S1E1: Good News About Hell (with Dan Erickson and Jackie Cohn)

The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott

Ben Stiller and Adam Scott

Tv & Film

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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In the Season 1 premiere, Ben and Adam are joined by Severance creator Dan Erickson and executive producer Jackie Cohn to discuss the origins and execution of the series' iconic pilot. They'll get into the mythic early drafts, Dan's mind-numbing (and Severance-inspiring) career before breaking into show biz, and much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of the Severance podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott is brought to you by Confluence by Adlasian,
0:06.1	the connected workspace where teams can create, organize, and deliver work like never before.
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0:15.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Severance podcast, a breakdown of every episode of Severance.
0:21.7	This is episode one where we're going to talk about the pilot of Severance.
0:25.8	Good news about hell.
0:32.9	I'm just so excited we're doing this.
0:35.2	Me too.
0:36.1	You are Ben Stiller.
0:37.9	You are the executive producer and director of Severance.
0:44.0	And you are Adam Scott, the star and one of the producers also.
0:48.1	And the living heartbeat of the show.
0:51.5	You are.
0:52.3	Okay.
0:53.4	And here we are talking about this thing that we've been working on for a long time.
0:59.0	It's so weird because we've been talking about it and working so hard on this for so long
1:04.5	and to be standing back and actually getting some perspective on the show like this.
1:10.3	It's really actually great to do this.
1:12.4	Yeah, and it's really interesting also to kind of go back and actually have to think about
1:16.8	what we have done from the beginning and how it's progressed because it's, it's been a long time.
1:23.7	Yes.
1:24.3	It's been a sizable chunk of our lives.
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