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What's in the box? Hello and welcome to another Slate Spoiler Special.

I'm Sam Adams, the senior editor at Slate.

And today I am joined in Toronto by Adam Naiman, who's the author of Showgirls.

It Doesn't Suck and a new book on the Overe of the Coen Brothers entitled,

This book really ties the films together. Unfortunately, we are not talking about show girls today,

but we do have Adam on to talk about The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which is the new movie

from Joel and Ethan Cohen. As always in spoiler specials, we're going to be discussing the

entire plot in detail.

So if you haven't seen the film, that hate spoilers, beware. If you have seen the film or if you like spoilers, you have come to the right place. Adam, thank you very much for joining me. Oh, thank you for having me, son. All right. So this is, uh, sometimes we have to, I put a lot of thought into like how to sort of structure those spoiler specials.

In this case, it's a six-part anthology.

So I think the most obvious way to go through it is just to talk about the parts individually and then cross over as we see fit.

Because there's, we're going to be talking about a lot.

There's a lot of

interplay between these um different the six different stories in this movie and that's something that

i think you're very well you may be uniquely qualified to talk about because as you talk about in the

book i mean the coens are filmmakers who really circle around a lot of sort of similar themes and images

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