The second season of Severance wrapped up way back in March of 2025, but we’re still mulling over all of our unanswered questions. How long can Mark S (Adam Scott) and Helly R (Britt Lower) remain together now that they’ve decided to defy their corporate overlords at Lumon Industries? What are Lumon’s long-term goals for the severance technology? And what will Mark Scout’s wife Gemma (Dichen Lachman) do now that she’s free of Lumon’s control?
MovieWeb asked Lachman about what might be coming up, and while she couldn’t share many details, she did hint at a world of possibilities on the horizon. “Oh my gosh, there’s a world we don’t know,” Lachman said. “I am so excited to see where they’re gonna take this.”
Every season has taught us more about Gemma. In season 1, we mostly knew her as Ms. Casey, a “wellness counselor” who worked in the bowls of the Lumon building alongside the other “Innies,” people whose personalities have been severed. We had no idea who Ms. Casey might be outside the Lumon building, and neither did she. It ends up that she was actually Gemma Scout, Mark’s wife whom he believed had died; her “death” was one of the reasons Mark was willing to sever himself and work at Lumon in the first place.
Lachman found out there was more to Ms. Casey than meets the eye very early in the casting process. “I found out on a Zoom call with [executive producer Ben Stiller] before I’d been given the part, and I hadn’t read the scripts, but it got me really excited,” she told MovieWeb. “Because initially I thought, ‘Oh, she’s just sort of this office person. Maybe the role wouldn’t be as exciting to play.’ I didn’t know, because I hadn’t read anything. I just had these really weird lines. But when I found out how important she was to the story and what she meant to Mark and the story overall, I felt like, ‘oh my gosh, I couldn’t be more excited to play this part.'”
In season 2, we found out that Lumon had faked Gemma’s death and was keeping her on a sub-floor of the Lumon building where they were doing experiments on her, seemingly to push the limits of the severance technology. At the end of season 2, she’s finally freed and is back to her old self, but now her husband Mark — or rather, Mark’s Innie — has decided to stay in the Lumon building with fellow Innie Helly R.
Where does that leave Gemma? Will she try and bring down Lumon from the outside? Will she try to infiltrate the place like Mark did? Will we learn more about what her life was like before all this drama started? It’s very hard to predict where Severance might go at any given time, which is part of why we named it one of the 10 best shows of 2025.
Dichen Lachman hints at what might be next for the Innies and Outies of Lumon.
Unfortunately, we’re going to have to wait a while to find out more; shooting on Severance season 3 is due to start this spring, which means we very likely won’t see any new episodes until 2027. Fans are surely frustrated with the long wait, but Lachman has some soothing words for them: “I know it’s a little bit of waiting, but anything that’s good takes time. And it is such a masterpiece. I feel like they’re just tweaking and making it everything it could be, the best It could be.”
In the meantime, if you want to see more of Lachman, she’s playing a vampire hunter in the new movie Vampires of the Velvet Lounge, which is due out in theaters on Friday, March 20.
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February 17, 2022
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Apple TV
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Dan Erickson, Mark Friedman
This story originally appeared on Movieweb
