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- Macworld reports that Apple TV teased Severance Season 3 production through director Ben Stiller’s cryptic tweet featuring blurry images of main characters.
- The official Apple TV account confirmed the news by retweeting Stiller’s post, signaling the popular workplace thriller’s continuation.
- Despite production beginning, Season 3 isn’t expected until fall 2027, though the gap between seasons will be shorter than previously.
Good news for fans of the bleak sci-fi workplace comedy Severance: work has begun on season 3. So it appears at any rate, based on a cryptic tweet from the director and executive producer Ben Stiller.
In a message this week, Stiller posted a blurry and dramatically red-tinted image which seems to show Mark S. and Helly R. running through the corridors of the show’s Lumon Industries setting, echoing the ending of season 2. This is accompanied by a caption supposedly quoting Lumon founder Kier Eagan: “To return to work is to return home.”
As if to give Stiller’s message the seal of approval, it was retweeted a few hours later by the official Apple TV account, along with the playful message “Please frolic in moderation.” As far as I can tell Apple is mimicking Lumon’s surreal corporate house style rather than directly quoting the show, but do let me know by email if I’m mistaken.
Ben Stiller / X
Regardless, Apple has a point: frolicking should be moderated, because this doesn’t mean season 3 is imminent or even likely to arrive within the next 12 months. As a comparison, industry sources reported in October 2022 that season 2 had begun filming, and the first episode wasn’t released until January 2025. Admittedly there were unexpected problems, including strikes and rewrites, but even if things go perfectly to plan we should allow for at least six months of shooting, potentially more, and another six for post-production. We’d expect season 3 of Severance to be released in fall 2027 at the earliest.
That would be a shorter wait than we experienced between seasons 1 and 2, but not by much. The last episode of season 1 aired on April 8, 2022, and the first episode of season 2 on January 16, 2025; that’s a gap of 1,014 days. The last episode of season 2 aired on March 20, 2025, so a launch date of September 3, 2027 would still be a gap of 892 days. We recommend rewatching the previous episodes so everything is fresh in the memory before before starting the new season.
