The Suicide Squad
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail.
This week, Slate staff writer Karen Han is joined by Slate’s senior editor Sam Adams to spoil James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, a soft reboot of the original 2016 Suicide Squad.
What happens when the US government brings together a few of the world’s most dangerous supervillains to save the day? You get chaos, blood, gore and The Suicide Squad.
Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.
Email us at spoilers@slate.com.
Podcast production by Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Karen Han is a staff writer at Slate. You can read her review here.
Sam Adams is a senior editor at Slate and editor of Slate’s culture blog, Brow Beat.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.3 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:07.0 | I see this. |
| 0:10.2 | Silent Freed is paper. |
| 0:14.0 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh, gosh, but... What's in the box? What's in the box? |
| 0:25.6 | You blew it up. |
| 0:29.4 | Damn you all the hell. |
| 0:33.5 | Hello and welcome to Slate's spoiler specials. |
| 0:36.7 | I'm Karen Hahn, staff writer at Slate, and I'm joined by Sam Adams Senior Editor at Slate. Welcome, Sam. |
| 0:42.8 | Thank you, Karen. Today we are spoiling The Suicide Squad, the soft reboot slash standalone sequel to the 2016 film Suicide Squad, which is differentiated by the fact that it does not have the in the title. |
| 0:57.2 | Sam, I don't think we've really talked about this. |
| 1:00.1 | Did you watch the 2016 Suicide Squad? |
| 1:02.6 | I did, unfortunately. |
| 1:04.9 | It's a very, very bad movie. |
| 1:06.5 | But yeah, I saw it. |
| 1:07.1 | It's not really memorable. |
| 1:08.9 | No, it's really not. |
| 1:10.1 | But it is really bad and unmemorable. And it was like kind of a mess. You can tell that they kind of like reshot the whole second act after they kind of got rid of the director and stuff. And yet it made like a gazillion dollars. And so that necessitated making another one or the same one again or however it is you want to |
| 1:29.6 | characterize this thing. Were you excited for this one? Where were your expectations for this? |
| 1:34.3 | I mean, I was excited. And I think the reasons for that are basically two words, which are James Gunn, |
| 1:41.6 | who is the writer-director of this movie. There are two things to know about |
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