S1E28 - SEVERED Origins - "The Truman Show" PT03

Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast

Allen Stare

Performing Arts, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

IT'S TIME TO END THIS THING, REFINERS!!
Our three part "Truman Show" Origins Odyssey is about to come to an end. Truman's freakout is in full bloom. He crossed the bridge!! (This may or may not mean he has fixed his inner soul). There's a nuclear plant meltdown, a forest fire and a fugitive escapee in the woods...and that's all in the first 20 minutes of this final Opus.

Meryl must bid us a fond farewell...but don't worry. Christof has found another young actress willing to sleep with the star of the show. We'll meet her, too!

Oh, and yes, we'll finally have a chance to really sit down with Christof, the creator of "The Truman Show" and the gang in the Lunar Room.

Truman may have given up on trying to escape...or, maybe, it's his most stunning plot yet!! There comes a time when problems can't be fixed with a beer...but, until that time, we've got Marlon on stand-by with a sixer of Penn Pavel's.

So, if you're ready, it's time to stroll the lovely streets of Seahaven for the final time.

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0:00.0	Severed, the Ultimate Severance Podcast.
0:10.2	Welcome back, Refiner. So glad to see you return for more Severed, the ultimate severance podcast.
0:20.0	I'm your host, Alan S.
0:21.8	Our look at those things that inspired Dan Erickson as he was creating,
0:25.5	Severance continues.
0:26.8	This is the third and final part of our massive origins odyssey,
0:32.0	breaking down the 1998 movie, The Truman Show.
0:35.2	If you've somehow happened onto this episode without hearing parts
0:38.4	one and two, beware, head exploding spoilers are coming. Seriously, if you haven't listened
0:43.7	to parts one and two, what are you even doing here? You really should give those a listen
0:47.7	before waiting into this. When we last left our hero, Truman and Meryl were sitting in Truman's car.
0:55.0	Truman is freaking. He'd spent the whole day trying to leave the island via both travel agency
1:00.5	and bus. Nothing was working. Back home, sitting in his driveway, he realized the people
1:05.7	passing behind him were on a loop. Truman is in some very advanced stages of Truman syndrome. At the end of the
1:13.8	last podcast episode, Truman had just hit the electric door locks on the Taras. Truman's ready to
1:19.7	go right now. He's looking around wild-eyed as he maniacally mangles old sayings. Early bird gathers
1:25.9	no moss. Rolling Stone catches the worm, right?
1:28.9	Right, right? Truman throws the car in reverse. Merrill yelps and we cut to a low-angle look at the
1:35.2	back of the car. Oh my, Truman drives a Taurus LX. That's the luxury trim package. Very fancy.
1:43.9	The license plate is right in our faces lower frame center. It says Seahaven Island above and a nice place to live across the bottom. Truman's license plate is 816 KAZ. I did a lot of Googling looking for some kind of meaning behind this license number.
2:02.4	Nobody knows anything about the KAZ, but I do like this explanation for the 816.
2:08.2	In the United States, 816 is an area code in Missouri.
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