Damon Lindelof
Appearances
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Mm hmm.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
You're right. You're right.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Interesting.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
The thing that I love about severance, and I'll start many sentences with one of the things that I love about severance, is the idea of like the body sharing aspect of it is that Helyar is saying, Helena used my body to do this thing. But Helena's position is that- It's her body.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Is that Heliar is like, was threatening to injure my body or like was going to cut off my- And so this kind of idea of like who possesses- The body. The answer is both of them because I, you know, this isn't a theory of severance, but it is definitely my position. Yeah.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Which is I disagree fundamentally with whatever Lutheran pastor sold this line of bullshit to Fields and Burt that innies have souls. There's only one soul, baby. Like, that's the way that it works. And regarding Henry, like, just because you've lost your memory doesn't mean that you're off the hook for all the bad things that you did.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Written by J.J. Abrams at age 23. Correct. But basically like the idea that it would be viable if you murdered someone to erase your memory and that would be justifiable like a method of punishment. It would erase the deed. I'd be like, that may work for you, but let's have a chat with the victims. And so I'm a one soul per body kind of guy.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And as all these kind of triangles and quadrangles where it's like, I really hope something special happens when Mark Scout has sex with Helena Egan on the outside because that completes the quad, right? And it seems like— Everybody else is now hooked up except for those two.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
It seems to be on.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
They have just, or Foo, because the zoo is out.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
That's right.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Oh, the one that's coming up. Yeah.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
I will.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Through the lens of a Western white fellow in his early 50s trying to explain the grand space of Tibetan and Buddhist philosophy.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Oh, okay. So that's... That just goes to show you how much I know about bardos. But I read the Tibetan Book of the Dead when I was like in college.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And then like the thing that stuck with me through the haze of pot smoke was this idea of the bardo. And it aligns with other sort of like afterlife constructs. Like kind of most notably in Egyptian mythology, there's this thing called the river Leith. L-E-T-H-E, where when you drink from it, you forget your entire life.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And then that allows you to kind of like for your soul to kind of transcend and move on to whether you're going to be reincarnated or move into some sort of higher state of light and being.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Exactly like that film.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And And not like the film where Nicole Kidman hooks up with a nine-year-old in a tub.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Pretty interesting movie. Jonathan Glazer. That's a cool movie. It is weird and very uncomfortable.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
and Sybil Shepherd? It's the exact same plot as Chances Are, which is why I'm referring to it. But it's not a romantic comedy.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah, for sure. The general idea of the bardo is that when you die, you enter into the space that is called the bardo. And in that space, you aren't aware that you're dead. You're just sort of like, it's a little bit like being in a dream, right? You're not, you don't know that you're dreaming unless you're lucid dreaming.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And in this space, the Bardo, you're interacting with all the people that you've known in your life, who you've met, maybe even some strangers, people who died before you died, and then people who died long after that you died, because it's a timeless place. Like, there's no, you know, the... There's a similar sort of like approach to this movie Presence that Soderbergh just did.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
It's a ghost story, but it mixes in a small degree of time travel in the sense of like you can enter into an afterlife where people who are still alive are also there because they will eventually die and the afterlife is timeless. The objective of the bardo Is for you to identify that you are dead, for you to remember that you died.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
But no one is allowed to tell you, so it's kind of like an elaborate prank show. It's like jury duty. With James Morrison? Yeah, we're all Ronald in the Bardo. Now, some people are still kind of like just wandering around the Bardo forever. They never...
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
They never do the things that they – and my understanding always was that in order to gain this sort of like sense of illumination that you are in fact dead, you kind of have to own your shit. You have to say these are the things that were holding me back as a person. These are the people that I hurt that I have to kind of like atone for.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And like, if you, if you, if there's no sense of, of like knowing thyself and this is like, we're kind of like getting into the leftovers of, you know, I've been playing around with that mythology and international assassin. We talked about like the river leave and, and, and if you drink the water, you forget like these are, I only have one idea, Joe. I just keep applying it.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Not only to the stuff that I do, but everybody else's shows, but it's like this sort of idea of forgetting.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And remembering. And once you remember, then you take ownership and then you move on. That is, spoiler alert, like what the final season, not the final episode, guys, the final season of Lost, that was the intention, was that this thing that we were calling the flash sideways is a bardo.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Oh, yeah, I know.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Me too.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah, exactly.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
But to clarify, they were not dead the whole time on Lost. Do you want to say it into a camera? This is a spoiler alert that it's okay to know. If you've heard they were dead the whole time, they weren't.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Well, yeah, let's talk about Bert. You mean, is he evil? Yeah.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Well, here's the question. It feels, if your fundamental approach to severance is that their innies are the closest thing to the they they are, that is to say, that's the purest you. it's unaffected by the nature versus nurture argument, right?
