Although Severance fans have a lot of praise for the show, they will also be happy to admit they can test their patience. Not only was the Season 2 teasing the story of reintegration, but waiting between seasons 1 and 2 was absurd for long. On April 18, 2022, the final of the season 1 Left fans of massive clifancherOne that was supposed to wait until January 17, 2025 to see it.

This waiting time between seasons is beaten only by "Stranger Things", which can Blame your visual effects-heavy premise for delaysand "euphoria", where All that can go wrong There are I passed wrong With the production of Season 3. So what is the pronunciation of "cutting off" manufacturers? Some fans are rumored to have a drama behind the scenes. The rumors were fueled by reports The fights between the show -Show Ben Stiller and Dan Ericsson and the "toxic environment" as a whole. In recent Interview with the varietyHowever, Ben Stiller closed these rumors:

"Everyone in the show is teaming up. There has never been any wonder of our show between anyone.

Stiller also said he did not believe that many conversations behind the scenes should necessarily be announced: "I do not want to tell people the interior of what is happening because, honestly, it is private."

To be fair to the show, the production of the "Season" in the season 2 suffered much of the writers' strike in 2023, which Put the industry in standby 148 days. The writers' strike is the culprit behind most delays for TV shows that returned in 2024, and was particularly fatal as Hollywood recently recovered from A massive disorder in the industry that was Kovid's pandemic.

"It took time to write Season 2," Stiller said In an interview in 2024. "Then we started shooting in October 2022 and closed the strike in May (2023). At that moment, we had completed about 7 of our 10 episodes, and then we had to regroup the strike.

Dan Ericsson explained that besides the strike, Severance is a complicated writing show. The tinted characters and the tension that fans occupy is not something that can be quickly withdrawn. As Ericsson said:

"Each Character has Two Lives - Essentially, Two Personalities - and we are expanding. up with something that worked perfectly well on paper, and then it would be until we do there and we're shooting it. That wasn't perfect. "

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