In an interview with IndieWire, series writer and co-executive producer Mohamad El Masri teased time jumps and creator Dan Erickson’s master plan for Emmy-winning Apple TV+ show.
“Severance” Season 2 will premiere January 17, 2025 on Apple TV+.
Even in Season 2, we were talking about, what is the end game and how does this show end? A lot of work was talking about that. I think there’s a natural overlap that happens, especially with the second season of a show, that you’ve got to keep [the momentum] going. People are interested, people are watching, and now with Season 2, you really have to sort of think about, not just what is Season 2 going to deliver in a satisfying way, but how does this set up Season 3 and beyond?
I was excited for Season 2, but now I’m afraid. It sounds like the show that is going to drag on forever and never answer anything.
Can’t end worse than Lost. (To the show runners: that’s not a challenge)
That’s actually a great great comparison.
I actually didn’t get to Lost until COVID so while I didn’t love the ending, i thought it was OK. However I had the benefit of being able to binge the show all at once and didn’t have the weekly hype.
But I agree that if Severance doesn’t have a clear plan of where it’s going, it’s just going to wander and have a rough ending.
If they can keep the ball rolling with solid storytelling, I’m willing to give any show six seasons and a movie’s worth of my attention. Any more than that and you’re just getting greedy.
That said, I will say the chances of a show getting stale, losing talent, or somehow jumping the shark in some other way gets higher the longer it’s around, so I understand your trepidation.
I mean if they have a clear plan, awesome, but just taking it as they go, that’s an infinite mystery box.
Obviously not every show needs an ending fully developed from the start, but a show like this does. (And that isn’t to say if the story needs to change later you can’t change it, but your need a direction).
Basically at the end of Severance season 2, I can’t be left with another cliffhanger like the first. They can leave room and leave me wanting more, but they have to answer some of the questions they asked in season 1.
If this gets cancelled without a satisfying endpoint, he’s an asshole.
You don’t have to bury the show at season two. But if you get a second season, and you pretend a third one’s a gimme, on a streaming service, you’re fucking blind. That era is over - and it wasn’t even reliable, at the time. Do not screw your audience.
