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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

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12:16

Great 2022 Movies You May Have Missed

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2023/01/04

We talk about a lot of movies on Pop Culture Happy Hour, but we definitely don't talk about all of them. All kinds of films fall through the cracks for all kinds of reasons, but we're here to give them their moments to shine. Today, we're recommending three movies from 2022 that we loved and think you should see.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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19:45

South Side

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2023/01/03

On the HBO Max sitcom South Side, the everyday absurdities of living in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood make for hilarious fodder. The show follows an eclectic bunch that includes employees at a rent-to-own shop and a pair of bickering cops as they embark on adventures around the city. Diallo Riddle, Bashir Salahuddin, and Sultan Salahuddin created and co-star in the series.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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Comedian Josh Gondelman

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2023/01/02

The Pop Culture Happy Hour team is off today, so we're bringing you an excerpt of the podcast Bullseye with Jesse Thorn. Normally, when you tune into an episode of Bullseye, you'll hear interviews with pop culture creators like David Letterman, Sudan Archives, or Weird Al. But once a year, the show breaks format. The team at Bullseye listens through every stand-up comedy album from the year past to bring you the best of the best. Here's an excerpt from 2022's Bullseye Stand-Up Comedy Spectacular,

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25:59

2023 Pop Culture Resolutions And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/30

A lot of people make resolutions in January, and we are no different. Today, we put our stakes in the ground and make our 2023 pop culture resolutions. We also check in on what we resolved to do in 2022, and whether we did it perfectly, imperfectly, or perhaps not at all.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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23:09

2023 Pop Culture Predictions

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/29

It's that time of year again, time for hopes and fears and accountability. What's to come in the new year? We can only guess, and guess we will! Plus, we'll look back at what we thought was coming on the pop culture front in 2022 and we'll see how things turned out.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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21:41

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/28

The new film Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody stars Naomi Ackie, and traces the pop superstar's rise in the 1980s and 90s as she breaks records and becomes an icon. The film also follows the singer's tragic downfall as drug abuse and other setbacks take their toll on her life. Directed by Kasi Lemmons and written by Anthony McCarten, the movie is in theaters now.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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20:17

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery: Spoiler Episode

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/27

There are many secrets at the heart of the comedy mystery Glass Onion, just as there were in its predecessor Knives Out. Who lives, who dies, whodunit, and what's the truth behind the glamorous glass onion itself? Rian Johnson's latest film to feature detective Benoit Blanc is now on Netflix, and we're ready to get into the nitty-gritty and spoil the heck out of Glass Onion.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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36:50

The Kardashians, Plus Celebrity Skincare

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/26

The Pop Culture Happy Hour team is off today, so we're bringing you an episode of NPR's It's Been A Minute. In this episode about the Kardashians, host Brittany Luse unpacks how the Kardashian family went from Hollywood D-listers to an American institution. The episode also includes a look at the celebrity skincare syndicate: what are all these people trying to sell us, and what are they buying?Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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25:40

Babylon And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/23

The new film Babylon is all about silent-era Old Hollywood, new technology, the intoxication of being famous, and whether love can really conquer all. Babylon is the latest from writer-director Damien Chazelle, the sometimes divisive creator of La La Land. Here, he doubles down on his nostalgia for cinema with Diego Calva and Margot Robbie leading this expansive production.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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21:02

The Best Man: The Final Chapters

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/22

When The Best Man franchise kicked off in 1999, it tapped into a specific kind of Black Gen Xer sensibility. The two films explored the dynamics of a tight-knit group of young urban professionals, played by Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Regina Hall, and Terrence Howard, to name a few. In the new Peacock miniseries The Best Man: The Final Chapters, the crew has reunited for one last hurrah. Everyone's a little older, but, are they any wiser?Learn more about sponsor message choices:

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19:01

Kindred

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/21

The new FX on Hulu series Kindred is the first on-screen adaptation of any work by the great science fiction writer Octavia Butler. It's the story of Dana, a young Black woman who suddenly finds herself transported onto a Maryland plantation in 1815. She has a connection to the plantation owner's son, and while getting a handle on that, she makes both bitter enemies and surprising allies in the past and present day.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy

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17:20

Nanny

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/20

The Sundance favorite Nanny is a moody thriller starring Anna Diop as Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant who cares for the young child of a rich Manhattan couple. As her tenure with the family progresses, the workplace dynamic becomes fraught and the lines between the real and the imagined are blurred. Nanny is the feature debut of writer and director Nikyatu Jusu and is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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23:55

Hanukkah In Pop Culture

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/19

Right now, families across the world are celebrating Hanukkah, so we thought it would be a good time to revisit our conversation all about the Jewish holiday. In this encore episode, we get into why Hanukkah is not Jewish Christmas, and how the minor holiday has an outsized place in pop culture.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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22:05

Avatar: The Way of Water And What's Making Us Happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/16

James Cameron's science-fiction epic Avatar is the highest-grossing movie of all time. But it took 13 years to get a sequel into theaters. Avatar: The Way of Water continues Jake Sully and Neytiri's journey: complete with their children, a new Na'vi tribe and a familiar enemy to confront.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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17:59

SZA's SOS

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/15

It's been five years since the artist SZA released her debut album Ctrl. Her new album SOS is home to 23 tracks that seamlessly blends pop, R&B, hip-hop, and dips into rock and pop-punk along the way. It features appearances by Travis Scott, Phoebe Bridgers, Don Toliver, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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36:17

2022 Pop Culture Favorites

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/14

It's tradition here at Pop Culture Happy Hour to look back on some of our favorite things from the last 12 months of television, movies and music. Today, we're revisiting the pop culture we saw, heard and loved all year.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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18:42

The Whale

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/13

In the new Darren Aronofsky film The Whale, Brendan Fraser plays Charlie, a housebound 600-pound gay writing teacher whose health is failing. His hopes to spend his last days reconnecting with his estranged daughter (Sadie Sink) are complicated by her lingering resentment of him and his own feelings of guilt, shame and self-loathing.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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15:30

Welcome to Chippendales

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/12

The Hulu miniseries Welcome to Chippendales takes us back to the 80s and the rise of the famed male revue Chippendales. Kumail Nanjiani stars as the club's founder, whose obsession with money and fame ultimately lead to murder. The supporting cast includes Murray Bartlett and Juliette Lewis.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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22:14

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio And What's Making Us...

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/09

Director Guillermo Del Toro has brought a new take on the classic tale of Pinocchio – the little wooden boy who goes on adventures and learns valuable life-lessons about the dangers of lying, laziness and disobedience. Unlike it's Disney predecessor, this new stop-motion animated film is more faithful to its source material. It's darker, weirder, more emotionally complex – and it's gorgeous to look at.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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16:45

Violent Night

Pop Culture Happy Hour ·

2022/12/08

Violent Night dares to ask the question: What if Santa Claus was a jaded drunk who steals booze while leaving presents under the tree on Christmas Eve? David Harbour plays Santa as he finds himself caught in the middle of the home invasion of an insanely wealthy family. And as the movie's title suggests, violence and plenty of Christmas-themed puns ensue.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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