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‌Halloween Ends, the third and allegedly final installment of David Gordon Green's legacy sequel Halloween trilogy, debuted this weekend in theaters and streaming on Peacock. Chris Ryan joins Sean to talk about the new film, the year in horror, and to rank all 13 Halloween films.

‌Host: Sean Fennessey
Guest: Chris Ryan
Producer: Bobby Wagner

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'Halloween Ends' and the 'Halloween' Movie Rankings

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103484/

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Mad About You (TV Series 1992-2019) - IMDb

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This sitcom is about the fairly ordinary daily lives of young newlywed New Yorkers, too-nice-for-his-own-good filmmaker Paul Buchman and his assertive partner Jamie Stemple Buchman, who are almost constantly (working up to) bickering and making up with each other and just about anybody else, notably his parents and siblings, her sister, their colleagues, friends, superintendent, and neighbors, psychotherapist, all kinds of staff, customers, officials, bystanders etc., even their dog Murray and his dog-walker.

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Supernatural (but Buffy and Hannibal are right up there as well)

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Supernatural (but Buffy and Hannibal are right up there as well)

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Dr. Rick Hanson has taught thousands of people how to Be Well over the last 30 years, and now he's sharing some of his best tips and practices in the Being Well podcast. The NY Times bestselling author will teach you how to increase your everyday happiness, build inner strengths, and get the most out of life.

Join Rick and his son and co-host, Forrest Hanson, every week for lively and thought-provoking conversation and practical tips and tools for Being Well.

Say, "Alexa, play Dr. Rick Hanson's podcast."

Say, "Listen to Being Well with Rick Hanson."

Send Rick and Forrest a Question:

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Being Well Podcast with Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson

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Dr. Rick Hanson has taught thousands of people how to Be Well over the last 30 years, and now he's sharing some of his best tips and practices in the Being Well podcast. The NY Times bestselling author will teach you how to increase your everyday happiness, build inner strengths, and get the most out of life.

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THE BEAR Trailer (2022) Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri

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Podcasts about the chemical elements and molecules that matter. Made for the Royal Society of Chemistry by the Naked Scientists...

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Listen to Ologies on Stitcher, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.

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Severance is an American science fiction psychological thriller television series created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle. It stars Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Jen Tullock, Dichen Lachman, Michael Chernus, John Turturro, Christopher Walken, and Patricia Arquette. The plot follows Mark (Scott), an employee of Lumon Industries who agrees to a "severance" program in which his non-work memories are separated from his work memories.

The series premiered on Apple TV+ on February 18, 2022. It received acclaim from critics and audiences, who praised its cinematography, direction, production design, musical score, story, and performances. The series received 14 nominations at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series and acting nods for Scott, Turturro, Walken, and Arquette (winning for Main Title Design and score). In April 2022, the series was renewed for a second season.

A biotechnology corporation, Lumon Industries, uses a mindwipe medical procedure called "severance" to separate the consciousness of their employees between their lives at work and outside of it. Due to their increasingly divergent life experiences, the consciousnesses of the employees in the work place (dubbed "innies") gradually split from their consciousnesses outside of it (dubbed "outies"), to the point that they become distinct personalities with their own agendas. One severed employee, Mark ( Adam Scott), gradually uncovers a web of conspiracy at Lumon, and the mysterious project the employees are unknowingly working on.

Adam Scott as Mark S., a worker for Lumon Industries in the Macrodata Refinement division who is part of the "severance" program, whose "outie", Mark Scout, is grieving the death of his wife Gemma.

Zach Cherry as Dylan George, Mark's severed co-worker who particularly enjoys company perks.

Britt Lower as Helly R., a new employee who replaces Petey, much to her chagrin.

Tramell Tillman as Seth Milchick, the supervisor on the severed floor.

Jen Tullock as Devon Hale, Mark's pregnant sister, who later gives birth to baby Eleanor.

Dichen Lachman as Ms. Casey, the wellness counselor on the severed floor.

Michael Chernus as Ricken Hale, Devon's husband and Mark's brother-in-law, a self-help author, whose book is left on the severed floor by Milchick.

John Turturro as Irving Bailiff, Mark's severed co-worker who is a stickler for company policy and is drawn to Burt.

Christopher Walken as Burt Goodman, the severed chief of the Optics and Design division who is drawn to Irving.

Patricia Arquette as Harmony Cobel, Mark's unsevered boss, who outside of work goes undercover as Mrs. Selvig, Mark's next-door neighbor.

