023 Hollywood strikes. “Editing takes a while, but thank goodness the audience was there when we came back. The challenge was to get people who hadn’t seen the show to watch the first season, so Apple did a really good job of getting the word out and we did as much press as we could.”

Nearly three years separated seasons one and two, so if season three does receive an official confirmation in the coming months, it is most likely to arrive in late 2026 or early 2027.

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