A Guide to Spoiler Culture from 'Lost' to 'Succession'

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

Vulture & New York Magazine

Entertainment News, Tv & Film, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When did the rise of spoiler culture begin? And what should the modern-day rules of spoiler etiquette be? Sam traces back the evolution of spoilers with Vulture critics Jen Chaney and Kathryn VanArendonk from the days of Charles Dickens to The National Lampoon to ABC's Lost to that very big episode of HBO's Succession. Why do we get so upset about spoilers? How can we embrace them instead? And why did it take Sam a whole second viewing to realize you-know-who was dead the whole time? (Here's your obligatory: There be spoilers ahead.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and
0:06.0	justice produced with Vox Creative.
0:09.7	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives when the Taliban
0:14.4	took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:17.9	The UK government pled to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year, only
0:24.0	22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:28.5	So what happened?
0:29.5	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:33.5	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:40.7	Listeners, hey Sam here, before we begin this episode, let me say something.
0:46.3	And I want you all to listen real, real good.
0:50.2	If you have not watched the third episode of season four of succession, the episode
0:55.5	where a really, really big thing happens.
0:58.5	Can't play in this episode right now.
1:00.1	Just stop playing the episode.
1:01.1	I mean it.
1:02.4	If you're not caught up, turn this off right now.
1:05.6	Do not keep listening and then send me a nasty gram over a spoiler.
1:11.2	This is your spoiler alert right here.
1:15.0	You have been warned, okay?
1:17.7	With that, let's begin, shall we?
1:23.8	Hey, this is Into it from Vulture, I'm Sam Sanders.
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