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Slate's Spoiler Specials

Booksmart

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on Spoiler Specials, Dana Stevens, Jeffrey Bloomer and Christina Cauterucci spoil Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut Booksmart. Does the movie push to teen comedy genre forward? Is the high school depicted in the film realistic? How accurate are the queer characters in the film? Listen to them discuss! Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Engineering by Merritt Jacob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.4

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0:45.6

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0:47.8

What's in the box?

0:49.8

Hi, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, here with a Slate spoiler special podcast on BookSmart,

0:55.1

the new comedy and directorial debut, feature directorial debut of Olivia Wilde. Speaking with me

1:01.0

here in the Slate studio in New York is Jeffrey Blumer, a senior editor at Slate. Hey, Jeff. Hi, Dana.

1:06.1

And from D.C. we have Christina Cauterucci, a staff writer at Slate. Hi, Christina. Hi, guys. So, okay,

1:13.0

book smart. There's lots to say, I'm going to do my usual thing and just go around the table

1:16.4

and have you each give a quick thumbnail reaction so people know whether to frame your response

1:21.0

to the whole movie as, you know, see it or don't see it. So I'll start with you, Jeffrey.

1:25.2

I thought it was quite good.

1:28.2

And I say that as sort of a qualified way of...

1:31.3

I had heard quite a bit about this movie, and I'm a giant sucker for coming-of-age movies in general,

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