The White Lotus

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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 The 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 The White Lotus Resort in Hawaii 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 [email protected]. Podcast production by Morgan Flannery. Hosts Dana Stevens is a movie critic at Slate. You can hear her talk more about The White Lotus here. Isaac Butler is the co-host of Slate’s Working podcast. You can listen to his interview with the show’s composer here. Rachel Syme is a staff writer at The New Yorker. You can read her piece about the show here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.3	Hello and welcome to another Slate spoiler special podcast. I'm Dana Stevens, the movie critic at Slate. And today I am joined by Isaac Butler, who's the co-host of Slate's working podcast, a slate contributor, and also the author of the upcoming book The Method, How the 20th Century Learned to
1:44.6	Act, that's coming out next year in February, and by Rachel Syme, who is a staff writer at the
1:49.2	New Yorker and has written something lovely on Jennifer Coolidge and The White Lotus. I'm sure that we'll
1:53.7	get to that and to her take on that character and to this whole show. I'm really happy to be talking
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