“Severance” has already picked up two Primetime Emmy wins on Sunday evening — from stars Britt Decrease and Tramell Tillman — however earlier within the night, creator Dan Erickson spoke to IndieWire about what’s subsequent for the collection.
“We all know the top, and we don’t actually understand how we’re getting there,” Erickson mentioned on the crimson carpet. “We’ve some thought of how we’re getting there, however we undoubtedly prefer to be open to taking part in jazz a little bit bit and altering issues as we go alongside, falling in love with characters that we didn’t essentially count on to fall in love with, and incorporating them into the story in new methods. I feel it’s potential to overplan, however we all know the place we’re going on the finish of the day.”
In order that’s reassuring, a minimum of, that the showrunners know the place “Severance” is headed. There was a protracted pause as a result of COVID and the strikes between manufacturing on Season 1 and Season 2, and the discharge of the latter on Apple TV+. Season 3 manufacturing hasn’t began, however Erickson, together with govt producer Ben Stiller and his colleagues, are at work on the following installment. The finale of Season 2, in any case, left us on a loopy cliffhanger as Mark S. (Adam Scott) ran off into the horizon (of Lumon’s halls, anyway) with outie Helly R. (Britt Decrease), leaving his spouse (who’s Ms. Casey, as performed by Dichen Lachman) panicked and determined behind a locked door.
As for Season 2, Erickson mentioned, “It was loopy. It was numerous stress goals and sleepless nights and pondering that there was no method we have been going to have the ability to replicate it, calling myself a fraud within the mirror, within the toilet, within the morning. In some way, it labored out. It’s all the time laborious to duplicate one thing that you simply’ve achieved. What I finally realized was that I simply should cease attempting to duplicate it. Let’s try to make one thing that’s new and recent, and let’s shock folks.”
When requested about what Season 2 choice scared him probably the most, Erickson mentioned, “I feel having a complete episode set in a frozen outside wasteland on a present that has largely taken place in an workplace up till this level, that was one the place I used to be like, ‘Are we going to lose folks? Are we going to leap the shark? Or leap the useless sea in our case?’ I discovered, in doing this season, that’s the place the great things is.”
Erickson is referring to Season 2, Episode 4, “Woe’s Hole,” the place the MDR crew — together with Mark S. and Helly R. — find yourself on an ominous retreat within the wintry wilderness.
IndieWire additionally requested Erickson how the company communicate he osmosed whereas working jobs earlier in his profession impressed the Apple TV+ hit.
“I feel numerous the company communicate, the 9 core ideas and all of that stuff, actually is a type of not very exaggerated model of the stuff that I encountered once I was working within the company world,” Erickson mentioned. “And the overall sense of malaise and self-doubt.”
Watch IndieWire’s Emmys interview with Erickson within the video above.