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Slate's Spoiler Specials

Top Gun: Maverick

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Top Gun: Maverick. Film critic Dana Stevens is joined by Slate editor and writer Dan Kois to spoil the long awaited sequel, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Joseph Kosinski. Maverick is pressed into service, training a group of young pilots to carry out a dangerous strike in a rogue nation. But it soon becomes clear that only Maverick has the right stuff to lead the mission. Does Maverick fly high, or get grounded? Is Top Gun: Maverick better than the 1986 original?  Read Dana’s thoughts on the movie here. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore. Email us at [email protected]. Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.7

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0:39.4

Silent green is people.

0:43.3

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0:48.8

What's in the box?

0:55.0

You made it! You blew it up! What's in the box? You maniac!

0:57.0

You blow it up!

0:58.7

Damn you all the hell!

1:02.8

Hello and welcome to another Slate spoiler special podcast.

1:06.1

I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic.

1:07.9

And today I am joined by Slate editor and contributor Dan Cois.

1:11.9

Hello, Dan.

1:12.7

Hey, glad to be back at Top Gun.

1:14.9

Yes, you are my wingman for this episode, and hopefully you'll have better fate than the

1:19.7

wingman of the first Top Gun. I'm really appreciating you coming on to talk about this,

1:23.6

especially because if I understand right, you're doing some side reporting on some of the

1:28.1

geopolitical elements of Top Gun Maverick. Am I right? I am doing a lot of important reporting on

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