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Pop Culture Happy Hour

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Pop Culture Happy Hour Podcast Guide

Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour, a TV & Film podcast by NPR. Stream 331 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Supergirl and What’s Making Us Happy

Hollywood’s newest Supergirl is kind of a dirtbag — in the good way. Fearless and grumpy, Supergirl (Milly Alcock) sets out on a quest to su...

22:33Jun 26, 2026

Great movies we missed

There have been some fantastic movies released this year, and we know you can’t see them all. So we’re recommending four recent movies we mi...

20:49Jun 25, 2026

Leviticus

You should see the new horror movie Leviticus . Set in a small Australian religious community, it’s about two queer teens that start having...

16:27Jun 23, 2026

Best Pixar Movies, Ranked

Toy Story 5 just hit theaters, so it seemed like a good time to revisit our episode from last summer where we discussed YOUR picks for the g...

26:18Jun 22, 2026

Toy Story 5 and What's Making Us Happy

In Disney’s Toy Story 5 , Jessie, Woody, and Buzz are back to confront a new threat – screen time. When their kid Bonnie gets a new tablet c...

24:26Jun 19, 2026

Widow’s Bay

Widow’s Bay is a spine-tingling blend of horror and comedy you won't want to miss. The buzzy Apple TV series follows a mayor (Matthew Rhys)...

21:30Jun 16, 2026

Stop! That! Train!

The ridiculously fun new film Stop! That! Train! brings the gags-a-minute silliness of Airplane! to the bawdy world of RuPaul’s Drag Race ....

21:59Jun 15, 2026

Disclosure Day and What’s Making Us Happy

Stephen Spielberg brings aliens back to the big screen in Disclosure Day . But how does his new blockbuster compare to his alien classics li...

25:36Jun 12, 2026

Summer House

Have you been keeping up with all the drama of Summer House ? The cast of the Bravo reality series is currently embroiled in a scandal invol...

22:14Jun 11, 2026

Office Romance

The new Netflix film Office Romance pairs rom-com veteran Jennifer Lopez with Brett Goldstein in a story about the hazards of falling for yo...

22:12Jun 9, 2026

Scary Movie

The horror comedy franchise Scary Movie is back in theaters with a new movie. But does this legacy sequel that parodies other legacy sequels...

20:02Jun 8, 2026

Power Ballad

In the wonderful new film Power Ballad , Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas play two musicians whose careers haven’t exactly gone to plan – but one so...

20:31Jun 4, 2026

Spider-Noir

Does Spider-Noir get its blend of noir and superheroes right? In the 2018 film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Nicolas Cage gave us a tas...

17:55Jun 2, 2026

Backrooms

The new horror movie Backrooms is about some of the creepiest places imaginable: the nondescript, beige-carpeted rooms that populate countle...

21:08Jun 1, 2026

The Four Seasons

Netflix’s charming comedy The Four Seasons follows a group of couples whose friendship dynamic is rocked by their mid-life crises. The impre...

19:14May 28, 2026

I Love Boosters

In the new film I Love Boosters , Keke Palmer is the ringleader of a shoplifting crew that squares off with an unethical fashion CEO played...

20:32May 26, 2026

The Boroughs

Something is definitely up in the fantastic new Netflix series The Boroughs . Monsters, or maybe aliens? It’s set in a seemingly idyllic mid...

20:34May 25, 2026