Culture Gabfest: Congratulations! You Finally Got Your Severance.

On this week’s show, Slate Business and Tech reporter Nitish Pahwa (slate.com/author/nitish-pahwa) sits in for Julia. The panel discusses Severance (slate.com/culture/2025/02/severance-season-2-e…) season 2 from Apple TV+. They then talk about the Oscar-nominated film No Other Land (slate.com/culture/2025/02/israel-palestine-doc…) – a Palestinian documentary following a young activist fighting his community's mass expulsion by Israeli occupation. They end by discussing Nitish’s recent reporting on Buzzfeed’s upcoming AI-infused social media platform, BF Island (slate.com/technology/2025/02/buzzfeed-social-m…).
Endorsements:
Dana: The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott (audacy.com/podcast/the-severance-podcast-with-…)
Steve: The Children’s Bach (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722284/the-childr…) by Helen Garner
Nitish: Work by the late author Tom Robbins, particularly Jitterbug Perfume (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/155516/jitterbug-…), who recently died at 92
Podcast production and research by Vic Whitley-Berry. Email us at culturefest@slate.com.

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