S2E60-Severed ORIGINS-Eternal Sunshine-PT01
Severed: The Ultimate Severance Podcast
Allen Stare
4.8 • 733 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Well, actually it's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman wanted it to be even longer than that. His original title was 18 words! But, we'll get into that and a whole lot more. This is the 'Severed: Origins' series breaking down those things Dan Erickson has mentioned as being inspiration during his creation of 'Severance.'
This ORIGINS entry is a trippy 2004 title from French Director Michel Gondry. Both Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller list it as an inspiration. It stars Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey. This is considered one of the best things Jim Carrey has ever done.
Get ready for Part ONE of this enormous movie breakdown.
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Huge thanks to Adam Scott, star of 'Severance' and host of the Severance Podcast for recording a custom intro for "Severed." Make sure to check out 'The Severance Podcast w/Ben Stiller & Adam Scott" wherever you found this one!
A big 'thank you' to friend of the pod Kier Eagan, er I mean Marc Geller! Marc both sat for an interview (make sure to check it out) AND recorded some great bumpers as Kier himself. Follow Marc on Instagram @geller_marc.
BIG Thanks to Friend of the Podcast Hayley Erickson-Goelzer. She is Sister to creator Dan Erickson and also a listener. It took getting approval from Dan's Press Person, but thanks to her follow-through we've got a custom bumper from Hayley Erickson-Goelzer!!
Yes, that is really and truly Primary Director and Executive Producer Ben Stiller doing a custom bumper for 'Severed.' He actually did this bumper for the show while we were recording an interview for the Official Ben & Adam Podcast. Thank you, Ben for the Bumper and for bringing this incredible show to the screen!!
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Season 2 of "Severance" kicked off 1/17/2025 and ran through 3/20/2025.
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Needing your own copies of the Lexington Letter and Orientation Booklet? I've got you covered with downloadable PDFs of both documents:
LETTER: LEXINGTONLETTER-TheLetter.pdf
HANDBOOK: LEXINGTONLETTER-MDROrientationHandbook.pdf
You haven't completely watched 'Severance' until you've listened to 'Severed'.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Severed, the Ultimate Severance Podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome back, Refiner. You've once again found yourself listening to Severed, the |
| 0:18.4 | ultimate severance podcast. I'm your host, Alan S. This is another |
| 0:23.1 | chapter on our look at those things that inspired the creation of severance. This is the Severed |
| 0:28.8 | Origins series. These Severed Origins episodes are based on the things Dan Erickson has listed |
| 0:34.6 | as being inspiration during the writing and creation of severance. A film that has been mentioned with reverence by both Dan Erickson has listed as being inspiration during the writing and creation of severance. |
| 0:38.3 | A film that has been mentioned with reverence by both Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller |
| 0:43.1 | is this 2004 title from director Michelle Gondry and scriptwriter Charlie Kaufman. |
| 0:48.8 | It's called The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. |
| 0:55.0 | As for the title, yeah, seven words is a bit much. |
| 0:59.3 | This was actually cut down from the 18-word title Charlie Kaufman originally intended. |
| 1:04.6 | He said he very intentionally wanted a title that would not fit on a marquee. |
| 1:10.2 | As with a lot of Charlie's wildest ideas, he was |
| 1:14.1 | talked into toning this one down to the still very long and unwieldy title we wound up with. |
| 1:20.4 | Kaufman says he likes the fact it is awkward. The title is a quote from an epic love poem. If you've |
| 1:27.2 | been with me for other |
| 1:28.0 | origins episodes, you might remember this one. In the film being John Malkovich, the John |
| 1:32.8 | Cusack character is a puppeteer. One of his street performances includes a steamy R-rated segment |
| 1:39.4 | of the love letters written between Eloisa and Aelard. Theirs was an impossible doomed lovers |
| 1:45.9 | kind of scenario. She had been his star pupil. They had an affair, married secretly, |
| 1:51.8 | and she became pregnant. She entered a nunnery for her safety where she became a nun, while |
| 1:57.7 | still madly in love with a mortal man. Eloisa and Abbalard were kept apart by religion and society, but managed to write these |
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