Pop Culture Happy Hour

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Trying to keep up with the latest in pop culture? We’ve got you covered. The Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast helps you find the best new binge-worthy tv shows, movies, music, and videogames.Join hosts Linda Holmes, Aisha Harris, Stephen Thompson, and Glen Weldon four episodes a week - plus a rotating cast of guest pop culture enthusiasts. It’s your fix for reviews, recommendations, and recaps of the pop culture everyone is talking about. From lowbrow reality TV to Oscar-winning movies to the stuff in between, we take it all with a shot of cheer. On the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, we watch everything so that you never miss anything. Support public media by joining NPR+ at plus.npr.org. You’ll get perks for over 25 NPR podcasts, including bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening for Pop Culture Happy Hour.

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  1. 2026-11-13 · 30 min

    In excellent new film Club Kid, Jordan Firstman stars as a hard-partying manchild whose life is forever altered after learning he’s the dad to a 10-year-old kid (Reggie Absolom). Firstman also wrote and directed the…

  2. 2026-11-12 · 22 min

    The new fun CBS show Cupertino is reminiscent of old-school legal dramas, and that’s a good thing. From the creators of The Good Wife, it follows two lawyers in Silicon Valley (Mike Colter and Rachel Keller) whose new…

  3. 2026-11-11 · 19 min

    The film Possible Love recently hit Netflix, and it’s worth your time. It’s the latest from director Lee Chang-dong, whose previous film Burning was a critical hit. In the Korean film, two couples living very different…

  4. 2026-11-09 · 20 min

    Godzilla Minus Zero is the sequel to Godzilla Minus One, the global word-of-mouth hit that just happened to be the first Godzilla movie ever to win an Oscar. In the movie, our heroes battle Godzilla and…a new nemesis.…

  5. 2026-11-06 · 23 min

    Wild Horse Nine is a terrific new movie that stars John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as two CIA agents who head to Easter Island for an unusual and mysterious mission in the early 1970s. They bicker and banter constantly,…

  6. 2026-11-05 · 22 min

    Fall is in the air and you need stuff to watch and listen to and read as you curl up under the blanket and settle in. We’ve got you covered with some under the radar picks that are, as the kids say, giving autumn. We…

  7. 2026-11-03 · 16 min

    The comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins stars Tracy Morgan as a disgraced former football star and Daniel Radcliffe as a documentary filmmaker who team up to make a movie. The NBC/Peacock mockumentary…

  8. 2026-11-02 · 19 min

    The new Disney+ show VisionQuest is the latest Marvel television series, and it’s one of the good ones. It’s the conclusion of the trilogy that began with WandaVision and continued through Agatha All Along, reuniting…

  9. 2026-10-30 · 24 min

    Nothing’s fair in love and war — and it's especially true in the very watchable HBO series War. Dominic West and Sienna Miller play a high-profile British couple duking it out in a high-stakes divorce. And the cutthroat…

  10. 2026-10-29 · 26 min

    Do you like scary movies? It's spooky season, so what better way to get into the Halloween spirit than plopping down in front of a film engineered to scare your pants off. Today, in this encore episode, we’re revisiting…

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