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The Creator of ‘Severance’ Didn’t Realize It Was a Hit Until He Saw a Meme · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest as a creator. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard to nail down the exact moment you realize you've
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  Speaker 1: got a hit on your hands, being a movie, show
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  Speaker 1: or song. But Dan Erickson, who's buying Apple TV plus
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  Speaker 1: high concept sci fi show Severance, does remember right when
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  Speaker 1: he knew it was making an impact, and it came
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  Speaker 1: from an unlikely source, a meme. It was his first
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  Speaker 1: TV show, average, so it was nervous to see how
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  Speaker 1: it performed, he tells Indie Wire. I remember at one
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  Speaker 1: point scrolling through the Internet and seeing a meme using
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  Speaker 1: a picture of our character mill Chick. It wasn't someone
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  Speaker 1: I knew that posted it. It was just a different,
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  Speaker 1: unrelated thing. I realized, Oh my god, it's in the
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  Speaker 1: culture now. We've been infused in the bloodstream and it's
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  Speaker 1: part of what people are talking about. He adds the
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  Speaker 1: moment he saw fans embracing the show was a dream
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  Speaker 1: come true. Severance is out now, that's direct from Hollywood.