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.

Severance creator Dan Erickson says that he's not scared for the show's return after spending three years in production - and that the new season is even better. "It's much less [pressure] now than it was as we were making it,

Fans dealt with a three-year wait between the show's first season, which ended on a cliffhanger, and its second.

Season one finished nearly three years ago, before the end of pandemic mask mandates, Hollywood strikes and America's reckoning with return-to-office policies. Erickson says all that informed his writing for season two.