Your outie enjoys gobbling up as a lot of “Severance” as they’ll presumably get, to paraphrase a sure Lumon wellness counselor. Precisely how a lot, nonetheless, stays open for dialogue. Season 2 got here to a heart-stopping shut just some months in the past, leaving viewers in every single place bursting with questions. Chief amongst them: When the heck can we count on extra of the hit Apple TV+ authentic collection, how for much longer will it go on for, and is the present’s artistic group planning on turning this idiosyncratic story about work/life stability right into a full-fledged franchise in its personal proper? We already know that season 3 has been formally confirmed and that it’s going to come round way more shortly than the widely-publicized hole of three years between the primary and second installments. In any other case, creator Dan Erickson and government producer/director Ben Stiller have stayed mum on most different particulars.
That cone of silence is lastly being lifted … only a smidge, for no matter that could be value. In an interview with Selection (timed very shrewdly to this yr’s Emmy eligibility window, which ends on Could 31 earlier than voting commences in June), each Stiller and star Adam Scott opened up about their expertise engaged on the present and their plans for its future. True to kind, Stiller did not chew on questions on how far the collection’ writing group at present is with season 3, the entire variety of seasons deliberate, and that all-consuming concern of whether or not John Turturro’s fan-favorite character Irving B., final seen skipping city along with his canine on a prepare, will ever return. However Stiller proved barely extra forthcoming when it got here to the concept of potential “Severance” spin-off exhibits. As he put it:
“There are two particular concepts — that I will not inform you — that we have talked about internally as doable spin-off concepts.”
And similar to that, one single sentence has opened up the floodgates on what’s positive to be limitless quantities of hypothesis amongst followers. Earlier than anybody jumps to conclusions, although, Stiller admitted that any severe consideration remains to be within the “nascent” section of improvement. Nonetheless, that is in all probability not going to cease anybody clamoring for a collection about Rickon Hale’s (Michael Chernus) escapades as a self-help writer, a present advised from the angle of Sarah Bock’s Miss Huang, or a Mr. Milchick Energy Hour starring the good Tramell Tillman. Go together with God Kier, people!
You would possibly begin seeing extra Severance merch sooner relatively than later
As I sit right here and kind this text, staring fondly at a Lumon-branded goat plushie chilling on my desk, the thoughts reels on the considered how a lot cash Apple might rake in if it stepped up its merchandising sport in earnest. The retro-style aesthetic of “Severance” all however lends itself to the sorts of branding offers that might make any studio bean counter salivate like a type of vampires from “Sinners.” How a couple of particular UNO deck modeled after these Chikhai Bardo playing cards? Or a “Cling in there” motivational poster, just like the one which performed an unexpectedly massive position in season 2’s plot? Heck, if this opens the door to Edible Preparations with an enormous ol’ watermelon carving of John Turturro’s face, this would possibly’ve all been value it.
To no one’s shock, the “Severance” creatives are considering alongside comparable traces. Selection has urged that old-school keyboards, patterned after the Macintosh-era tech at Lumon Industries, might very effectively be coming to an Apple Retailer close to you … supplied that they continue to be “bespoke and particular to the present,” after all, within the phrases of Stiller. Which will solely be the tip of the iceberg, nonetheless. Off the highest of his head, Stiller remarked {that a} online game would make fairly a little bit of sense, with Scott in full settlement. (“I believe it lends itself to at least one,” because the actor put it.) For anybody questioning how one thing like that would presumably work, here is hoping they take inspiration from that hilarious “Group” online game episode that, on reflection, feels oddly forward of its time and extraordinarily “Severance”-coded.
The chances are actually limitless and the whole lot is continuing simply because the Eagans have foreseen. Naturally, this train in gross capitalistic extra brings up the entire subject of Apple itself tacitly admitting it is no higher than Lumon Industries, however that in all probability does not matter a lot within the face of all these greenback indicators. Talking of which, does anybody know the place I can get Miss Huang’s water ring toy?
“Severance” is at present streaming on Apple TV+.
