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Slate's Spoiler Specials

Little Women

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 60 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, Dana Stevens and Rachel Syme discuss Little Women. Arriving just in time for Christmas, Greta Gerwig plays with the March sisters’ timeline while staying true to Amy, Jo, Beth and Meg’s adventures. Will they find their own ways? Will Jo (Saoirse Ronan) end up with Laurie (Timothée Chalamet)? What comes of Jo’s writing?  You can read Dana Stevens’ review here.  You can also check out past Spoiler Specials, and you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Note: As the title indicates, spoilers galore. Email us at [email protected]. Hosts Dana Stevens is Slate’s movie critic. Rachel Syme is a writer in Brooklyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.0

Hi, this is Dana Stevens here with another Slate, spoiler special podcast. This week we're talking about Little Women, the Greta Gerwig adaptation of the classic Louisa May Alcott novel, which is not being released until Christmas

1:10.8

Day in good holiday movie style. This is actually more of a Christmas movie than I realized

1:15.9

going in. It opens on a Christmas scene. Yes, I was just thinking that this movie belongs in a

1:23.7

canon I've invented of movies called Figgy pudding movies, which is like where everything is

1:29.4

very twinkly and cozy and snowy and you sort of stand outside the window panes of this movie and you

1:36.1

want to come in. It just looks really warm and inviting. Yeah, it has that kind of dollhouse

1:40.8

factor and kind of invites you in too. I mean, I think it's a movie that isn't just a beautiful object that you look at, but that does have a kind of dollhouse factor and kind of invites you in too. I mean, I think it's a movie that

1:45.1

that isn't just a beautiful object that you look at, but that does have a kind of intimacy that

1:48.8

draws the viewer in. And we can get into that. I mean, that has also to do with the way that

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