The Severance creator reveals a “crazy” pilot moment cut by Ben Stiller

Speaking in the latest issue of Radio Times magazinesaid Erickson: “The original pilot was even crazier – it had a more heightened reality, like Terry Gilliam’s Brazil or even Monty Python. At one point, a pair of disembodied legs run past in the background.

“Ben asked me why, and I had no idea! He encouraged me to tighten up on the weird, to make sure everything was grounded in a logic, even if it’s not the logic of our world.”

Fans will no doubt be waiting in anticipation to see how the story progresses in season 2 and if any of the ongoing mysteries are solved.

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For his part, star Adam Scott has teased what fans can expect from the new season, telling RadioTimes.com: “Season 1 saw Innie Mark gradually become disillusioned with Lumon, with this place that he believes in wholeheartedly, his whole identity is wrapped up in this place and Lumon, with Kier and Mrs. Cobel, you know, who is like a mother figure to him.

“He loves this place and it’s all he knows and so we see him gradually becoming disillusioned with it.

“At the end of the season, I think he figured he’d hit the ceiling of how disillusioned he could be with this place, but then he finds this explosive information at his Outie sister’s house, and I think it blows the doors off. , as far as he ever thought could happen, how depraved a company or a person could be, I don’t think his mind had ever gone there.

“So we start the season with Innie Mark having this information and how it’s going to affect him down at MDR, whether he’s going to be able to take that information and get it to his Outie and how he’s going to even try to the.

“Who knows, but that’s where we start. That’s where the season starts.”

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Severance Season 2 launches Friday, January 17 on Apple TV+ with new episodes airing weekly. Season 1 is available now. Sign up for Apple TV+ here.

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