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What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend listening and viewing
Friday, March 25, 2022
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: game shows and album recommendations.
'The Lost City' is silly, sexy, movie-star fun
Friday, March 25, 2022
The Lost City is mostly a chance to watch Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum be charming and silly together. That turns out to be a pretty good deal.
You voted — here's a ranking of the top movies ever to win an Oscar for best picture
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners voted on the top movies of all time to win best picture at the Oscars.
'Deep Water' could have been artful or fun — but instead, it's just mechanical
Saturday, March 19, 2022
The movie's conceit is right up director Adrian Lyne's alley: a story about the mixing of sex and violence. But the film, starring Ana De Armas and Ben Affleck, is more competent than anything else.
'Windfall' is a satisfying, well-acted thriller that lives up to its clever premise
Friday, March 18, 2022
The Netflix movie, directed by Charlie McDowell, follows three unnamed characters played by Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins. What unfolds is unsettling, suspenseful and very, very tense.
Brain surgery separates memories of work life from personal life in 'Severence'
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
The Apple series 'Severance' is about a group of office workers who have undergone brain surgery that completely separates their memories of work from their memories of their regular lives.
Once, cultural ties to Russia were deliberate and hopeful. Now, they're eroding
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Russia's growing isolation in the cultural world is poignant for those who remember optimistic outreach of the 80s and 90s.
What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading, listening and viewing
Friday, March 11, 2022
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: BTS, Sandra Oh and meditations on humor.
Adam McKay's signature style is spreading. But one of him is enough
Sunday, March 06, 2022
The executive producer of HBO's new series Winning Time is known for his fourth-wall breaking, look-at-the-camera-and-explain style. That approach comes up in Super Pumped, a show he didn't make.
What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading, listening and viewing
Saturday, March 05, 2022
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: new music from Drug Church, learning to knit and Judy Greer.
Five big takeaways from the SAG Awards — and what they might mean for the Oscars
Monday, February 28, 2022
The Screen Actors Guild Awards happened on Sunday night, and a couple of big wins might have implications for the rest of the awards year.
Your favorite celebrity could be playing your least favorite tech villain on TV
Monday, January 31, 2022
There's a lot that unites these projects: high-profile stars playing people who fell from grace. Specifically, people who shared the trait of having been being ambitious when it came to money.
What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend reading, viewing and gaming
Friday, January 28, 2022
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: True Story With Ed & Randall, a web-based game that isn't Wordle, and more.
On 'The Afterparty,' a high school reunion really can kill you
Friday, January 28, 2022
The Apple TV+ show might not be as riotous as its roster of comedy stars would suggest, but it's an entertaining murder mystery.
Your Wordle strategy says a lot about how you see the world
Monday, January 24, 2022
It did not take long for me to conclude that Wordle is a metaphor for life, meaning that you can learn a lot about different ways to see the world from different ways to play Wordle.
Five questions that need answers in the final 'Ozark' season
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Netflix's popular crime series is about to drop the first half of its last season. We look at five questions that hang over these seven episodes, and the seven more that will follow.
'The Gilded Age' gives old New York money the HBO treatment
Thursday, January 20, 2022
The new series The Gilded Age, from the creator of Downton Abbey, takes a big, talented cast to 1882 New York for a story about money and class.
'How I Met Your Father' tries to learn from a 'Mother' of mistakes
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Years after the How I Met Your Mother finale left us with bad feelings, How I Met Your Father is premiering on Hulu. The concept is similar, but the chemistry and quirkiness may be hard to duplicate.
Your 'Yellowjackets' finale questions, answered
Sunday, January 16, 2022
In the season finale of Showtime's Yellowjackets, some of the mysteries of what really happened to the team in 1996 got some resolution. Some didn't. We're here to sort it out.
How Ronnie Spector and 'Be My Baby' became a pop-culture sound of sex in 1987
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Twice in the same year, the song "Be My Baby" — featuring the voice of Ronnie Spector, who died this week — became the sound that signaled something memorably, indelibly sexy.