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
So it's basically like, if you're a nurture believer, you basically like, you're burdened by all the fucked up shit that your parents did to you, like where you were raised, any traumas that you visited upon others or were visited upon you. But then when you sever, All of that stuff goes away. They erase your memory. You know how to drive a car, but you've never driven a car.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
You know how to have sex, but you've never had sex. And so like you're wiped clean. And so it's pure you.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
That's right. And that Dylan is hot. Like Merritt Weaver is like, give me some of that.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And so Bert... is any bird that's my belief I agree and so if he is evil if Audi bird is is well we know at the very least he is a liar yeah you know I'll also say I've come to believe Joe in the course of my life there's a direct proportion between people who know a lot about wine and evil That's just, it's a hot take. Okay. I stand by it.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah. All right. It doesn't mean there are people who appreciate wine who are not evil. But if you know a lot about wine.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah. If you know your wine shit and particularly.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
There's no one more evil on this planet than sommeliers. So I think like Bert has the hots for Irving. Yeah. And in a real sort of like sweet way. And also, he's up to no good.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Absolutely. Absolutely.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
My hope is that what is driving the creative team behind severance on every level, music to craft, to actors, to writers, is the question that always drives me, which is their investment in the show is, are these people going to be okay?
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
You know, like all the stuff that I try to write about and am attracted to, It's the idea of using genre for coping mechanisms. And severance is the ultimate coping mechanism. It's the title of the show. So that everybody, as we learn, why did they get severed?
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
understandably and intuitively, it's some kind of a coping mechanism. For Mark, it's very obvious grief, but there's more nuance in someone like Dylan or Irving, you know, in terms of like, why would you do this radical thing? It's not just so you can skip the boring part of your day. We've all seen that Adam Sandler movie where he fast forwards through the boring parts and it never pans out.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
So that's what they care about. So you and I talking about theories, it doesn't mean that what Lumen is actually up to doesn't matter or that they don't care about it. I'm just saying I want a level set that all that I want from Severance is to tell me, are these characters going to be okay? What do they need to do to be okay?
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And along the way, sure, tell me what the fuck the goats are about, et cetera, et cetera, what lumen is really up to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But all in a fair, like, so my theory is not a unified theory of, like, this is everything that I think is going on. And I've come to understand.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
both by listening to you and Rob and going down the rabbit hole on think pieces that I'm reading from people that I love and respect, that a number of the ideas that I'm about to advance are not unique. But that is to say, it dovetails with them. But I do have one thing to say that I have not read or heard.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
I do think that, like, the play here is to bring Kier back to life. Right. It's a resurrection play. Or I can't remember what the exact word that— Revolve. But what is—is that the word that Helyar's dad used? I hope you're there at my revolution, my revolving. Okay, so it's like—
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
It has very, like, Logan's runny, but it's, like, but this sort of idea of, like, and it's not just because there's a baby cure at the end of the new Entitles. It's, like, this is a straight-up kind of spirituality play.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Like, we're using, you know, this is like Catholicism in the office. Yeah. Like, you know, writ large. And I am so there for it. Yeah. And I fucking love every bit of it. Yeah. So, yes. At the end of this all, is there cloning technology happening 1,000%? Like— Clones, growing new bodies. My belief is that Gemma, Mark's wife, did in fact die. Right. He identified her body.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
The outside world did whatever testing they needed to do. I don't think Lumen was so nefarious as to like go grave rob a corpse and like, and then like doctor all the things. But I do think that they grew a new body for her. And that's the person that we know as Mrs. Casey. It's why she even has a different name. Like, You could just call her Gemma.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Mark still wouldn't know. Right. Like, if he doesn't recognize her, he doesn't recognize her. So they are making clones. They are growing new bodies. And ultimately, like, the Severance play is – We will put a chip in your head. That chip will basically absorb the you you are. And then that chip can be transferred into a new version of you when you begin to age.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And we are all living in the perpetuity.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Revolve, revolve, revolve. That's the game. In season one, Bert makes, he's heard this rumor in optics and design. They've all heard this rumor about MDR that they have pouches. Yeah. And it becomes this kind of like very silly joke that has like a punchline and they're all sort of like chuckling about it. And I thought it was hilarious at the time. But now – and we come into season two.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And we enter into the goat room.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
With Gwendolyn Christie, yeah.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And with Gwendolyn Christie, the amazing Gwendolyn Christie. And she asks them to – Show her belly button. And how do, what are the physical definitions? What are the descriptors that we use to describe what a belly button looks like?