Yul Vazquez as Peter "Petey" Kilmer, an unsevered Lumon worker and Mark's best friend who was fired under mysterious circumstances.

Michael Cumpsty as Doug Graner, the head of security on Lumon's severed floor.

Nikki M. James as Alexa, Devon's midwife.

Sydney Cole Alexander as Natalie, Lumon's PR representative and liaison for its board of trustees.

Nora Dale as Gabby Arteta, a new mother married to Senator Angelo Arteta. She underwent severance to avoid the pain of childbirth.

Claudia Robinson as Felicia, Optics employee at Lumon.

Mark Kenneth Smaltz as Judd, security guard at Lumon.

Marc Geller as Kier Eagan, the founder of Lumon Industries, who is worshipped with cult-like devotion within the company. Despite his death, he is represented through sculptures, paintings, and recordings.

Cassidy Layton as June Kilmer, Petey's daughter.

Joanne Kelly as Nina, Petey's ex-wife.

Ethan Flower as Angelo Arteta, a Lumon-backed state senator who supports legalizing the Severance procedure and is married to Gabby Arteta, with whom he has three children.

Karen Aldridge as Reghabi, a former Lumon surgeon who reintegrated Petey.

Michael Siberry as Jame Eagan, the current CEO of Lumon Industries.

Ben Stiller has an uncredited voice cameo as an animated version of Kier Eagan.

While studying English at Western Washington University, Erickson became interested in the theater department, writing short plays and other creative works. Soon after, Erickson attended New York University, where he got a master's degree in television writing. In 2016, his screenplay for the pilot of Severance appeared on Blood List's survey results of the best unproduced genre screenplays. Erickson had worked in an office job before writing the show, stating in an interview, "The initial ideas came to me while I was working a really bad office job and going through a somewhat depressive state." Erickson said his job was so mind-numbing that he wished he could "skip the eight hours of the workday, to disassociate and just get it over with", which became the premise of the show. Erickson is close with his siblings, stating they were inspirations for some of the characters on the show.

Ben Stiller first read the screenplay to the pilot episode at least five years before the show premiered, calling it "the longest thing I've ever worked on." The script was submitted by Dan Erickson as a writing sample to Stiller's production company Red Hour Productions, and passed to Stiller by development executive Jackie Cohn. Stiller said he enjoyed the story's contributions to the workplace comedy. In January 2017, Stiller invited Adam Scott to star. In November 2019, Apple TV+ gave Severance a series order, with Stiller directing and Scott cast in the leading role. Stiller was only attached to direct the pilot but he decided to direct several more episodes as the series entered development.

On April 6, 2022, Apple renewed the series for a second season.

The COVID-19 pandemic postponed the initial production start of March 2020. Principal photography for the first season started in New York City under the working title Tumwater on November 8, 2020, the day after the U.S. presidential election. The opening scene of the show was shot on January 6, 2021. The series filmed for a few days in Nyack in February and in Kingston and Beacon in March. In April, filming moved to central New Jersey, mainly in the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex which stood in for Lumon HQ. Filming was scheduled to conclude on June 23, 2021.

Production designer Jeremy Hindle blended corporate looks from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s for the show's distinctive look, and cited modernist architect Eero Saarinen as influential for the building design. Erickson said the mix of cars and technologies from different eras was meant to "give a slight sense of disorientation" and make Lumon "feel unmoored from time and space". Stiller said the prop master reconstructed old computers so the actors could actually do the work presented on the show in order to get adjusted to the office setting. These computers lacked an escape key, as a metaphor for the lack of control the Innies have while in Lumon's offices.

The second season will also shoot in New York and New Jersey, and began filming on October 3, 2022, in New York City, and was set to wrap on May 12, 2023. However, on May 8, 2023, production of the season was shut down due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike. Production had resumed by May 13, 2023, with filming occurring in Newfoundland.

In January 2020, Patricia Arquette, Britt Lower, Jen Tullock, and Zach Cherry were added to the cast. Tramell Tillman joined in February 2020, and John Turturro and Christopher Walken were added in November 2020. Dichen Lachman was cast in December 2020. Turturro said he recommended Walken for the role of Burt because he had known him for "a long time and I don't have to really act like we're friends."

On October 31, 2022, Gwendoline Christie, Bob Balaban, Merritt Wever, Alia Shawkat, Robby Benson, Stefano Carannante, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and John Noble were announced to have joined the cast for season two.

