Spoilers Aren’t Intrinsically Evil

“[H]ow much information is too much? What balance should a writer strike between safeguarding the joy of discovery for those who haven’t yet seen a play, and talking in such generalities that the writing becomes meaningless? … The answer is not clear-cut – it varies from show to show and writer to writer – but it raises [another] question: how much damage can a spoiler actually do?”