S1E27 - SEVERED Origins - "The Truman Show" PT02
Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast
Allen Stare
4.8 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
It's time for more "Severed: Origins" as we continue to break down the 1998 Jim Carrey classic, "The Truman Show."
I'm making a long winter meal out of this one, gang. We start this segment by meeting Truman's mother. The lovely Holland Taylor is stellar as "Mom." We hang out with Truman as he's watching some of the offerings on Seahaven's TV channel.
Truman hears some weirdness on the radio and sees a LOT of weirdness in a building elevator. He follows both Meryl and Marlon to work then decides he HAS to get off the island. Flights are a month out (it's the busy season!) and the bus is smoking. Mr. Burbank figures he'll drive his way off the island.
Don't miss out, Refiners!! Following Truman around Seahaven is the most fun you can have in single digit temps!! Is it going to take me ten hours to get through this two-hour movie?? Find out, NEXT TIME...but for now, enjoy this one.
Talk soon!! -Allen S.
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| 0:00.0 | Severed, the Ultimate Severance Podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome back, Refiner, so glad to see you've returned for more, Severed, the Ultimate |
| 0:18.7 | Severance podcast, and our origins breakdown of the Truman |
| 0:22.1 | show. I'm your host, Alan S. Our look at those things that inspired the creation of severance |
| 0:27.3 | continues. Last time, we'd just really gotten started on the 1998 Jim Carrey movie The Truman |
| 0:33.4 | Show. Today, we're going to really get into our deep dive. As always, horrific brain melting spoilers are ahead for the Truman Show. Today we're going to really get into our deep dive. As always, horrific brain |
| 0:38.7 | melting spoilers are ahead for the Truman Show. If you'd like to watch along but haven't seen |
| 0:43.6 | it or haven't seen it in a while, you can stream it with a subscription to Paramount Plus. It's also |
| 0:48.3 | available on free streamers with commercials. It's a pretty easy title to locate. Last time we were introduced to most of the |
| 0:56.6 | major players. We of course met our hero Truman Burbank, who is getting restless cooped up on the |
| 1:02.0 | lovely island of Seahaven where he's been his entire life. There was Truman's wife Merrill and |
| 1:08.2 | his best bud Marlin. We also toured a bit of the town and went to Truman's |
| 1:12.2 | job. The second day we were following Truman, he was sure he passed his drowned dead dad on the street. |
| 1:20.0 | The man who he was just certain was his father was whisked away and thrown on a bus before Truman could say a word to him. |
| 1:26.9 | This time out, we pick up right after |
| 1:28.9 | the bus incident with Truman visiting his mother. He needs to tell her about seeing his father. |
| 1:34.8 | So if you're ready, refiners, it's time to once again open the origins file called the Truman Show. |
| 1:41.8 | We cut from downtown Sea Haven to a shot of Truman's mother. The striking red-haired |
| 1:46.5 | lady playing Truman's mother is legendary television actress Holland Taylor. Holland's incredible |
| 1:51.8 | career began in 1970. Her earliest credits are of her two TV series and a TV movie. Throughout |
| 1:58.2 | her more than 128 IMDB credits, the pattern has been to do several |
| 2:03.2 | TV series than a movie, then several more TV series than maybe another movie. Holland's true |
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