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Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate's Spoiler Specials: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2009

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Slate's Dana Stevens and Dan Kois discuss Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. WARNING: This podcast is meant to be heard AFTER you've seen the movie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Dana Stevens Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with the Slate Spoiler Special

0:03.6

podcast on Harry Potter and the Halfblood Prince, the new and anti-ante-penultimate Harry Potter

0:09.5

film. I'm here with Dan Koyce. Hi, Dan.

0:11.9

Hi, Dana.

0:12.7

Who we may now say is the Washington Post film critic.

0:16.2

Is a Washington Post film critic, and a contributor to the New York Magazine Culture Blog, The Vulture.

0:22.5

Correct.

0:23.1

Or just Vulture, I guess, right?

0:24.4

You don't do the article.

0:25.7

They'll edit this out later, but yeah.

0:28.6

Okay.

0:31.1

So we're coming into this totally fresh.

0:33.2

I want you here in the studio with me, actually, which is very nice to see you, by the way.

0:36.8

It's fun not to just be in Washington talking to you over an ISDM line.

0:39.6

Right, with a video hookup.

0:41.7

But I wanted you here because you're the resident Potter file of Slate, and I think you've

0:45.3

spoiled all the previous Harry Potter movies that have...

0:47.9

I have, and when the last Harry Potter book came out, I ran a week-long spoiler special

0:52.8

book club on the last Harry Potter book as out. I ran a week-long spoiler special book club on the last Harry Potter book as well.

0:56.4

So you've done your share of Harry Potter spoiling? I've marked my territory in the Harry

1:00.1

Potter world at Slate. Well, in that case, I want you to take it away. I mean, I saw from your

1:04.0

review that you and I somewhat have opposite takes on the movie. I mean, for one thing, you liked it

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