The following podcast contains explicit language.

I want to tell you my secret now.

I see dead people.

Silent breathing people.

He's my sister and my daughter.

Rosberg.

What's in the box? And like that, he's gone.

Hello, and welcome to another Slate spoiler special podcast.

I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic, and this week we will be spoiling Guillermo

D'Oro's new film, The Shape of Water, with Slate Senior Editor and Brow Beat correspondent Sam Adams.

Hello.

Hello.

Yes, I'm glad to hear to talk with me about Shape of Water.

I get, as usual, going to get a very quick thumbnail reaction,

and then I'll give you mine.

Yeah, or nay.

Yes, and I am, as usual, I mean, to give a slightly complicated,

quick reaction. But I like this movie. I'm very, like, sympathetic to what it's trying to do.

I don't think it pulls a lot of it off. Yeah. I mean, I guess I should maybe proceed my

reaction to it by saying I was really looking forward to it and maybe built up my expectations

too high. And I came in here wanting to make some claim about this is a return to Pan's

Labyrinth, which is to me, Guillermo del Toro's best movie still, because of blank. And then I

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