Pop Culture Happy Hour

Get obsessed with us. Five 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.

Summer Guide And What's Making Us Happy

There was Barbenheimer Summer, then Brat Summer, what will this year bring? Maybe it's the season of...

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Conclave

Pope Francis' death not only led to an outpouring of remembrances. It also unleashed a new wave of memes...

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The Wedding Banquet

The lovely rom-com The Wedding Banquet has a stellar all-star cast, including Kelly Marie Tran, Lily...

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Recent 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...

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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....

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Your Friends And Neighbors

In the Apple TV+ series Your Friends and Neighbors, a very rich guy reacts to becoming a bit less rich...

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Doctor Who

The last season of the venerable British science fiction series Doctor Who brought a lot of change....

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Warfare

The new film Warfare dispenses with a lot of things you've come to expect from Hollywood war movies....

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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...

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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...

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Dying For Sex

The premise might be a tough sell: a young woman attempts to finally own her sexuality following a terminal...

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The White Lotus

Season three of The White Lotus just wrapped up, but not before serving up a tropical buffet of sex,...

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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...

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Daredevil: Born Again

In Daredevil: Born Again, Charlie Cox returns as everyone's favorite blind-but-with-heightened-senses...

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Survival Of The Thickest

The delightful Netflix series Survival of the Thickest is about an up-and-coming stylist whose professional...

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The Studio

In the very funny new satire The Studio, Seth Rogen plays a Hollywood studio head desperately trying...

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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...

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The Residence

In the new Netflix series The Residence, a dead body shows up in an awkward location: the White House....

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Dope Thief

The Apple TV+ series Dope Thief is a great high-stakes crime thriller to stream now. It stars Brian...

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Severance

In season two of Severance (streaming on Apple TV+), we got a blowout finale with answers to mysteries...

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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...

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Novocaine

In the gleefully grisly action movie Novocaine, Jack Quaid plays a sweet, nerdy guy who does not experience...

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Oscar-Winner Anora Is Now Streaming

Anora recently cleaned up at this year's Oscars, winning five awards, including best picture. Directed...

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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...

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