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Clones don't have belly buttons.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Because they're not, they're not carried in utero. They don't have an umbilicus.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
So the only way.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah. Like a candle. So they're using this story of pouches as like cover to do belly checks.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And I'm telling you, someone is fucking, Mark and Helly are clean. Yeah. We saw, we got, we had full navel.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
We haven't. And I'm just going to go out on a limb and say, if I haven't seen your navel, you might be a clone. You might be a clone. We're in Battlestar territory here.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
This is my thinking.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
You and I are pod people right now.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
There it is.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
It's, yeah. Okay. We'll call it, yeah.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
The belly button theory. I'm trying to do some kind of play on, let's call it, we're navel gazing.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah. Punching it up as always.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah. Hashtag navel gaze. If there's a unified... Field question around Severance, it's what does Lumen do? Yeah. What is Lumen up to? What's their endgame? And the unified theory of Lost is what is the island? And I always like struggled with that as like, I don't even know how, like, do I have to explain that? And over time became to believe that we had to explain it.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And in hindsight, go, our efforts to explain the answer to that question all failed. And maybe we should have just dealt with the frustration of, like, once you're talking about corks and, you know, like, I always felt like not entirely confident in answering that question. But I also understood why the audience is like, hey, buddy, we're 75 episodes into this shit.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
You better fucking tell us what the island is.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah, but openly, like, openly declaring.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And I would say, like, conservatively, for every 25 people who watched Lost, one person watched The Leftovers. That's probably being generous. But it's sort of like people, it's, if you're selling them a puzzle and you go like, hey, all the pieces might not be in here. Yeah. You go, what? No, it's like, it's a 1,000-piece puzzle. I want to know that they're all in here.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
It's like, maybe they are, but wouldn't it be exciting if they weren't? No, it wouldn't be exciting, you fucker.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Right. And, and I, and I think, I think to some degree, like for those kinds of shows, you know, You know, puzzle box shows or mystery box shows, whatever it is you want to call them. You can't really hold those alongside like the Breaking Bad's and Better Call Saul's and Sopranos because those shows didn't they they they they had to end.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
and the endings were based around what's going to happen to these characters and how good is the final episode. But they weren't based around the Encyclopedia Brown, skip to the back of the book, not just why did Bugs Meany do it, but why are we alive? Why do we exist in the world?
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And I think Severance is playing with much more interesting metaphysical questions that it has no interest at all in answering. Like, what is the self? It's much more interested in kind of like exploring. But this is why I kind of go like, the end game of Severance just has to be like, is Mark going to be okay? Is Hallie going to be okay? Like, now I'm sort of like...
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
I have no investment whatsoever in Mark and Gemma's marriage because you haven't shown me the episode of them being together. Yeah. But if you showed me that episode, I'd start to feel quite torn about who I wanted him to be with.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
But they're not the numbers.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Oh, really?
