Linda Holmes appears in the following:
This romcom lets you pick the ending — that doesn't make it good
Saturday, September 02, 2023
Turns out multiple choice options work better for SATs than for storytelling. Netflix's Choose Love makes the case against AI writing — ordering a movie like a pizza doesn't make for good movies.
What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, reading and listening
Friday, September 01, 2023
Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Telemarketers docuseries, Celebrity Book Club and the novel Once More with Feeling.
In 'BS High' and 'Telemarketers,' scamming is a group effort
Thursday, August 24, 2023
In two HBO documentary projects about scams in football and telemarketing, the systemic problems that drive big-time and small-time grift get their due.
What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening
Friday, August 18, 2023
Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery series, Good One podcast and The Kaiju Preservation Society.
'Below Deck,' reality producers stepped in to stop a drunken assault — this time
Saturday, August 12, 2023
On Bravo's Below Deck Down Under, producers intervened to prevent a sexual assault. It was an abrupt change of course for a franchise known for encouraging bad behavior from very drunk people.
What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
Saturday, July 22, 2023
Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the movie Earth Mama, a recent episode of Vibe Check and albums from Aqua and The Japanese House.
Cruise control: An homage to the relentless reliability of 'Mission: Impossible'
Sunday, July 16, 2023
The Mission: Impossible franchise runs on its ability to meet expectations. Not just any expectations — high expectations. And through all seven films, it has remained remarkably stable at its core.
What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and reading
Friday, July 14, 2023
Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Flyana Boss, Project Runway All Stars, and new nonfiction about queer representation and media.
It's going to be a weird year at the Emmys: Here are our predictions
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Between labor conflicts and the constantly changing landscape of what even constitutes television, this is going to be a tricky year for predictions. We have some anyway.
What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
Friday, July 07, 2023
Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Mystery Menu series, The Alarmist podcast, Every Body and Two Can Play That Game.
What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading, viewing and listening
Friday, June 23, 2023
Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Beware the Woman, Dungeons and Drag Queens, and the DVD menu of The Social Network.
'The Bear' deftly turns the 'CORNER!' into Season 2
Friday, June 23, 2023
These 10 new episodes maintain all the heat of the first season — skillfully avoiding common pitfalls and successfully pushing the story forward. Plus, there are some great guest stars.
If you don't love the 3D movie experience, you're not alone
Saturday, June 17, 2023
Critic Linda Holmes has always been a 3D skeptic — the glasses are fiddly and become plastic junk, the gimmicks wear off, it gets distracting, and it introduces opportunities for technical problems.
Five great moments from the 'Ted Lasso' finale
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
In a final episode that seems likely to be the end of the road for Apple's decorated show, friendships were cemented, football was played, and signs were everywhere.
These are the new movies and TV shows we can't wait to watch this summer
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Studios raced to finish summer attractions ahead of the writers strike. So we're back with a great big, filterable guide of what to watch — and where to find it — as the days get hotter and longer.
Dear 'Succession' fans, we need to talk about Shiv Roy in that series finale
Monday, May 29, 2023
HBO's Succession ended a four-season run on Sunday night. And Siobhan Roy's final choice exemplifies what the show has been best at, and what its devotees love about it.
'Succession' has ended — and the point was never who was going to win
Monday, May 29, 2023
The best finales feel both surprising, like you wouldn't have thought of them, and like they were always destined to happen — and Succession's final episode passes the test.
'Platonic' is more full-circle friendship than love triangle, and it's better that way
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne star as estranged best friends who reconnect in midlife. Harry Met Sally vibes aside, this show is too busy having good, goofy fun to bother focusing on will they/won't they.
What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening
Friday, May 26, 2023
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: You're the Worst, 60 Songs that Explain the '90s, and Little Moon wins the Tiny Desk.
'Succession' season 4, episode 9: 'Church and State'
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Logan's funeral is a wrenching experience for his kids — and then they get right back to scheming and plotting, as civil unrest in the streets grows closer.