<i>Severance</i> Season 3: What We Know So Far

If you’re waiting for another season of Severance, the best advice we have for now is a reference to the poster of Dylan in the Lumon break room: Hang in there! After becoming Apple TV+’s most-watched series (surpassing even Ted Lasso), the sci-fi show created by Dan Erickson seems like the kind of project any streamer would want to turn into a franchise and run for as long as possible.

Here’s what we know about the next chapter of Severance so far.

Yes, praise Kier! Apple announced the renewal on March 21, the same day the season 2 finale debuted. CEO Tim Cook even shared the news on X (formerly Twitter) with a Severance montage.

“Making Severance has been one of the most creatively exciting experiences I’ve ever been a part of,” Ben Stiller, director and executive producer, said in a statement. “While I have no memory of this, I’m told making season three will be equally enjoyable, though any recollection of these future events will be forever and irrevocably wiped from my memory as well.”

Star and executive producer Adam Scott also said, “I couldn’t be more excited to get back to work with Ben, Dan, the incredible cast & crew, Apple and the whole Severance team. Oh hey also—not a huge deal—but if you see my innie, please don’t mention any of this to him. Thanks.”

The writers room was already underway, in L.A., Stiller told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published February 5. “Everything changed a lot after the strike, for everyone, in terms of the way people are looking at budgets and spending,” Stiller told THR. “To Apple’s credit, they stayed on track with what the show was, and they’ve supported it.”

He previously hinted at the show’s future, telling Collider in November 2024 that the series could go on if it continues to be a success.

“You have a responsibility to the audience that you’re going somewhere with it,” he said. “That’s always been a part of it for us, really understanding where it’s heading to, and Apple’s been really supportive of that and been sensitive to what the story is and not saying, ‘Okay, this is something that has to keep going as long as it’s successful.’ 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 3 work.”

The release date and production plans are not public yet. However, Stiller told THR that he hopes the wait for season 3 isn’t as long as the three-year pause before season 2, which was delayed due to the writers’ and actors’ strikes. He reiterated to the New Heights podcast that it’ll “definitely not” take that long for the next season.

Apple has yet to confirm the full season 3 ensemble. Currently, the season 2 cast includes: Adam Scott (Mark), Britt Lower (Helly/Helena), John Turturro (Irving), Zach Cherry (Dylan), Tramell Tillman (Mr. Milchick), Patricia Arquette (Ms. Cobel), Dichen Lachman (Gemma), Christopher Walken (Burt), Jen Tullock (Devon), and Michael Chernus (Ricken).

New additions to season 2 included Sarah Bock (Ms. Huang) and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (Mr. Drummond). Given the events in the finale, the latter won’t be returning next season. It’s still unclear if Ms. Huang will come back too.

Warning: more spoilers below.

After that mind-blowing season 2 finale, there are a few places the series could go next. While we wait for more details from the Severance team, here are some questions season 3 could answer.

First, Mark’s Innie and Outie are now at odds. In the finale, Outie Mark tries to convince his Innie to get his wife, Gemma, out of Lumon’s testing floor, although their escape would lead to the end of his Innie with reintegration. Innie Mark doesn’t want that; he desires to continue living his own life with Helly in it. In the end, he does help to free Gemma, but he doesn’t leave Lumon with her, instead choosing to stay on the severed floor with Helly. How long can he stay there to defy his Outie in season 3? What would that look like? And will Gemma, knowing Innie Mark chose not to leave with her, spend the next season trying to get her husband out of Lumon?

Although Helly appears to have a happy ending with Innie Mark, an earlier encounter with Jame Eagan might foreshadow some trouble. The Lumon CEO found Helly at her desk and told her that he has lost faith in his daughter, her Outie Helena, as the future of the company. But he does see the fire of Kier in Helly. Though their interaction doesn’t last long, this feels like an eerie hint about Helly’s future. Will Jame choose her as his new successor? And will she be tempted to team up with him?

Dylan returns to Lumon because his Outie vetoes his resignation. He tries to trap Mr. Milchick in the bathroom while Helly and Mark run off, and teams up with the marching band to stand up to their boss. What will be the fallout of that confrontation? But Milchick seems as well, as he has begun to defy Lumon’s authority in his own ways in season 2. Will he fully rebel in season 3?

Will Harmony Cobel continue her quest for vengeance against Lumon to get her due credit for inventing the severance procedure? Will she and Devon continue to work together—maybe even with Gemma—to get Mark out of Lumon? And by the way, where did Irving go? Will he ever come back?

Sadly, no. In a new interview with the L.A. Times published in August 2025, Stiller revealed that he won’t be directing any episodes of Severance season 3 because he’ll be busy shooting a World War II movie in the spring.

“I’m at the point in my life where I’m like, ‘The clock is ticking,’” he said about making time for everything he wants to work on. “Sixty sounds old. It’s hard to get around it.”

Jessica Lee Gagné, the show’s Emmy-nominated director and cinematographer (who helmed the season 2 episode ”Chikhai Bardo“), also won’t return for season 3. “I’m working on a lot of stuff,” she told Deadline. “It’s a big shift for me, moving into directing and DPing. I’m really trying to give myself a shot at the directing thing, which means I have to stop the DOP train and focus on finding the projects that I want to do, and that takes a lot of time. And then you have to push those projects. So I’m in that. I’m in the like, OK I’ve got to believe that the right thing’s going to come along. It’s an interesting, a different pace.”

This story will be updated.