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For Your Consideration: Christopher Walken has always been the MVP, from The Dead Zone and Batman through Apple TV+'s Severance

There's so much more to Walken than pop culture would suggest, and we're here to prove it

Features by Graeme McMillan, Editor

Published on Wed Jan 15 2025

Apple TV+’s Severance is a show based around mystery and surprise, centering around the simple idea that, if we had two lives that never interacted, what would they both look like, and how different would they be? It’s an idea that applies to the show’s cast, as well, many of whom have been cast against type and display hidden depths that audiences might not have expected — none more than the show’s Burt Goodman, brought to life by cinematic icon Christopher Walken. But why should we be surprised? Walken has spent decades by this point confounding expectations. For your consideration, dear reader: Christopher Walken is far more impressive than you think he is.

This is For Your Consideration, in which we try to come to terms with the inescapable fact that, honestly, there’s too much out there to have time to watch,

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Graeme McMillan: Popverse Editor Graeme McMillan (he/him) has been writing about comics, culture, and comics culture on the internet for close to two decades at this point, which is terrifying to admit. He completely understands if you have problems understanding his accent.