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
Thunderbolts*
Thunderbolts* is the latest Marvel movie and this one's a bit more fun than they've been lately. It stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour and emotionally broken super-people who've done …
00:22:20 |
Fri 02 May 2025
The TV Show I'd Like To Live In
If you wanted to escape reality and move to a fictional TV world, where would you live? Many are dystopian hellscapes and stressful workplaces. But other TV shows are a fun hang. Today, we're talking…
00:19:36 |
Thu 01 May 2025
Why We Love TV Weddings
Weddings make great fodder for TV writers. It's wedding season, so today we're breaking down the different types of TV weddings featured on Friends, General Hospital, A Different World, Grey's Anatom…
00:23:09 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
Étoile
Étoile is the latest series from Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. It's about the wacky goings-on between two prestigious but struggling ballet compan…
00:17:31 |
Mon 28 Apr 2025
Summer Guide
There was Barbenheimer Summer, then Brat Summer, what will this year bring? Maybe it's the season of actually good superhero movies, like The Fantastic Four and Superman. We've got a guide to the mov…
00:28:31 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
Conclave
Pope Francis' death not only led to an outpouring of remembrances. It also unleashed a new wave of memes from the Oscar-nominated movie Conclave. It tells a very fun and very fictional story of the s…
00:22:21 |
Wed 23 Apr 2025
The Wedding Banquet
The lovely rom-com The Wedding Banquet has a stellar all-star cast, including Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, and Bowen Yang. It's a twisty comedy of errors where proposals, hookups, and harsh word…
00:18:16 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
New TV Comedies You Don't Want To Miss
We cover a lot of TV on this show, but we don't get to everything. Today we're recommending some of our favorite recent TV comedies you don't want to miss, including #1 Happy Family USA, The Righteou…
00:14:52 |
Mon 21 Apr 2025
Sinners And What's Making Us Happy
The very scary movie Sinners finds Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers who open a 1930s juke joint. And opening night does not go as planned. Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, (Black Panther)…
00:25:36 |
Fri 18 Apr 2025
Your Friends And Neighbors
In the Apple TV+ series Your Friends and Neighbors, a very rich guy reacts to becoming a bit less rich by turning to a life of crime. Played by Jon Hamm, in full charming-but-morally-compromised mode…
00:15:01 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
Doctor Who
The last season of the venerable British science fiction series Doctor Who brought a lot of change. The Doctor is now played by Ncuti Gatwa, who is Black and openly queer. And it marked the return of…
00:25:39 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Warfare
The new film Warfare dispenses with a lot of things you've come to expect from Hollywood war movies. It's based on the memories of a platoon of Navy SEALS, and attempts to capture the chaos of one sp…
00:15:35 |
Mon 14 Apr 2025
Drop And What's Making Us Happy
In the bonkers thriller Drop, Meghann Fahy plays a woman whose first date goes off the rails when she starts getting increasingly alarming message drops from someone nearby. And this potentially roma…
00:19:49 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Pop Culture That Changed Our Minds
At a certain point, most of us settle into a groove with our pop culture consumption. We know what we love and what we're not into. But sometimes, all it takes is one great outlier or a willingness t…
00:22:38 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
Dying For Sex
The premise might be a tough sell: a young woman attempts to finally own her sexuality following a terminal diagnosis. In the new show Dying For Sex, Michelle Williams stars as a cancer patient confr…
00:22:13 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
The White Lotus
Season three of The White Lotus just wrapped up, but not before serving up a tropical buffet of sex, betrayal, violence, revenge, privilege, incest, drugs, death, and spirituality. We finally found o…
00:23:36 |
Mon 07 Apr 2025
A Minecraft Movie And What's Making Us Happy
Based on the best-selling game, A Minecraft Movie stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa in a goofy and sprawling adventure full of blocky animals and magical macguffins. Directed by Jared Hess (Nacho Libr…
00:20:09 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
Daredevil: Born Again
In Daredevil: Born Again, Charlie Cox returns as everyone's favorite blind-but-with-heightened-senses Marvel superhero. This time out, he hangs up his horns and throws himself into his career as a la…
00:15:41 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Survival Of The Thickest
The delightful Netflix series Survival of the Thickest is about an up-and-coming stylist whose professional and personal ambitions go sideways when she finds herself newly single. With the help of he…
00:17:10 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
The Studio
In the very funny new satire The Studio, Seth Rogen plays a Hollywood studio head desperately trying to do a job he's afraid of failing at every single day. The Apple TV+ series features comedy MVPs …
00:22:00 |
Mon 31 Mar 2025
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