Deep Water

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Film Reviews,, Tv & Film

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On this week’s Spoiler Specials, Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens is joined by Slate’s Jeffrey Bloomer and Dan Kois to spoil Deep Water.

The film opens with marital unease between Vic Van Allen (Ben Affleck) and his wife Melinda (Ana de Armas). Melinda has constant flirtations that Vic moodily tolerates … until he doesn’t.

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

Email us at spoilers@slate.com.

Podcast production by Cleo Levin

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:03.7	I want to tell you my secret now.
0:06.4	I see dead people.
0:09.5	Silent green is people.
0:13.3	No, I am the father.
0:16.7	Oh, Rushburn.
0:22.8	What's in the box? What's in the box?
0:26.2	You maniac!
0:28.2	You blow it up!
0:30.9	Damn you all the hell! Hello, I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic.
0:33.2	Here with another Slate, spoiler special.
0:35.0	We are here today to spoil Deepwater, the new erotic
0:37.6	thriller from British director Adrian Lynn. He of unfaithful. Give me some titles, guys. Flash
0:43.5	Dance, Fatal Attraction. Nine and a half weeks. Nine and a half weeks, right, the erotic thriller
0:48.6	that started at all. I am joined today by Slate Features Director Jeffrey Blumer. Hey, Jeff.
0:54.0	Hi, Dana. And also from Washington, D.C., by Slate's senior writer Dan Coice. Hello, Dan. Hello, everyone. So, as I usually do, before we get to digging into the details of Deepwater's plot, I just want to ask what both of you thought of it. I noticed going on Rotten Tomatoes that I'm an outlier here. I gave this
1:11.0	movie what Rotten Tomatoes calls a fresh review, although to some degree I loved it because of its
1:15.7	delicious badness, but its general rating on Rotten Tomatoes right now is 36%, which is not very
1:22.6	promising. So I'm really curious, both of you, Jeff and Dan, what did you think of Deepwater
1:27.0	overall? Dan, I'll start with did you think of Deepwater overall?
1:28.4	Dan, I'll start with you.
1:36.4	I believe Deepwater is a fantastic movie to watch with a person you hate while drunk.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.