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
We're talking songs of the (Brat) summer
Trying to declare the "official" song of the summer isn't a new sport. But this year feels like the first in a while where the field's been so crowded from the domination of pop girls like Charli XCX…
00:26:57 |
Tue 30 Jul 2024
Deadpool & Wolverine and what's making us happy
In the highly meta Deadpool & Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman finally meet up for their own big movie. Deadpool is still smarmy, Wolverine is still tragic, and they have to get together to …
00:23:43 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
In The Decameron, the Black Death makes for black comedy
In Netflix's weirdly compelling dark comedy The Decameron, the bubonic plague is ravaging Florence in 1348. A group of rich nobles and their servants decide to retreat to a picturesque villa in the c…
00:17:34 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
Three great karaoke songs
What makes a good karaoke song? In this encore episode, we're suggesting three great songs to sing at karaoke night.
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00:09:55 |
Tue 23 Jul 2024
Sunny is a robot buddy comedy about loss
In the new Apple TV+ series Sunny, Rashida Jones stars as a woman living in Kyoto, whose husband and young son go missing in a plane crash. To help console her, her husband's electronics company give…
00:14:55 |
Mon 22 Jul 2024
Twisters and what's making us happy
Twister was one of the biggest disaster movies of the '90s. Now, it's finally got a sequel — one with an all-new cast, state-of-the-art effects, and a whole lot of tornadoes. The new film stars Glen …
00:27:04 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
We unpack the 2024 Emmy nominations
The nominations the Emmy Awards were just announced, and it was a good day for The Bear, which set a new record in the comedy category. And plenty of our favorites also got Emmy nods, including Mr. a…
00:25:29 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
Exploding Kittens is a simple card game turned wild cartoon
The best-selling card game Exploding Kittens has been adapted into a new Netflix animated series. It does plenty of its own world-building: God (Tom Ellis) and the devil (Sasheer Zamata) are sent to …
00:15:45 |
Tue 16 Jul 2024
Longlegs is a (satanic) panic
They're calling it the scariest movie of the year. The new horror film Longlegs follows FBI special agent Lee Harker (Mika Monroe) tracking a serial killer in the 1990s. If that sounds like familiar …
00:14:28 |
Mon 15 Jul 2024
Fly Me to the Moon and what's making us happy
The cheeky new romantic dramedy Fly Me to the Moon stars Scarlett Johansson as a NASA publicist at the height of the space race. She must stage a top-secret fake version of the moon landing as backup…
00:17:47 |
Fri 12 Jul 2024
Three great sports documentaries
Sports aren't just games. They're intertwined with epic stories about struggle, human behavior, historic greatness and grand emotions. In other words, sports make for great documentaries. And if you'…
00:09:34 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
Despicable Me 4 serves up 90 minutes of bankable mayhem
Despicable Me 4 is the latest film in an animation franchise that made household names of reformed supervillain Gru (Steve Carrell) and his army of nattering Minions. The franchise has grossed billio…
00:16:43 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
How we entertain and amuse ourselves on a road trip
It's summer, so we're talking all about road trips. Should you blast music that's familiar or unfamiliar? What makes for a good road trip audiobook? What are some road trip games we hate? Pop Culture…
00:11:54 |
Mon 08 Jul 2024
MaXXXine and what's making us happy
The new movie MaXXXine stars Mia Goth as an adult-film actress who gets her big break in Hollywood, only to be revisited by horrors from her past. Set in 1985 Los Angeles, it's the final film in dire…
00:20:49 |
Fri 05 Jul 2024
Bowen Yang thinks being present is overrated
The Pop Culture Happy Hour team is off today, so we're bringing you an episode of the NPR podcast Wild Card with Rachel Martin. This episode is an interview with Bowen Yang. He is the first Chinese A…
00:28:04 |
Thu 04 Jul 2024
Megan Thee Stallion sheds her skin on Megan
A lot has happened to rapper Megan Thee Stallion over the last couple of years including a highly publicized trial after being shot by a former friend, a messy breakup, and a feud with artist Nicki M…
00:19:59 |
Wed 03 Jul 2024
Yes, chef: The Bear has a lot going on in its third season
The Bear just returned for its third season and it's still one of the most stressful and most interesting shows on TV. Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) and Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) are launching their new fine…
00:24:48 |
Tue 02 Jul 2024
In A Quiet Place: Day One, Lupita Nyong'o makes silence golden
In the post-apocalyptic world of A Quiet Place, aliens kill anyone who makes a sound, forcing humans into a near-silent existence. The new movie A Quiet Place: Day One takes us back to the beginning,…
00:16:49 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
Kinds of Kindness and what's making us happy
Kinds of Kindness is a weird, dark, and bleak film. It's directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) and it re-teams him with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, along with Jesse Plemons. Each actor plays di…
00:23:25 |
Fri 28 Jun 2024
Lily Gladstone's Fancy Dance is a road trip worth taking
The new film Fancy Dance offers something all-too-rare on screen: contemporary Indigenous perspectives, front and center. Lily Gladstone plays a woman trying to keep it together under stressful circu…
00:17:18 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
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