Ben Stiller and Adam Scott to Launch the World’s Most Premature Rewatch Podcast
Severance fans have been suffering from a lack of new content for nearly three years now, but don’t worry, soon, even the show’s producers will be watching the same nine episodes over and over again.
When we last saw the workers of Lumon and the world of Severance — spoilers ahead for anyone who is inexplicably waiting until Ben Stiller and Adam Scott start a podcast together to begin watching their critically acclaimed thriller series — Mark S., Dylan G., Helly R. and Irving B. had just pulled off a daring escape into the world outside the secretive Lumon Industries complex and irreversibly punctured the delicate barrier between Innie and Outtie.
That was on April 8, 2022, and ever since that incredible cliffhanger, Severance has left its audience hanging, waiting for a new thread to pull on, begging AppleTV+ to proceed with a second season that will answer some of our questions and ask many more.
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Thankfully, the long wait is almost over, and Severance will return to streaming with new episodes in the new year. But, first, on January 7th, Severance director and producer Stiller and producer/star Scott will launch their Severance companion podcast on Audacy. On the yet-unnamed talk show, Stiller and Scott will discuss and dissect the first season of Severance with celebrity guests before moving on to cover the new episodes as they hit streaming, starting January 17th.
Please try to enjoy each podcast equally, and not show preference for any over the others.
“We have severed ourselves from the world for five years making this show. While we have no memory of what happened during that time, we thought we should do a podcast for all the Innies who will have no recollection of watching, in an attempt to reintegrate them with their memory of the show,” Stiller and Scott explained of the project in a joint statement for Variety, poking fun at their own extended hiatus that no one expected would finally end with a podcast. “We’re happy not to be working with Lumon Industries on this podcast and instead to be bringing it to the world with Audacy Podcasts, who would never send us to the break room.”
On the unnamed companion show, Stiller and Scott plan to host Severance series creator Dan Erickson, executive producer Jackie Cohn, co-stars Zach Cherry, John Turturro and Britt Lower, and even A-list Severance superfans such as Daily Show host Jon Stewart to rewatch, revisit and rediscover each episode of the incredible first season that is almost old enough to start pre-school at this point.
Presumably, the Severance podcast will follow in the footsteps of other successful companion shows like the Better Call Saul Insider Podcast, which two editors on the lauded AMC legal drama hosted along with their various celebrity coworkers as they discussed each episode during the Better Call Saul’s six-season run. However, unlike the Better Call Saul podcast, Severance doesn’t have the advantage of drawing on a massively successful predecessor series to establish its following, and, seeing as Apple hasn’t even formally announced a third season of Severance, we wonder what the hell Stiller and Scott plan to do with the podcast when they inevitably have to wait another three years just to confirm the greenlight.
Maybe, when Severance Season Two ends on another extended cliffhanger, the podcast can pivot and become a music channel — we’ll never get tired of Defiant Jazz.