Relatively recent media that influenced Severance include the online urban legend known as The Backrooms, the computer game The Stanley Parable, films including Office Space, , The Truman Show, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and the comic strips. Older influences include the existential hell in the Jean-Paul Sartre play and the totalitarian dystopia in the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Aesthetically, the series was influenced by the films Brazil, , , and other films by Terry Gilliam.

Severance was met with critical acclaim upon its release. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 97% of 107 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "Audacious, mysterious, and bringing fresh insight into the perils of corporate drudgery, Severance is the complete package." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 83 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

The series received a rating of 5 out of 5 stars from Lucy Mangan of The Guardian and Rachael Sigee of , 4 out of 5 stars from Huw Fullerton of Radio Times, John Nugent of , Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone and Anita Singh of The Telegraph, and 3.5 out of 4 stars from Patrick Ryan of . In her review, Mangan praised Stiller's direction, the writing, and the performances of the cast (particularly that of Arquette, Turturro, Walken and Tillman). Sigee also praised the performances, especially Scott's, Arquette's, Turturro's and Walken's, and wrote, " Severance moves slowly but surely, allowing time to absorb both the impressive world-building and stunning visuals, [...] [and] its breathtaking cinematography and design. With an exceptional cast [...], this is an original, weird, thought-provoking and beautifully crafted story that asks just how much of ourselves we should give over to our jobs." Fullerton also praised Scott's performance and called the series "an impressive creation." Nugent praised the direction, performances of Scott, Arquette, Turturro and Walken, and chemistry between the latter two. Sepinwall also praised Stiller's direction and the cast's performances (most notably that of Scott, Turturro, Walken, Lower and Tillman), in addition to the production design, tone, and season finale.

Grading the series with an "A", Carly Lane of stated that "the most engrossing element of Severance is the many mysteries it presents, wrapped up in silent overarching questions of philosophy, morality, and free will versus choice, and as the series demonstrates, some of those questions aren't so easily solved, but some issues aren't as black-and-white as initially presented either." Also grading it with an "A", Ben Travers of said, "Whether you invest in the allegory, character arcs, or both, 'Severance' hits its marks. [...] Erickson and his writing staff deserve a ton of credit. The season plays out cleanly and efficiently; episodes range from nearly 60 minutes to a crisp 40; cliffhangers abound, but they're earned. [...] This is serialized storytelling that knows how to make the most of its episodic format." Stephen Robinson of gave it an "A-" grade and praised Stiller's direction and the cast, with the performances of Lower, Scott, Tillman, Turturro, Walken, Tullock and Cherry being singled out. From Entertainment Weekly, Kristen Baldwin graded it with a "B+" and highlighted the performances of Scott, Lower and Tillman, saying that "Scott is a superb fit for Severance's central everyman, [...] Lower brings an effective vulnerability to the acerbic Helly, and Tramell Tillman is an absolute force of charisma as Milchick."

Giving the series an "amazing" score of 9 out of 10, Samantha Nelson of wrote in her verdict, " Severance [...] uses a clever premise and excellent cast to set up an intriguing mystery that leaves plenty of room for the characters to evolve." Writing for , Shane Ryan gave it an 8.1 out of 10 and praised the performances of Scott, Arquette and Tillman as well as Stiller and McArdle's direction. Kyle Mullin of Under the Radar gave it an 8 out of 10 and said, " Severance's writer/creator Dan Erickson is another newcomer who pens scenes with veteran-level aplomb. Every scene is a Golden Age of TV gem in its own right. But Severance's dramatic heart resides at the workplace, where it also becomes a white-knuckle thriller. This is where director Ben Stiller especially shines, training his lens and setting the scenes [...]. He certainly brings the best out of his cast."

The American Film Institute named it one of the ten best television programs of the year.

Critics' top ten list

The first season was recognized with The ReFrame Stamp for hiring people of underrepresented gender identities, and of color.

The second season was teased during the Apple Event that took place on September 7, 2022, which featured Helly ( Britt Lower).

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Episode one hundred and fifty-five of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks, and the self-inflicted damage the group did to their career between 1965 and 1967. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a nineteen-minute bonus episode available, on "Excerpt From a Teenage Opera" by Keith West.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

Continue reading "Episode 155: "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks"

This is an apology for there not being a main episode this week. I've been ill most of the week, with an immune system flare-up presumably caused by my covid vaccine booster last week. I've been trying to get the podcast done, and did get a Patreon episode up on Wednesday, on "Sweet Soul Music" by Arthur Conley, but I have only now managed to finish recording this week's episode because of throat problems, and it's going to take a couple of days to get it edited. So I'm restarting the regular Monday posting on Monday. with episode 155, and episode 156 should be up a week after that.

