Happiest Season
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2020
⏱️ 50 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, Christina Cauterucci and June Thomas discuss Happiest Season, a charming new Christmas rom-com from writer-director Clea DuVall that premiered on Hulu on Nov. 25. Harper Caldwell (Mackenzie Davis) invites her girlfriend, Abby (Kristen Stewart) home for Christmas. Right before they arrive, Harper shares that the people in her hometown, or even in her family, don’t know that she’s gay. And since her father is running for mayor, the couple has to keep their relationship a secret. How will Abby navigate the holiday season while hiding her authentic self? What impact will the holiday weekend have on the lovebirds and their relationship?
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Podcast Production by Jasmine Ellis.
Hosts
Christina Cauterucci is a Slate staff writer and co-host of the Outward podcast.
June Thomas is senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast network and co-host of the Working podcast.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:07.2 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:10.0 | I see dead people. |
| 0:13.0 | Silent green is people! |
| 0:16.9 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:20.3 | Oh, gosh, but... |
| 0:23.6 | What's in the box? |
| 0:28.4 | You maniac! |
| 0:30.6 | You blew it up! |
| 0:32.3 | Damn, you all the hell! |
| 0:36.9 | Hello, and welcome to Slate's spoiler specials. Today we are spoiling happiest season, a charming, |
| 0:46.1 | I thought, new Christmas rom-com from writer-director Clea Duval, also co-written by Mary Holland. |
| 0:53.4 | It premiered on Hulu on November 25th. I'm Christina |
| 0:57.1 | Kaudrucci, a staff writer at Slate and host of Slate's LGBTQ podcast Outward. And joining me is |
| 1:04.6 | June Thomas, senior managing producer of the Slate Podcast Network. Hi, June. Hey, I'm also one of the |
| 1:10.8 | hosts of Working Slate's podcast about Hi, June. Hey, I'm also one of the hosts of working |
| 1:11.6 | Slate's podcast about how creative people get their work then. I love that show. So this is an all-gay |
| 1:17.9 | recap of a super gay movie. I couldn't be happier to be here. And I hope you're wearing |
| 1:23.9 | comfortable shoes, June, because we are tiptoeing around the shards of a shattered glass ceiling. |
| 1:32.4 | Happiest season is the first studio-backed holiday rom-com about a queer couple. |
| 1:37.8 | A lot of qualifiers in that sentence, but it still feels pretty groundbreaking to me a fan of holiday movies and rom-coms who has grown |
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