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Slate Culture

Spoilers: Us

Slate Culture

Slate Podcasts

Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on Spoiler Specials, Dana Stevens and Vanity Fair film critic, K Austin Collins discuss Us. They discuss why we should embrace the films imperfections, how this movie wants to be unpacked, and Lupita Nyong’o’s masterful performance. Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Engineered by Merritt Jacob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:29.4

I want to tell you my secret now. I see dead people.

0:35.0

Silent British people!

0:38.0

These my sister and daughter.

0:44.0

Rosebird.

0:47.0

What's in the box?

0:50.0

Hi, I'm Dana Stevens and this is a Slate spoiler special podcast on us the new horror film from writer director Jordan Peel

0:56.3

And joining me here in the slate studio is K Austin Collins the critic for Vanity Fair.

1:00.9

Hey Kim. Hey good morning. Hey, good morning.

1:03.0

Yeah, okay, so we have a lot to unpack with this movie.

1:06.6

It's only just under two hours long.

1:09.2

It's not an incredibly long running time, but it's a very stuffed, some would say, overstuffed movie full of ideas,

1:15.1

full of plot twists, full of time frames

1:18.1

and kind of conceptual jumps.

1:21.1

So I guess we'll just start at the top,

1:22.4

but I think we're gonna have to make some analytical detours as we go along.

1:26.0

But as usual, I just want to just quickly get a response, yes or no, send people or not.

1:31.0

Did you like this movie?

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