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People We Meet On Vacation and What's Making Us Happy
New Jan 09, 2026 21 min

People We Meet On Vacation and What's Making Us Happy

The new Netflix rom-com People We Meet On Vacation is about best friends Poppy (Emily Bader) and Alex (Tom Blyth) who have gone on annual trips together since meeting in college. But there's always...

Sabrina Carpenter and the Embarrassing Truth of Dating Men
New Jan 08, 2026 14 min

Sabrina Carpenter and the Embarrassing Truth of Dating Men

What's it like to date a man? Ask Sabrina Carpenter, Olivia Dean, or your friends, and you might hear it's a struggle. Today we’re bringing you an episode of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute. Host Brittany...

No Other Choice
New Jan 07, 2026 16 min

No Other Choice

No Other Choice is a new bleak comedy about a man (Lee Byung-hun) at a crossroads. After losing his job at a paper company, he resorts to desperate, unhinged measures to get a new job. He tracks do...

Stranger Things
New Jan 06, 2026 22 min

Stranger Things

After five seasons and almost ten years, the saga of Netflix’s Stranger Things has reached its end. In a two-hour finale, we found out what happened to our heroes (including Millie Bobby Brown and ...

2026 Resolutions and What’s Making Us Happy
Jan 02, 2026 25 min

2026 Resolutions and What’s Making Us Happy

Hope springs eternal, and that is nowhere more true than in the realm of New Year’s Resolutions. Today, we give ourselves goals for 2026. And because we believe in accountability, we’ll tell you ho...

2026 Pop Culture Predictions
Dec 31, 2025 29 min

2026 Pop Culture Predictions

What does 2026 have in store for pop culture? Today, we’re back for another year of pop culture predictions. We’ll touch on A.I., the future of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and what’s to come for the Law &a...

2025 Best Video Games
Dec 30, 2025 19 min

2025 Best Video Games

If you’re anything like us, you spend a fair amount of your screen time playing video games. Whether you like combat, horror, or peacefully going over archival research, NPR’s roundup of best games...

2025 Books We Love
Dec 29, 2025 10 min

2025 Books We Love

NPR’s Books We Love is a roundup of the best books from the past year, sorted and tagged to help you find exactly what you’re looking for. This year we’ve got hundreds of book recommendations, so t...

Anaconda
Dec 26, 2025 20 min

Anaconda

The new Anaconda movie is a meta reimagining in which Jack Black and Paul Rudd play aspiring filmmakers who attempt to make… a meta reimagining of Anaconda. It’s not quite a reboot, it’s not quite ...

Marty Supreme and What’s Making Us Happy
Dec 24, 2025 23 min

Marty Supreme and What’s Making Us Happy

The new movie Marty Supreme asks, can Timothée Chalamet play a supremely annoying character and still keep us interested from beginning to end? He stars as a working-class heel aiming to become a t...

Best Christmas Gift I Ever Received
Dec 23, 2025 21 min

Best Christmas Gift I Ever Received

What's the best Christmas gift you ever received? You probably didn't have to think about it; you knew it in your bones. Today, in this encore episode, we're talking about the actual, tangible gift...

The Housemaid
Dec 22, 2025 21 min

The Housemaid

The twisty thriller The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney as a newly hired live-in housekeeper to Amanda Seyfried’s wealthy housewife. Both women have dark secrets, and their dynamic goes downhill rea...

Avatar: Fire And Ash and What’s Making Us Happy
Dec 19, 2025 24 min

Avatar: Fire And Ash and What’s Making Us Happy

In Avatar: Fire and Ash, James Cameron’s saga continues in a visually stunning movie full of epic battles, uneasy alliances, human assimilation, and debates with whales. The film follows the Na’vi ...

Heated Rivalry
Dec 18, 2025 20 min

Heated Rivalry

The new show Heated Rivalry is a very sexy and very queer hockey romance streaming on HBO Max–and it’s a phenomenon. It follows archrival players Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov ...

Fallout
Dec 17, 2025 18 min

Fallout

Fallout is based on a hugely successful video game series known for blending a sardonic, very dark comedic sensibility, and violence. The series is set in the game's post-apocalyptic world – an Ame...

Great Movies We Missed
Dec 16, 2025 19 min

Great Movies We Missed

Every year, we like to take a moment to look back and spotlight a few favorite films we didn’t have time to talk about. Today, we're making recommendations for great movies we missed in 2025 includ...

Mailbag: The Movies We Walked Out Of
Dec 14, 2025 14 min

Mailbag: The Movies We Walked Out Of

Aisha and Stephen answer a mailbag question! Send in your own questions at [email protected], and we may answer it in a future bonus episode.This usually would be a bonus episode just for Pop Culture Ha...

Jay Kelly
Dec 10, 2025 21 min

Jay Kelly

In Netflix’s Jay Kelly, George Clooney plays the aging movie star Jay Kelly. His longtime manager (Adam Sander) and publicist (Laura Dern) struggle to manage Jay on a trip through Europe as he deal...

The Worst Christmas Movies
Dec 09, 2025 24 min

The Worst Christmas Movies

‘Tis the season you’ll find plenty of good holiday movies – films that can be counted upon to deliver warmth and cheer. And bad holiday movies? They can be fun in their own way. So we’re debating: ...