The Witcher
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 45 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, Sam Adams is joined by Benjamin Frisch, Rachelle Hampton and Daniel Schroeder to discuss The Witcher, Netflix’s popular new show about a monster hunter. This show isn’t the first adaptation from Andrzej Sapkowski’s work; video games based on The Witcher have been released starting in 2007. Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) is a monster hunter with supernatural powers. But, what exactly is a witcher? How will the Law of Surprise bring people together? Will Geralt ever find the girl in the forest who he is destined to find? And what kind of transformation comes at the cost of removing one’s womb?
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Hosts
Sam Adams is a Slate senior editor and the editor of Slate’s culture blog, Brow Beat.
Benjamin Frisch is the producer of Slate's Culture Gabfest and the author of the graphic novel The Fun Family.
Rachelle Hampton is a Slate editorial assistant.
Daniel Schroeder is a Slate podcast producer and freelance writer.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:06.4 | I see dead people. |
| 0:09.4 | Silent green is people. |
| 0:13.3 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:16.9 | Oh, gosh, but... What's in the box? What's in the box? |
| 0:25.0 | You minute! |
| 0:26.9 | You blew it up! |
| 0:28.7 | Damn, you all the hell! |
| 0:32.9 | Hello, and welcome to today's spoiler special. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm Sam Adams, the senior editor at Slate and the editor of Slatech Culture Blog, Brabete, and today I'm in Philadelphia, but I'm joined by a studio full of The Witcher enthusiasts in New York. We have Benjamin Frisch, the producer of Dakota Ring. |
| 0:47.4 | Hi. |
| 0:47.8 | Editorial assistant Rachel Hampton and Daniel Schrader, who produces The Gist. Hey. Welcome everyone. |
| 0:53.6 | Today we're doing the Netflix series, The Witcher. |
| 0:56.3 | Ordinarily, this is the part where I give a summary of what the thing is about. |
| 1:00.4 | Basically, in this case, Henry Cavill has a sword and kills things. |
| 1:05.4 | Two swords. |
| 1:06.3 | Excuse me. |
| 1:07.2 | He has two swords. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, he has two swords. |
| 1:10.4 | He has some sort of magic spell casting abilities. |
| 1:14.8 | He has one sword for monsters, and he has one sword for humans. |
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