Transcript
Hi. We're still on a skip week, the main podcast will be back next week, but as we've now reached a point in the podcast where more of the people discussed are living than dead, I'd just like to say something, and make a request.
I've seen several people asking people mentioned in the podcast if they're listeners, on Twitter and other social media, and I would very much rather people stop doing that. Please don't tag any living subjects of my podcast episodes into tweets about those episodes. I can't stop you, of course, and I'm not meaning to shame anyone who has, as they've done it for the best of reasons, but it makes me extremely uncomfortable.
I've had people take offence before at things I've written about their work which I didn't intend to be offensive. Creative people will often focus on a single negative aside in what is otherwise a wall of praise, and it can cause them real upset.
I can't stop any subjects of podcast episodes from listening to them, but the podcast is not ultimately for them.
The very best case scenario is that knowing those people are going to hear the podcast makes me uncomfortable and restricts what I say, making the podcast less good. The worst-case scenario is someone takes legal action because of something I've said, and the podcast has to end altogether.
But mostly, I just know that if someone I've talked about is going to listen to my podcast, there's a good chance that they'll pick up on one casual remark I didn't even think about and ruminate about it all day. And I don't want to make people I admire have bad days.
So please, do keep telling your friends about the podcast, but don't tell the stars I talk about. I know you all mean well when you do it, but it can cause far more harm than good.

This week is another skip week - the next main episode will be up next week - but Patreon backers still get their bonus episode. This one is forty-two minutes long (I was aiming for twenty-five, but it grew) and is on the Moody Blues and "Nights in White Satin".

Episode one hundred and fifty-four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs is the last of our four-part mini-series on LA sunshine pop and folk-rock in summer 1967. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a fifteen-minute bonus episode available, on "Baby, Now That I've Found You" by the Foundations.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

Continue reading "Episode 154: "Happy Together" by the Turtles"

Episode one hundred and fifty-three of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys, and the collapse of the Smile album. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a sixteen-minute bonus episode available, on "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" by the Electric Prunes.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

Continue reading "Episode 153: "Heroes and Villains" by the Beach Boys"

The main podcast returns next week, but in the meantime Patreon backers still have a bonus episode, and this week's is a long one - a half-hour look at "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris which also covers the career of the Association.

Episode 152 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "For What It's Worth", and the short but eventful career of Buffalo Springfield. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a twenty-five-minute bonus episode available, on "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

Erratum: I say Moby Grape never recorded the song "On the Other Side", but someone in the comments has pointed me to a demo of it which was released under the name "Stop"

Continue reading "Episode 152: "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield"

We start season four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs with an extra-long look at "San Francisco" by Scott McKenzie, and at the Monterey Pop Festival, and the careers of the Mamas and the Papas and P.F. Sloan. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Up, Up, and Away" by the 5th Dimension.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

Errata: An incorrect version of the file was previously uploaded, with the wrong section edited in at approximately 57 minutes. This was fixed about three hours after uploading, but some streaming services may have cached the wrong file.

Also I say that John Phillips wrote "No, No, No, No". I got this from an interview with McKenzie, but he must have been misremembering - the song is a cover version of "La Poupee Qui Fait Non" by Michel Polnareff, with English-language lyrics by Geoff Stephens

Continue reading "Episode 151: "San Francisco" by Scott McKenzie"

Transcript
This is the official announcement that episode one hundred and fifty-one will be up in precisely one week. I've just finished recording it, and am now in the process of recording episodes one hundred and fifty-two through one hundred and fifty-four while Tilt edits one hundred and fifty-one. For those of you who are Patreon backers, the Patreon-only Q&A is up now.

This will be the start of season four, which is going to work slightly differently from previous seasons, because of the time off I gave myself. I now have a better idea of how much work I can do in parallel, and I've come to the conclusion that the most sustainable release pattern is going to be two weeks on, one week off, so you'll be getting four episodes every six weeks. I will still release Patreon bonuses on the weeks I don't release a mainline episode.

The episodes are going to be written and recorded in batches of four, and the general plan is going to be that every batch of four will have a long episode - a ninety-minute or two-hour one - a short half-hour episode, and two other episodes which will probably be about an hour but can vary depending on time constraints. In this batch, episode 151 is going to be the long one, episode 154 the shortest, and the two in the middle will be middling length.

So, join us back here in a week, for the ghost of James Dean, a prediction of the future, and the start of the summer of love.

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Episode one hundred and fifty-five of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks, and the self-inflicted damage the group did to their career between 1965 and 1967. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

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