Woman in the Window
Slate's Spoiler Specials
Slate Podcasts
3.6 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 51 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’s Brow Beat nights and weekends editor Matthew Dessem is joined by Slate books and culture columnist Laura Miller to spoil Woman in the Window, the new Netflix thriller based on the book by A. J. Finn.
Agoraphobic Dr. Anna Fox (Amy Adams) witnesses something she shouldn't while keeping tabs on the Russell family, the seemingly picture perfect clan that lives across the way. What could possibly go wrong?
Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.
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Podcast production by Morgan Flannery.
Hosts
Laura Miller is a books and culture columnist for Slate
Matthew Dessem is Slate’s Brow Beat’s nights and weekends editor
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:04.2 | I want to tell you my secret now. |
| 0:07.0 | I see death. |
| 0:10.0 | Silent freed is people. |
| 0:13.9 | No, I am the father. |
| 0:17.8 | Oh, Rush, right. |
| 0:23.2 | What's in the box? What's in the box? |
| 0:27.0 | You get it! |
| 0:28.8 | You blew it up! |
| 0:30.7 | Damn you all. |
| 0:34.8 | Hello, and welcome to Slate's spoiler specials. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm Matthew Dessam, |
| 0:37.2 | Brow Beats, Nights, and Weekends Editor at Slate, |
| 0:40.5 | and I'm joined by Laura Miller, Books and Culture columnist for Slate. Welcome, Laura. It's spoiler specials. I'm Matthew Dessum, browbeats, Nights, and Weekends Editor at Slate, and I'm joined by Laura Miller, Books and Culture Columnist for Slate. Welcome, Laura. |
| 0:56.1 | It's great to be here. Today, we're going to spoil The Woman in the Window, which is hitting Netflix this weekend. It is the newest movie from director Joe Wright, and it is an adaptation of the 2018 novel by A.J. Finn, which is a pseudonym for Dan Mallory, the author of the original. |
| 0:56.1 | So let's just get right into it.J. Finn, which is a pseudonym for Dan Mallory, the author of the original. |
| 0:59.1 | So let's just get right into it. What did you think of it, Laura? |
| 1:11.6 | Well, I have been really interested in the woman in the window as a kind of classic example of a particularly popular genre of thriller at present. |
| 1:18.1 | You know, I read the book when it was sort of at the peak of its bestsellerdom. |
| 1:26.1 | And it was interesting because it had a lot in common with a book by Paul Hawkins called The Girl on the Train, |
| 1:27.7 | which was another huge bestseller. |
| 1:34.3 | And these books are usually, you know, presented as sort of the daughters of gone girl, |
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