Severance creator explains why reading fan theories about the Apple TV show can be so "overwhelming": "Sometimes I have to stop"

Adam Scott as Mark and Britt Lower as Helly in Severance season 2
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While Dan Erickson "gets excited by the creativity" of fans' theories surrounding hit Apple TV Plus thr🍰iller Severance, the showrunner admits that he does also find them a little intimidating to read.

Released back in 2022, t💖he series c🙈enters on Mark (Adam Scott), Irving (John Turturro), and Dylan (Zach Cherry), three happy-enough office employees who work for a biotech company called Lumon. Before they signed on, each of them underwent a procedure that splits their consciousnesses between their personal lives and work – something Macrodata refiner Mark is particular glad of, having lost his wife Gemma.

But their colleague disappear and a rebellious🐲 new starter Helly (Britt Lower) joins th🐎e team, they start to realize the downsides of living a compartmentalized existence. With that, the quartet band together to find out more about their mysterious employer.

"Ben and I did a lot of work before the show ever came out, before we even got into production on season 1, [when it comes to] figuring out a lot of💯 the answers," . "So there's a l꧅ot more that we know, that we've known from the beginning, that we've not revealed on screen – and some of it we may never reveal on screen.

"People can continue to have their own ideas about it and that's part of what makes [Severance] special. I feel like I can read the theories and enjoy them and get excited by the creativity people are bringing to them. Sometimes, though, I have to stop. Sometimes it does get overwhelming to see them all and be like, 'Oh, I wish we could [go in] all these differeওnt directions', but they are so fun to read."

When Severance returns on January 17, we'll catch up with the innies following their office breakout in the season 1 finale, and explore the emotional fallout of Irving learning Burꦚt has a partner on the outside, Gemma being alive (and Lumon's wellness counsellor Ms. Casey), and Helly realizing she's actually Helena Eagan, a descendant of Lumon founder Kier Eagan.

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Amy West

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