Ben Stiller and Adam Scott revisited the waffle party in the Jan. 15 episode of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott, along with podcast guest John Turturro. For Stiller, the waffle party — one of many Lumon terms coined by Severance creator and showrunner Dan Erickson — was "kind of an inflection point."

Severance is back and hitting the ground running in its Season 2 premiere, “Hello, Ms. Cobel,” which picks up in Lumon’s offices, moments after Mark’s ( Adam Scott) innie is reactivated following Season 1’s fateful revelation.

Ben Stiller talks about Season 2 of Severance taking three years to make, having fun while creating a world that isn't locked into any specific rules and a failed television pilot with Jack Black called Heat Vision and Jack.

In a 2022 interview with ET Online, Severance stars Britt Lower and Dichen Lachman confirmed that Stiller voiced the animated version of Lumon founder Kier Eagan that congratulates Helly (Lower) for reaching quota in Season 1, episode 8, "What's for Dinner?"

On today's episode of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott, the two discuss season 2 episode 1 with special guest Tramell Tillman. As first pointed out by a Reddit user, the ad breaks in the episode drops one singular word that is important to the series as a whole that could very well be an accidental early reveal.

Most recently, Stiller has spent the last five years directing the workplace sci-fi drama Severance. Created by first-time writer Dan Erickson, the Apple TV+ series follows employees at the secretive Lumon Industries, who have voluntarily undergone a surgical procedure to bifurcate (or “sever”) their work and home lives.

Apple TV+ Though Severance tackles dark subject matter, the Apple TV+ thriller's cast and crew still find ways to bring the joy together. "I think we had 186 days of shooting this season. So, we all had a lot of moments together,