Ben Stiller Teases When Severance Season 3 Could Arrive on Fallon Tonight

Good news for everyone still staring at that break room screen: Severance Season 3 is actually, finally on the way. It is not a date-stamped announcement yet, but the show is moving, people are talking, and yes, filming is underway. Breathe.

Where things stand right now

Ben Stiller popped up on The Tonight Show and called the new season 'soon-ish' — not exactly a calendar date, but more concrete than silence. Apple officially renewed the show back in March 2025, when CEO Tim Cook confirmed Season 3 on X. Around that time, Stiller also tried to calibrate expectations in an interview, basically saying the goal is not another three-year wait between seasons.

'Yes! It’s been full time the last 8 months working on season 3 and I’m not going anywhere. We have incredible directors and a team that creates the show... I feel like season 3 is going to be the best yet...'

- Ben Stiller on X, August 18, 2025

Worth noting: Stiller is not directing episodes this time, but he is still heavily involved. Given the show’s famously meticulous creative process (and how that patience paid off in Season 2), that tracks.

Why the wait was so long last time

The gap between Season 1 and Season 2 stretched close to three years. That was a perfect storm: the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes slowed the entire industry to a crawl, and Severance is the kind of series that does not crank out episodes quickly even in the best of times. Frustrating? Absolutely. But Season 2 arrived with bigger ideas, bigger scope, and a lot of fans saying the extra time showed up on screen.

What Season 3 is set up to do

Season 2 didn’t just push the story forward — it pulled back the curtain. We saw more of Lumon’s reach, more places beyond those gray cubicles, and hints of players operating outside the company’s walls. After that bloody twist near the end, Season 3 has room to slow-burn its way into the larger world: the politics around severance tech, the people and institutions it touches, and what it means when a single company holds power over your literal identity. Stiller has already teased a shift in tone and scope, which is exactly where this story wants to go.

What we know about Season 3 (so far)

• The show is officially renewed; Apple confirmed Season 3 in March 2025 via Tim Cook on X.
• Production is underway; Stiller has been working on it full time and says the season could be the best yet.
• Stiller is not directing episodes this time but remains deeply involved.
• The story is expected to expand beyond Lumon’s headquarters and dig deeper into the outside world’s response to severance.

Season 2’s big swings (and why they matter)

Season 2 leaned harder into identity, memory ethics, and the messy collision between the innies and the outies. The scale got bigger, the world got wider, and those little corporate rituals somehow felt even creepier when you realized how far Lumon’s influence might reach. Performance-wise, Adam Scott delivered his most layered Mark yet, Britt Lower turned Helly into an even sharper emotional anchor, and Patricia Arquette’s Harmony Cobel stayed chilling and weirdly magnetic. Toss in a few unlikely alliances, some brutal moral choices, and reveals that rearranged the Lumon puzzle, and you’ve got a season that genuinely raised the ceiling for what Season 3 can tackle.

So what now? Do we finally live with the outies for a bit? Do we see the public reaction to severance become a real force? My guess: yes to both, and probably in ways the show has only hinted at so far. I will always take a carefully constructed slow burn over rushed answers — especially on a series that lives and dies by the details.

Both seasons of Severance are streaming exclusively on Apple TV+. What left the biggest mark on you in Season 2 — the character swings, the moral mess, or that late-season bloodshed? Hit the comments.