Severance Season 3: Cast, Latest News, and Everything We Know

If you're still poring over and theorizing about the blockbuster Season 2 finale of Severance, you're not alone. It's no surprise that the Apple TV+ series has been renewed for a third season, though we don't yet know when we can expect to see new episodes. While patience isn't one of Lumon's core principles, Severance fans happen to be great at waiting.

In the meantime, we'll continue updating this post as we learn more. Here's everything we know about Severance Season 3 so far.

More on Severance:

• The Season 2 finale of Severance is ambiguous, but it isn't a lie
• Severance's Dichen Lachman on Gemma's emotional Cold Harbor experience
• Severance's Tramell Tillman on Milchick's marching band scene
• Gwendoline Christie breaks down her Severance finale action scenes

Severance Season 3 latest news

The first major piece of news about Severance Season 3 is bittersweet: Ben Stiller is stepping away from the director's chair for the show's third season. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Severance's main director and executive producer revealed he won't be helming any episodes as he focuses on other projects. "These things take time to come together," Stiller said. "The older you get, the more you realize that you only have so much time."

Following the news, Stiller clarified on X that he's not leaving the show. "It's been full time the last 8 months working on Season 3 and I'm not going anywhere," he wrote. "We have incredible directors and a team that creates the show. I love directing it and look forward to at some point again for sure. I feel like Season 3 is going to be the best yet as we continue to evolve."

When will Severance Season 3 premiere?

No idea! But by the grace of Kier, the wait for Season 3 probably won't be as long as the three-year gap between Seasons 1 and 2. Barring any external factors, like the ones that delayed the release of the second season (from the pandemic to the Hollywood strikes), showrunner Dan Erickson has been hopeful about the timeline.

"I would love to finish the show before I'm 70," Erickson told Entertainment Weekly. "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."

Severance Season 3 cast

No casting announcements have been made yet, but there was enough story set up for the characters by the end of Season 2 for us to assume that many of the major players, including Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, Dichen Lachman, and Patricia Arquette, will return.

The future of John Turturro's Irving and Christopher Walken's Burt has been a major source of fan speculation after Burt sent Irving off on a train to an undisclosed location for his own protection in Season 2's penultimate episode. That said, Turturro told The Hollywood Reporter that he hopes to return for the third season. When asked if he'd be happy with that being the end of Irving's journey, he said, "No. And I don't think it is. If someone wanted the story to be complete? It could be! But I think there's so much more here."

What will Severance Season 3 be about?

What won't Severance Season 3 be about? The Season 2 finale left plenty of threads dangling, from the war between innie and outie Mark to Mr. Milchick's future at Lumon to the Gemma of it all.

When asked about Gemma's experience in the Cold Harbor room, Lachman told TV Guide, "I think it's just that she's been curious about what happens after that room. On the day when she sees her clothes that she was wearing when she left the house that night [when she supposedly died], she's kind of curious if this is the end of the road for her going through this process." If you're wondering what that means for Gemma going into Season 3, Lachman is just curious as we are. She added, "Also, she gets to 100 percent just before she goes into that room, and I'm not sure what that's going to mean for her moving forward."

Tillman also told TV Guide that the finale leaves Milchick in an interesting place regarding his job as manager of the severed floor. "He might feel that his days are numbered, I'm not sure," Tillman mused. "If he's going to go out, he's going to go down with a fight. I really believe that. I'm not saying he is going to get fired, but if there was a world that he would be removed from the company, he would not take it lightly."

And that last shot of innie Mark and Helly running off together will certainly have major reverberations going into Season 3. "I think that the question on Mark and Helly's mind is going to be just 'Now what?'" Erickson told io9. I think they have chosen to continue to live, and I think they don't know what that means exactly, how long they have, if this is something where they're going to be able to exist for two more minutes or 10 more years? And so it's the question of, what would you do to preserve your own existence? Now that you see yourself as an individual, you've started to get to know who you are, what would you do to defend that?"

Where to watch Severance

Both seasons of Severance are streaming on Apple TV+.