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The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello, and welcome to another Slate Spoiler Special. I'm Susan Matthews, Slate Science Editor, and today we'll be spoiling Blue Planet 2.

Blue Planet 2 obviously is not a traditional plot-driven show that you can spoil traditionally, so I am joined in the studio with a delightful rotating cast of our science writers

and thinkers and editors. And we are going to have kind of an unconventional conversation

about Blue Planet 2, what happened, what we thought about it, the octopus, et cetera, and so on.

Here to talk with me about the series is Dan Engber, who is light science columnist.

Hi, Dan.

Hello.

Writer and host of the podcast Working, Jacob.

Hello, Jacob.

Hello, it's me.

And future tense editor, Kirstenberg.

Hi, Kirsten.

Hello.

Later in the show, we'll also be joined by science intern Alex Barash to talk about how the series was received in the UK and the US.

So, let's just open it up. I wanted to ask all of you actually a little bit about your initial relationship with Blue Planet and the Planet Earth series.

I think that for me personally, this is the first time that I have ever sat down and intentionally watched an entire Blue Planet series from start to finish and not kind of just in a kind of stoner college way of let's put on planet Earth for several hours.

So that has been a totally different experience for me personally.

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