Contagion

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Film Reviews,, Tv & Film

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate Senior Editor Sam Adams is joined by Slate Staff Writer Rebecca Onion to spoil Contagion, Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 pandemic movie. Not dissimilar to the coronavirus, the fictional virus, MEV-1, started off transferring from infected animals to humans. MEV-1 infected Gwyneth Paltrow’s character on a work trip. Then she traveled back to the Midwest, spreading the virus. Can the institutions in charge find a vaccine before the virus decimates society?

You can read Rebecca Onion’s piece about the lessons to take from Contagion here.

You can read Sam Adams’ interview with the screenwriter here.

Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.

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0:00.0	You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:03.3	Hello, Slate Podcast listeners.
0:05.3	I'm here to remind you to take the Slate Survey.
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0:15.3	You can find it at slate.com slash survey.
0:19.7	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:23.3	I want to tell you my secret now.
0:26.1	I see dead people.
0:29.3	Silent green is people.
0:32.9	No, I am the father.
0:36.6	Oh, Rushburn. What? I am the father.
0:42.7	What's in the box?
0:51.0	You maniac! You blow it up! Damn you all the hell!
0:54.4	Hello and welcome to Slate Spoiler Special.
0:58.9	I'm Sam Adams, a senior editor at Slate, and I'm joined today by staff writer Rebecca Onion.
1:03.7	Normally, we spoil new releases, but since there are no new releases this week, we are spoiling a movie from 2011 that's been climbing the iTunes rental chart.
1:08.0	Contagion.
1:08.8	Steven Soderberg's pandemic movie has been receiving a lot of attention
1:11.6	because of the movie's parallels to the coronavirus outbreak. It is something that I had been
1:15.9	putting off watching for a while and then sort of forced myself to watch last week. You did as well.
1:20.9	Hello. Hello. I'm excited to talk about this, I think, question mark.
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