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
Death Of A Unicorn And What's Making Us Happy
In Death of a Unicorn, Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star as dad and daughter facing off against some angry-as-hell horned beasts. Like so many creature features, it poses a direct question amid all the…
00:17:13 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
The Residence
In the new Netflix series The Residence, a dead body shows up in an awkward location: the White House. A sprawling list of suspects try to outsmart a brilliant detective played by Uzo Aduba. She's jo…
00:19:47 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Dope Thief
The Apple TV+ series Dope Thief is a great high-stakes crime thriller to stream now. It stars Brian Tyree Henry as a man running a risky con: Robbing small-time drug dealers by posing as a DEA agent.…
00:16:53 |
Tue 25 Mar 2025
Severance
In season two of Severance (streaming on Apple TV+), we got a blowout finale with answers to mysteries and even more layers of weirdness. The show stars Adam Scott as an employee of a sinister corpor…
00:21:21 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Snow White And What's Making Us Happy
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney's first fully animated feature film back in 1937. Now, it's getting a hi-tech "reimagining" complete with new songs, seven CGI-rendered dwarfs, and live-act…
00:24:16 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
Novocaine
In the gleefully grisly action movie Novocaine, Jack Quaid plays a sweet, nerdy guy who does not experience physical pain. He falls for a woman (Amber Midthunder) who's determined to get him to leave…
00:12:14 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Oscar-Winner Anora Is Now Streaming
Anora recently cleaned up at this year's Oscars, winning five awards, including best picture. Directed by Sean Baker, the movie follows an enterprising sex worker (Mikey Madison), who links up with a…
00:16:54 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Ayo Edebiri's New Movie Opus
In the new movie Opus, Ayo Edebiri plays a journalist who attends a press event at the compound of a reclusive pop star (John Malkovich) who'd been in hiding for decades. And then, things get weird a…
00:17:48 |
Mon 17 Mar 2025
Black Bag And What's Making Us Happy
The cool, stylish new Steven Soderbergh film Black Bag is about a group of British spies who discover there's a traitor in their midst. It stars Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett. He's a lie dete…
00:15:41 |
Fri 14 Mar 2025
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
You should watch the surreal new movie On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. It opens with a Zambian woman finding her uncle's body on the road. His death brings the family together from near and far, but also …
00:17:20 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
Lady Gaga's Mayhem
Lady Gaga has kept busy as a singer and actor, but it's been five years since she's released a full-blown pop album. Now, she's back with Mayhem, which has already produced three hits — including the…
00:21:56 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
Best Moments In Live TV
Live television is all about high risk, high reward. Whether it's musical performances, awards ceremonies, sports events, or comedy shows, there's an electric charge to watching something as it's hap…
00:20:30 |
Mon 10 Mar 2025
Mickey 17 And What's Making Us Happy
Mickey 17 is writer-director Bong Joon Ho's follow-up to the Oscar-winning film Parasite. In the sharply satirical sci-fi film, Robert Pattinson is a manual laborer on a spaceship who just keeps dyin…
00:24:39 |
Fri 07 Mar 2025
Terrible But Bingeable TV shows
What is it about a show that turns you into a bitter-ender, that keeps you dutifully watching every last episode, long after the train has jumped the tracks? Even when you know it's not good, but, fo…
00:23:07 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
Favorite SNL Musical Moments
Perhaps you've heard that Saturday Night Live is celebrating its 50th anniversary — they've mentioned it once or twice. From Lazy Sunday to Domingo to a ton of iconic musical performances, SNL's had …
00:18:55 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Our 2025 Oscars Recap
This year's Oscars was a big night for Sean Baker's Anora, including wins for best picture and director. The film's star Mikey Madison scored one of the night's few upsets, winning best actress. Adri…
00:25:33 |
Mon 03 Mar 2025
2025 Oscars Guide And What's Making Us Happy
This year's Oscar nominees include Wicked, The Substance, Emilia Perez, and Conclave. And we watched all the nominated movies so you don't have to. We're making some bold predictions for who will win…
00:51:30 |
Fri 28 Feb 2025
Paradise
In Hulu's twisty drama series Paradise, Sterling K. Brown plays a Secret Service agent caught up in a web of intrigue after the president of the United States (James Marsden) is assassinated, with no…
00:19:51 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Zero Day
The Netflix series Zero Day begins with a terrifying moment in which everything in the United States goes briefly offline. Thousands of people die, and even after everything is restored, a widespread…
00:14:58 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
Actors Who've Never Been Nominated For An Oscar, But Should Win
The standard line for awards season goes: "It's an honor just to be nominated." But when it comes to the Oscars, there's quite a long list of great performers who have never received this honor. Toda…
00:22:40 |
Mon 24 Feb 2025
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