Ben Stiller explains how "The Office" was a major influence on his hit Apple TV+ series "Severance," now streaming Season 2.

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?"

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.

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.

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.