One of the best sci-fi shows on TV gets huge season three update from star

EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar-winner revealed to JOE when she believes filming will begin on the third season.

Arquette plays Harmony Cobel in the series, who began the story as the stern work manager of the lead character, Mark (Adam Scott). The pair were both employed by Lumon Industries, a giant biotechnology corporation.

Mark is part of a department in Lumon doing work that is so "mysterious and important" that he and his colleagues must undergo "severance", a procedure that splits a person's memories between their work life and their personal life.

This is so that when employees are away from the office, they cannot remember what they did there.

In the first season of the show, Mark and his severed colleagues tried to lead a revolt against their sinister Lumon overlords, with Ms Cobel being framed as the villain of the story.

The second batch of episodes, meanwhile, saw Harmony embark on a redemption arc. After she was fired by Lumon, she turned against the company, eventually becoming an ally of Mark.

Severance Season 3

When season two of Severance ended in March of this year with some shocking cliffhangers, the immediate question was when the sci-fi hit would return.

After all, there was a much-publicised wait of nearly three years between season one and two, partly because of strikes in Hollywood.

JOE recently interviewed Arquette about her excellent new true crime drama on Murdaugh: Death in the Family, which is now streaming on Disney+.

Towards the end of the conversation, we asked Arquette if she knows when season three of Severance will start shooting and if it will see Harmony Cobel continue to fight Lumon.

While she was understandably reluctant to get into plot details, the Oscar-winner told JOE that she doesn't believe filming will start until the spring.

You can read her answer in full below:

"Well, I'm not gonna tell you what's gonna happen plot-wise, but I don't think we'll start shooting till spring. So it's going to be a while still.

"But yeah, nobody really wants to know the answers to these questions. It's like asking what you're going to get for Christmas… You've got to wait, and I have to wait too.

"And I don't even want to know too much in advance because I always get afraid I'm going to spill the beans."

The first three episodes of Murdaugh: Death in the Family are streaming on Disney+ now. The rest of its eight-episode season will drop weekly on Wednesdays.