The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hi, this is Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, here with a spoiler special podcast on 50 Shades of Grey, an adaptation of the bestselling, what would we call it, a BDSM porn romance?

Sure.

A ladies' erotica thriller?

Precisely.

You guys have to tell me what we call it, especially because I haven't read the book.

So here's who we have to talk about 50 Shades today.

Amanda Hess, who is a staff writer at Slate.

Hi, Amanda.

Hi.

And you just posted a very funny and I think quite provocative piece on the 50 Shades movie.

And Dan Cois from Washington, Slate's Culture Editor.

Hi, Dan.

Hello. And you have been brought in for several reasons. Well, for one thing, you insisted. You really wanted to talk about this movie. And you have read the book, which Amanda has too, but so long ago she doesn't really remember it. And I have not read the book.

Yeah, I think I blocked it out. It's so bad. I have pretty vivid memories of the feelings that made me feel. And you did an audio book club on the book, too, which is my only experience of the book now, having listened to that.

And the quotes that you read from it all sounded fantabulous.

Okay, so let's go around quickly and just give a quick reaction to the movie, and then we can get into some spoiling.

Amanda, yes, no, would you send a friend to this movie?

A thousand times, yes.

Run, do not walk. I loved it.

And Dan, what about you? I guess it depends on how I feel about the friend.

Like, do you want to bring them into your private, flogging, cinematic red room?

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