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News Articles: Series: Pop Culture Happy Hour

Jabari Banks as Will in <em>Bel-Air.</em>

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing, listening and gaming

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the show Bel-Air, the video game Thank Goodness You’re Here, and a podcast episode about sweat.

August 16, 2024
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By:
  • Chris Klimek,
  • Glen Weldon,
  • and 2 more
GPB News NPR

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Blue Ribbon Baking Championship on Netflix, Lev Grossman's novel The Bright Sword, and more.

August 09, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
 Clockwise from left, pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, the Canoe Slalom Women's Kayak Cross, women's rugby player Sammy Sullivan, and the Men's 100m Final.

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  • Sports

These Olympic medals don’t exist — so we made them up

What if there were Olympic medals for audience participation, or the best use of an accessory? NPR’s pop culture critic doles them out.

August 09, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Myha'la Herrold as Harper Stern in Season 3.

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  • TV Reviews

HBO's corporate drama 'Industry' is finally back. Here's a quick refresher

Season 2 of HBO's Industry ended with a wedding, an arrest and a sacked star investor. Season 3 is the most dramatic and stress-inducing yet.

August 08, 2024
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By:
  • Aisha Harris
Daemon (Matt Smith) sissies that walk.

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  • TV Reviews

'House of the Dragon' Season 2 finale: Before dragons dance, they gotta stretch

After last week’s barn-burner (and serf-burner) of an episode, this season climax qualifies as anti-. The season ends not with a bang, but with a lot of whimpering.

August 04, 2024
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
 In a Google ad during the Olympics, a dad uses AI tool Gemini to write a letter from his daughter to star hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

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  • Television

The antithesis of the Olympics: Using AI to write a fan letter

In one of Google’s Olympics ads, a dad uses AI tool Gemini to craft a fan letter from his daughter to an Olympian. But it’s the wrong approach to express admiration in a star athlete – and to instill confidence in a burgeoning one.

July 31, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Robert Downey Jr. onstage at the Marvel Studios panel during Comic-Con in San Diego over the weekend.

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  • Movies

A puzzling match made in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom

The one-time Tony Stark will soon play Marvel Comics villain Doctor Doom. The news has our pop culture critic asking: Can you imagine Robert Downey Jr. saying these Doctor Doom lines?

July 30, 2024
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
Rhaenyra (Emma D'Arcy) doesn't want you to talk to her or her son ever again.

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  • TV Reviews

‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 2, Episode 7: Recruiting dragonseeds bears dragonfruit

Rhaenyra goes looking for a few good men and finds them; Daemon dithers.

July 28, 2024
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history. But she withdrew from the last summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, a journey that is chronicled in the new Netflix series <em>Simone Biles Rising</em>.

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  • Sports

Simone Biles reminds us: You never know what Olympic athletes are going through

Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history. But she withdrew from the last summer Olympic Games due to mental health struggles. Her journey is chronicled in the new Netflix series Simone Biles Rising.

July 27, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
GPB News NPR

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend reading and listening

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: This Is How You Lose the Time War, GWAR covering “I’m Just Ken,” and the Tested podcast series from NPR's Embedded.

July 26, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes,
  • Stephen Thompson,
  • and 1 more
 Rusty Sabich (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Raymond Horgan (Bill Camp) prepare to hear the verdict in Rusty's trial in the finale of <em>Presumed Innocent</em>.

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  • TV Reviews

'Presumed Innocent' finale: And the murderer is ...

The verdict is in, and the ending is a dud: Rather than wriggling out of the original story’s sexism, the Apple TV+ series just makes the same mistakes in a new way.

July 24, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) tends to his ailing brother Aegon (Tom Glynn-Carney) like a real Florence Turkeyvulture.

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  • TV Reviews

'House of the Dragon' Season 2, Episode 6: A blind date goes down in flames

Aegon catches on to Aemond's power plays. Plus: Alicent shows symptoms of maternal instinct.

July 21, 2024
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
GPB News NPR

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  • Pop Culture

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and reading

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Watching the WNBA, celebrities throwing first pitches, the novel The God of the Woods, and the Criterion sale at Barnes & Noble.

July 19, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Edmundo Sosa and Phillies teammate Brandon Marsh after a game against the New York Mets in May.

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  • Television

Looking for a comfort watch? Turn on baseball, our pop culture critic says

Just in time for the All-Star Game, pop culture critic and Phillies fan Linda Holmes is here to persuade you to turn on some baseball. If you don't have a team, just borrow hers; they're doing pretty well.

July 16, 2024
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
How much does Aemond (Ewan Mitchell) want the Iron Throne? ARRRRRdently!

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  • TV Reviews

‘House of the Dragon’ Season 2, Episode 5, Orchestrated maneuvers in the dark (and rainy)

In episode 5, Daemon's dreams go from spooky to scandalous. Plus: Your choice of kings — original recipe or extra-crispy.

July 14, 2024
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By:
  • Glen Weldon
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