I'm Jonathan Braylock, I'm Dra. Milligan, and I'm James III. And we're those of Black

MacGene Jump in Hollywood. It's a comedic podcast that reviews films with leading actors

of color and analyze them in the context of race and Hollywood's diversity issues.

Yeah. Listen to new episodes on Mondays. Find us wherever you get your podcasts. I don't

care where you get them. I just want you to listen. Don't threaten the people we need

them to listen. Okay. Okay. Okay. Sorry, guys. Listen. Listen to us. Yeah. Yeah. Put

on a happy voice.

What's in the box? Hello and welcome to Slate Spoiler Specials. I'm Sam Adams, the

senior editor at Slate. And today I'm joined by Slate's features director, Jeffrey

Blumer. Welcome, Jeff. Hi, Sam. I believe this is the first time we've been in the same

room since the pandemic began. And now it's very exciting. You're all going to hear

some serious chemistry here. It's very exciting. So today we are spoiling the movie Halloween

Ends, which is the, I guess the final part of David Gordon Green's Halloween reboot

trilogy. There are a lot of nouns to apply to that. This finds us sort of back in the groove

with Laurie Strode, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. And the shape, as Michael Myers is often known,

but let's start off, Jeff, with what you thought of the end. So you know that I'm a long

suffering Halloween fan. I'm not quite like going to Michael Myers festivals and like, you

know, doing Reddit cosplay and stuff. But I have seen all 14 movies I believe there are now,

some of them more times than I carried with men on the record. And I kind of like even I at

this point have some franchise fatigue because like the last movie literally they were just

introducing new characters every 20 minutes in order for them to be killed off 10 minutes later.

And there was just so listless. And so going into this movie, I really did not, I didn't know what

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