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The following podcast contains explicit language.

I want to tell you my secret now. I see dead people.

Silent green is people.

He's my sister and my daughter.

Rosebud.

What's in the box?

And like that, he's gone.

Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special.

I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and today we will be spoiling Annihilation, the second film from Alex Garland, who was the director of ex Machina a couple of years ago.

Joining me in the Slate studio is Marissa Martinelli, a browbeat writer, an editorial assistant at Slate.

Hey, Marissa.

Hello, Dana.

And joining us from the Bay Area by phone is Ingu Kang, who is a culture and tech writer for Slate.

Hi, Inku.

Hello, hello, hello.

So I'm having both of you in because you've both written on Annihation, which I haven't. Inku, you reviewed it for Slate and don't want to get to your review and talk about that. And Marissa, you've written obsessively on a weird sound in the soundtrack of Annihilation and interviewed the composer of the score about the weird sound, and we will get to that as well. But before we start spoiling, let me just go around and ask just sort of your basic thumbs up, thumbs down reaction. Would you send your friends to see Annihilation? Oh, man, I really liked Annihilation. I'm not

sure if I would send my friends without some caveats beforehand. Depends on the friend.

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