Adam Scott Promises ‘Severance’ Season 3 Won’t Make Fans Wait Three Years Again

Few shows have captured the cultural imagination quite as completely as ‘Severance’ has since arriving on Apple TV+. The unsettling workplace drama, which imagines a world where employees can surgically divide their work memories from their personal ones, turned its first season into a genuine pop culture event and left millions of viewers desperate for answers to questions the show seemed to delight in multiplying.

Season 2 arrived in January 2025, nearly three years after the original run, and immediately proved the long wait had done nothing to cool audience enthusiasm. The series surpassed ‘Ted Lasso’ to become Apple TV+’s most-watched show of all time, and the critical reception matched the viewership. Season 2 went on to become the most-nominated program at the 2025 Emmys with 27 nominations, ultimately taking home eight awards.

With that kind of momentum behind it, the pressure on Season 3 to deliver is enormous, and so is the pressure to simply arrive. Speaking to Deadline at the BAFTA TV Awards, star and executive producer Adam Scott addressed fan frustrations about the gap between seasons head on. “We’re always trying to shorten the amount of time between seasons, but it’s more important for it to be great than for it to be fast,” he said, before adding that the team is “definitely planning on getting it out much sooner than the last round, which was three years, which is too long.”

Scott also confirmed that Season 3 filming will be starting “very soon,” though he declined to share any story details, saying that revealing spoilers “would be a bummer.” Deadline had previously reported in February that Apple acquired the ‘Severance’ rights from Fifth Season in a deal worth around 70 million dollars, and that Season 3 was expected to shoot during the summer.

The new season will also introduce a fresh creative voice behind the camera, with director Kogonada set to helm episodes after Scott confirmed he had already met with him. Ben Stiller, who directed half of Season 2’s ten-episode run, will not be returning to direct this time around, though he previously stated he looks forward to directing again in the future and believes Season 3 will be the best yet.

As an executive producer on the series, Scott has already read all of Season 3’s scripts, and during an appearance on Radio Andy’s “Andy Cohen Live” he revealed he may also know more about the show’s long-term direction than viewers, hinting that he already knows where the story is ultimately headed. Scott has also teased that the upcoming season is full of surprises, telling Variety “there are so many surprises,” which sent fans into a fresh wave of speculation online.

For a show built on the premise that patience has its limits, it is fitting that the people behind ‘Severance’ are wrestling with that very idea in real life. The promise of a shorter wait is welcome, even if the specifics remain as carefully guarded as anything happening inside Lumon Industries.

Whether the gap ends up being one year or two, the real question is whether the innies and outies of the Macrodata Refinement department can possibly top what Season 2 left behind, and we would love to know which unresolved thread from that finale you are most desperate to see Season 3 address.