Ben Stiller was requested about how lengthy it might take to launch Severance Season 2 over and again and again. Now, it’s out, and since we needed to wait three years between Seasons 1 and a pair of, he’s already getting questions on when Severance’s third season will come out. So, in response to the wait, the present’s director and govt producer obtained candid about how lengthy it takes to make this present by making a comparability to The Bear that I’ve really been desirous about for years.
Since Severance has a bunch of 2025 Emmy nominations for a season that took years to make, Ben Stiller was requested by Vainness Honest if this type of acknowledgement felt like “affirmation of it being well worth the wait.” Simply by watching Season 2, I knew it was price it; nonetheless, these nods actually assist. Nonetheless, the wait nonetheless appears to trouble the director, as he defined:
On a sure degree, it’s simply the affirmation of while you comply with your intuition—realizing that you need to make sure that one thing feels proper, and that you just get it to the place you want it to be. The frustration for us was that it was taking so lengthy, actually. Generally I have a look at the skin elements, that are past our management, however then additionally—I imply I gained’t lie, I have a look at my very own course of too and go, ‘What’s it?’
That is how The Bear comes into this equation. So, let me current some info for you. Season 1 of Severance premiered on February 18, 2022, and The Bear Season 1 dropped on June 23, 2022. Then, on the 2025 TV schedule, Severance premiered Season 2 on January 17, and some months later, on June 25, The Bear dropped its fourth season.
Meaning within the time it took Severance to make Season 2, The Bear launched Seasons 2 and three and was effectively on its approach to dropping Season 4. That’s form of wild, and it’s one thing Ben Stiller has considered, as he mentioned:
Chris Storer will shoot an episode in an hour and a half or one thing on The Bear. I’m like, ‘Goddamn, why can’t I try this?’
As of late, it’s commonplace to attend effectively over a yr for a brand new season of a collection. Nevertheless, there are a couple of that persistently drop yearly, together with The Bear, which might be streamed with a Hulu subscription. I don’t find out about you, however I am keen on having an outdated dependable that I do know will come out across the similar time yearly.
Nevertheless, I additionally get why it takes exhibits a really very long time. A venture like Severance is complicated in each plot and setting, so it takes longer to make it and launch it to these with an Apple TV+ subscription, plus its episodes are twice so long as the aforementioned collection. In the meantime, The Bear, for probably the most half, takes place within the restaurant and has 30-minute episodes.
All that mentioned, although, Stiller didn’t again away from how exhausting the look ahead to seasons might be on each the creatives and followers. He famous how the strain builds the longer we go between seasons, saying:
That’s the conundrum while you’re in it. You begin to really feel like, ‘Oh, wait a minute. It’s going to take this for much longer, after which there’s going to be that rather more strain on it for individuals who will likely be saying, like, Oh, we waited this lengthy. I hope it’s well worth the wait.’ You’re simply form of caught with that, and you need to transfer ahead blindly.
It’s actually a conundrum, and evaluating Severance to a present that’s launched three seasons within the time it took to launch one is sort of a reality. Nevertheless, I don’t suppose it’s one this Apple TV+ collection ought to fret over.
As Season 2 proved, the wait was price it, and the painstaking element put into the collection is among the causes it is so exceptional. It additionally proves that the time it takes to make a present doesn’t essentially let you know something about its high quality.
The Bear and Severance are every wonderful, and we’re getting extra of each. Artwork takes time, and that point varies from venture to venture, so my recommendation is to simply get pleasure from it because it comes, so these people don’t should stress concerning the period of time they’re taking to make it. Nevertheless, I do should say, I’m appreciative of the truth that Ben Stiller addressed the purpose about his present and the FX restaurant collection that I’ve been desirous about for years now.