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Spoiler or no spoiler? It’s a tangled etiquette

Knowing how a story ends can sometimes increase our enjoyment of it – but not for everyone

We shouldn't kill the suspense, but spoilers apparently do not ruin the enjoyment of stories, they actually increase it, says the writer.

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Jemima Kelly

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I couldn’t go into the office last Tuesday. The finale of what I consider to be

the greatest TV show of the last decade, Succession

, had aired the previous day, and I hadn’t yet watched it. The risk of hearing spoilers from my colleagues was unacceptably high.

So I embarked on a comprehensive spoiler-shielding programme: I stayed at home, muted a particularly telly-focused WhatsApp group, and avoided social media. Or I tried to, anyway.

Spoiler or no spoiler? It’s a tangled etiquette

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