"Watching with this audience has been one of my most special experiences with this show," declared Ben Stiller to a crowd of 3,300 Severance fans who had gathered to watch the season two finale on Friday,

Severance” is beloved by critics and audiences alike. But there was a time when star Adam Scott and executive producer-director Ben Stiller worried the Apple TV+ series might never get made.

The director and executive producer sees the season two ending as a departure. “We’re going into another mode here,” he says. “This is a lot darker and more dystopian than we’ve seen.”