Culture Gabfest: Congratulations! You Finally Got Your Severance.

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4.6 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On this week’s show, Slate Business and Tech reporter Nitish Pahwa sits in for Julia. The panel discusses Severance season 2 from Apple TV+. They then talk about the Oscar-nominated film No Other Land – a Palestinian documentary following a young activist fighting his community's mass expulsion by Israeli occupation. They end by discussing Nitish’s recent reporting on Buzzfeed’s upcoming AI-infused social media platform, BF Island. Endorsements: Dana: The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott Steve: The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner Nitish: Work by the late author Tom Robbins, particularly Jitterbug Perfume, who recently died at 92 Podcast production and research by Vic Whitley-Berry. Email us at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.0	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. Congrats.
1:17.5	You finally got your Severance edition.
1:19.8	It's Wednesday, February 19th, 2025.
1:23.3	On today's show, Severance, the Apple TV show, has returned for a second season, belatedly,
1:28.0	we should note, after three years, I think, away. It stars Adam Scott as an upper middle
1:32.9	manager at a sinister and mysterious firm where certain employees completely, quote, unquote,
1:37.6	sever their work and home consciousness as you effectively become two distinct people with no
1:43.9	memory, each with no memory of the other.
1:45.7	It also stars Britt Lauer, John Torturo, and get a lot of Christopher Walken, too, as a bonus.
1:51.9	And then No Other Land has been nominated for Best Feature Documentary for this year's Oscars.
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