Spoiler Specials

The White Lotus

Spoiling the HBO mini-series.

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Episode Notes

On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail.

This week, Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens is joined by Slate contributor Isaac Butler and New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme to spoil Mike White’s The White Lotus.

What happens when a group of extremely privileged and wealthy people arrive at Hawaii’s White Lotus Resort for a week of relaxation in the sun? The answer is nothing good.

Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.

Email us at spoilers@stage.slate.com.

Podcast production by Morgan Flannery.

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About the Show

On Slate’s Spoiler Specials, Slate critics, such as Dana Stevens and Willa Paskin, discuss new movies and TV shows in spoiler-filled detail. We dissect twist endings, plot holes, and other secrets you won’t read in reviews.

WARNING: This podcast contains spoilers (duh).

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Hosts

  • Rachel Syme is a writer in Brooklyn who is working on a new biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

  • Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic.

  • Isaac Butler is a writer and theater director, most recently of Real Enemies, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the co-author of The World Only Spins Forward, a history of Angels in America, with Dan Kois.