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
In this season? In the first couple episodes? This is a new data point.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
That's very exciting. And I look at that as like, you know, I know that Dan is a fan of Lost.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yes, right. And so I look at that as like, it's just a nod towards like the homage of like, hey, I just want everybody to know I watch the show.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Right. And it's like, and there are, you know, there have always been You know, design elements and the aesthetic or, like, or just the Milchik video. Yes. You know, where you're basically like, okay, like, I'll just say I'm always delighted by it. Yeah. Like, because, again, Lost did all the same. There's such a difference between a ripoff and a riffoff. Yeah. And these all feel like riffoffs.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And, like, just to, you know, and all the stuff that we were doing on Lost, it's like, you know, nosebleeds in the constant are, like, from Firestarter. Yeah. you know, and Stephen King borrowed that from, you know, I mean, like- Yeah, yeah.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Not remotely. And I would just say like- Almost any idea that we had on Lost, I'm sure you'd be able to find some version of it in something that one of us had read or experienced in movies, television, literature, you know, in our life. But, you know, you're throwing all of that stuff in the blender and our job is like to make the smoothie delicious. And Severance is doing something entirely new.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yeah. So it's like... all it does is it excites me to riff on severance on the next thing that I do.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
So it's like, because that's the thing. It's like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, they were annoyed by like Sergeant Pepper Magic Mystery Tour, Pet Sounds, but then they were like, oh my God, you can do that?
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And so like that idea that I'm alive right now in a time and space where like we're riffing on each other's stuff and the fact that some of the stuff that I have done is being riffed on in a show that I love. It's not just me loving myself, but it is the sort of idea of like, oh, this is in continuity now with sort of a straight line of all the stuff I love.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Because I'm not a musician, I'll never be able to go on stage and jam with the musicians who followed me. But it's like, I'm now Paul Simon, on that stage. Sabrina Carpenter is, is, is like, is, is way behind me, but I identify with him.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And I'm, I'm cool enough to go that Sabrina Carpenter, right. But my son still has to go like, right. Like I'm not, I don't, I'm not like.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
She's a great job. Yeah. Big fan.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Okay, so that's, yeah, that's not a coincidence.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Oh my God.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
So here's what's really exciting. I'm going to walk out of the studio right now because we're talking on Tuesday. Correct. And even though people will be listening to this later in the week, I'm going to crypto.com and I'm going to watch the Mavericks play the Los Angeles Lakers. Correct. And basically their first face-off since the trade. And so I don't know what's going to happen.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
I think like what Noah – the – What no one is expecting to happen is that the Mavericks completely and totally blow out the Lakers and that Luca has a horrible game because he's just like in his own head. And then that will basically start the, oh, we had it all wrong about what this trade was. Or it goes the other way. I just hope like it's a fabulous and fantastic game.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
I would say I'm still wrapping my brain around the fact that Luka is a Laker because I really disliked him a lot as a Laker fan and a Clipper fan. And the Mavericks have knocked teams that I liked out of the playoffs with intensity and also Luka just complained so much. If there's one thing I hate in the NBA, it's just working the refs and second to flopping.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And like Luca may be and is one of the best players in the league.
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‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
But he is the worst when it comes to like whining. And for someone as talented, you shouldn't whine so much. And so I'm still.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
My conspiracy theory is there's something that we don't know about Luca. Does he have a belly button? Oh, great question.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
I think that the Lakers don't know it either.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
I think very few people know it. Okay. And we're going to find out what it is. Okay. And when we find out, we're going to go, oh, the Mavericks got the better end of this deal.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
But maybe this is just all my Luca bias sort of like not embracing it. Like I just – when something is too good to be true, it usually is.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Just – You know what? I've got good seats.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
And I will shout to Luca repeatedly, show me your belly!
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Until they throw me out.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
They have to tuck. It's a violation.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
To be untucked.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
But he could flash it. Yeah, during a timeout.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
But yeah, he might get teed up.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
What a way to end. Thanks for having me. Can't wait to meet you, Rob.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
Yes. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I feel like I just did it in the waiting room.
The Prestige TV Podcast
‘Severance’ Season 2, Episode 7 With ‘Lost’ Cocreator Damon Lindelof
All right. I was not let down by having them. It was one of those weird things where I was like, oh, I've listened to you for 300 hours and this is the first time that I'm meeting you in the flesh. Yeah. She's great. She is the best.