Pop Culture Happy Hour
Get obsessed with us. Four days a week, Pop Culture Happy Hour serves you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, books, videogames and more. Join arts journalists Linda Holmes, Glen Weldon, Stephen Thompson, and Aisha Harris - plus a rotating cast of guest pop culture aficionados. The Happy Hour team leaves room at the table for exploring a range of reactions and opinions on every bit of the pop universe. From lowbrow to highbrow to the stuff in between, they take it all with a shot of cheer.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 348
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Can't Sleep? Catch Some ZZZs With These Songs
There are songs you want to groove to, and songs you want to pump up to. But sometimes, you just want something for the come down at the end of a long day. If you're having trouble sleeping in silenc…
00:09:27 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
Heretic And What's Making Us Happy
In the claustrophobic thriller Heretic, two young Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) knock on the door of a charming man played by Hugh Grant. At first he seems genuinely interest…
00:21:59 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Tom Hanks Explains How To Deal With Attention
Today, we're bringing you an episode of How To Do Everything, a new NPR podcast from the team behind Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! On each episode, Mike Danforth and Ian Chillag offer practical advice f…
00:22:07 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
YouTube Rabbit Holes That Are Great Distractions
Elections can be pretty stressful. And it never hurts to have some emergency distractions on hand if you just need to shut down for a while. One of our favorites is YouTube: a place for the good, the…
00:24:10 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
The Penguin
In the HBO new series The Penguin, an unrecognizable Colin Farrell reprises his role as Oswald Cobb from The Batman. This time though, the caped crusader is nowhere to be found. Instead, we've got an…
00:25:36 |
Mon 04 Nov 2024
Tom Hanks' Movie Here And What's Making Us Happy
What if you spent eternity in one living room? That's the premise of Here, a new drama starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as a married couple whose lives unfold in that living room over the course o…
00:25:27 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
The Diplomat
In the Netflix drama The Diplomat, Keri Russell plays an ambassador who's thrust into an international incident with massive stakes. She's also sorting through a tumultuous marriage with her husband,…
00:16:12 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Conclave
The new movie Conclave is a fun and twisty political thriller. Ralph Fiennes plays a cardinal tasked to managing the secretive process in which the pope is replaced. The film offers plenty of scandal…
00:22:13 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Agatha All Along
Agatha All Along is a darkly funny new Marvel show on Disney Plus. It stars the selfish, sardonic and hilariously petty witch Agatha Harkness, played by the great and good Kathryn Hahn. When a myster…
00:19:40 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Venom: The Last Dance And What's Making Us Happy
In Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy returns for a third time as a sad-sack loser with an alien symbiotic life-form bonded to him. This time out, it's a buddy comedy and road movie, as the two are hun…
00:18:09 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
Woman Of The Hour
Netflix's Woman Of The Hour is not your conventional serial killer movie. It's based on the true story of a serial killer who appeared on The Dating Game in the 1970s. But it's also about the women w…
00:23:54 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
We Watch Classic Movies For The First Time
We've all been there. A major movie is mentioned, you shrug, sheepishly, and someone says, "I can't believe you've never seen that!" Today, we make a dent in our own lists of classic films we somehow…
00:24:51 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Anora
The new movie Anora is a dark rom-dramedy about an enterprising sex worker (Mikey Madison) who links up with a very rich and very immature young man (Mark Eydelshteyn). Their transactional encounter …
00:19:33 |
Mon 21 Oct 2024
Smile 2 And What's Making Us Happy
The horror movie Smile was a massive hit. Its flashy new sequel Smile 2 finds the franchise's terrifying entity infecting a new host: a pop star (Naomi Scott) who's about to head out on tour after ex…
00:22:53 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
We Live In Time
Two people meet, they fall in love, and someone gets sick. The new film We Live In Time tries to bring something new to that familiar story of the preciousness of life. Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfi…
00:18:27 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
The Pop Culture That Scared Us As Kids
A lot of us are about to have the experience of opening our front doors to find witches, goblins, ghosts, and Moo Deng standing on our porches. Why? Because it's almost Halloween. In this encore epis…
00:21:51 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
Disclaimer
In the powerful new Apple TV+ drama Disclaimer, Cate Blanchett plays a woman who's terrified after she's sent a novel that's based on a chapter of her past that she's desperate to keep secret. From O…
00:23:22 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Saturday Night And What's Making Us Happy
The new film Saturday Night attempts to capture the chaotic 90 minutes leading up to the very first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Untried producer Lorne Michaels (played by Gabriel LaBelle) and h…
00:17:29 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
Pop Culture Pumpkin Spice Lattes: Basic But We Love It
The word "basic" often gets thrown around to describe anything that's mainstream, popular, frictionless, or otherwise inoffensive. But sometimes basic stuff is just what we crave, whether it's a bing…
00:25:53 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
SNL, Late Night, And The Election
We're in a pretty critical election year. And in times like these, a lot of us are turning to political comedy to help make sense of (and fun of) the bizarre, ongoing news cycle. Today on the show, w…
00:22:56 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
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