Pop Culture Happy Hour

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Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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Trying to keep up with the latest in pop culture? We’ve got you covered. The Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast helps you find the best new binge-worthy tv shows, movies, music, and videogames.<br><br>Join hosts Linda Holmes, Aisha Harris, Stephen Thompson, and Glen Weldon four episodes a week - plus a rotating cast of guest pop culture enthusiasts. It’s your fix for reviews, recommendations, and recaps of the pop culture everyone is talking about. From lowbrow reality TV to Oscar-winning movies to the stuff in between, we take it all with a shot of cheer. On the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, we watch everything so that you never miss anything.<br><br><em> Support public media by joining NPR+ at </em><a href="http://plus.npr.org/"target="_blank" ><em>plus.npr.org</em></a><em>. You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening for Pop Culture Happy Hour.</em>

Episodes

Carrie

The new series <em>Carrie</em> updates the Stephen King book for the digital age, and plays with what we think we know in some surprising ways. Streaming on Prime Video, it follows a young Carrie who ...
Oct 12, 202618m

The Social Reckoning and What’s Making Us Happy

Don’t call it a sequel: <em>The Social Reckoning</em> is a companion piece to <em>The Social Network</em>. While the first movie chronicled the invention of Facebook, this one focuses on where Faceboo...
Oct 9, 202626m

East of Eden

A new series on Netflix is taking a bold crack at the American classic. Maybe you read John Steinbeck’s <em>East of Eden</em><strong> </strong>in school. Or maybe you’ve seen the very loosely-adapted ...
Oct 7, 202622m

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

Mahershala Ali’s new movie isn’t the <em>Blade </em>reboot, but it’s still worth your time. <em>Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother </em>follows a newly widowed hitman who wants out of the game. He's ...
Oct 6, 202625m

Verity

<em>Verity </em>stars Dakota Johnson as a struggling novelist who gets an unusual assignment. She's been asked to ghostwrite the final books by a superstar writer, played by Anne Hathaway. It’s an ero...
Oct 5, 202623m

Digger and What’s Making Us Happy

<em>Digger </em>is a loud, surprising, audacious, and sure-to-be-polarizing entry in this year’s Oscars race. The film stars Tom Cruise as a powerful oil baron who’s helped unleash an existential thre...
Oct 2, 202622m

A Different World

The TV series<strong> </strong><em>A Different World</em> has loomed large in the culture since ending in the ‘90s, and now school is back in session in a new sequel series on Netflix. The show welcom...
Sep 30, 202628m

Forgotten Island

<em>Forgotten Island</em> is a wonderful new animated feature from the team that brought you <em>Kung Fu Panda 2</em> and <em>Puss In Boots: The Last Wish</em>. We’re introduced to childhood friends J...
Sep 29, 202614m

The Love Hypothesis

<em>The Love Hypothesis </em>brings the beloved trope of fake dating to the world of science and academia – but does it bring a fresh take to the bestselling book by Ali Hazelwood? The new Prime Video...
Sep 28, 202626m

Primetime and What's Making Us Happy

The new docudrama <em>Primetime </em>is a weird and highly fictionalized account of the meteoric rise of <em>To Catch a Predato</em>r. Robert Pattinson plays host Chris Hansen, who is struggling to ge...
Sep 25, 202623m

Jay-Z

Jay-Z has been everywhere lately. It’s been 30 years since his acclaimed debut <em>Reasonable Doubt</em>, and he celebrated with a series of concerts at Yankee Stadium. And now there’s the HBO docuser...
Sep 24, 202626m

Fall Guide

This fall, there’s a <em>lot </em>of movies and TV on tap for you to see. And we're as excited for all of it to arrive as you are. So we’ve got a guide to what’s worth keeping on your radar, including...
Sep 23, 202632m

Great documentaries you don’t want to miss

We talk a lot about movies and TV shows, but new documentary films sometimes can sometimes get lost in the shuffle. So today we’re highlighting some new documentaries that are worth your time and you ...
Sep 21, 202622m

Resident Evil and What's Making Us Happy

The new <em>Resident Evil</em> movie is wild, scary, inventive, fast-paced, and <em>funny</em>. That’s because the videogame-turned-film franchise got a reboot courtesy of director Zach Cregger (<em>W...
Sep 18, 202621m

Last Seen

The new Apple TV series <em>Last Seen</em> is a compelling thriller. It stars Patrick Brammall (<em>Colin from Accounts) </em>as an emergency dispatcher named who gets a call one night from a girl he ...
Sep 17, 202617m

Crew Girl

The Netflix TV show <em>Crew Girl</em> follows in the footsteps of successful coming-of-age dramas like <em>Sterling Point </em>and <em>The Summer I Turned Pretty</em>. It follows Teagan, an ambitious...
Sep 16, 202617m

2026 Emmys recap

This year’s Emmys were a big night for shows we really love, including <em>Widow’s Bay</em>, <em>The Pitt </em>and <em>Pluribus.</em> Actors Jean Smart and Matthew Rhys picked up wins, and Rhys made s...
Sep 15, 202624m

Practical Magic 2 and What’s Making Us Happy

In <em>Practical Magic 2,</em> Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return as witch sisters doomed by a family curse that means any man they love will die. They embark on a new chapter where the next gene...
Sep 11, 202629m

Unapologetically basic TV and movies that we love

When you hear the words “pumpkin spice latte,” maybe you think of fall. But maybe you just think about the pleasures of something unapologetically basic. The same can be said for movies and TV. Today,...
Sep 10, 202633m

Watch this: Filipiñana

Are you tired of the same eat-the-rich narratives churned out by Hollywood? There is a great new film <em>Filipiñana</em> offering a new take about the inner-workings of a country club in the Philippi...
Sep 8, 202618m