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I'm saying.

I don't know. I'm Stephen Metcalf and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest.

Congrats.

You finally got your Severance edition.

It's Wednesday, February 19th, 2025.

On today's show, Severance, the Apple TV show, has returned

for a second season, belatedly, we should note, after three years, I think, away. It stars Adam Scott

as an upper middle manager at a sinister and mysterious firm where certain employees completely

quote-unquote sever their work and home consciousness as you effectively become two distinct

people with no memory, each with no memory of the other. It also stars Britt Lauer, John Torturo,

and you get a lot of Christopher Walken too as a bonus. And then no other land has been nominated

for Best Feature Documentary for this year's Oscars. It's a joint production of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers whose cameras captured the forced displacement of families from the West Bank over a four-year period.

There's also a ton of archival footage.

Virtually the entire film, in effect, the bulk of the entire film was filmed pre-October 7th for what it's worth. And finally, the odd,

but also oddly resonant maybe fate of BuzzFeed. We'll discuss, but first I'm joined by Dana Stevens,

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