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Why Did It Take So Long for the 2nd Season of Severance to Arrive? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. If you were a
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  Speaker 1: fan of Ben Steeller's genre twisting hit workplace show, Severance,
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  Speaker 1: season two is finally here, and it's been more than
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  Speaker 1: a minute in coming from fact season one debut nearly
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  Speaker 1: two years ago, which is an awful long time to
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  Speaker 1: wait for answers to the cliffhanger season one left dangling,
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  Speaker 1: and there are plenty of valid reasons for the delay,
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  Speaker 1: namely last year's Hollywood strikes, but writer Dan Erickson, who
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  Speaker 1: scripted the entire first season himself, tells Deadline the main
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  Speaker 1: snapfoo was the creative complexity of the show, saying, each
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  Speaker 1: character has two lives, essentially two personalities, and we're expanding
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  Speaker 1: on that. For me, the writing was the most painstaking
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  Speaker 1: part in the process because there were so many ways
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  Speaker 1: we could go, and sometimes we'd come up with something
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  Speaker 1: that worked perfectly well on paper, and when we were
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  Speaker 1: shooting it, we'd realize this isn't quite it. We were
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  Speaker 1: never willing to let that turn into something that wasn't perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Severance creator Dan Erickson isn't exaggerating. There there were some
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  Speaker 1: sets and locations they'd already spent production money on that
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  Speaker 1: they scrapped entirely. Season two arrived on Apple TV Plus January.
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  Speaker 1: Seventh Team that's direct from Hollywood,