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Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: songs to get you in a summer mood.

The Bob's Burgers Movie, Jordan Peele's Nope, and Fire Island with Bowen Yang and Joel Kim Booster are all on our critics' lists.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Harvey Fierstein's memoir, Bling Empire and more.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Ncuti Gatwa as the new Doctor, Florence + The Machine's new album, and more.

Peacock will stream the 66th Eurovision Song Contest live on Saturday, May 14th. Here's a highly opinionated guide to keep handy as you watch 25 countries vying for gleefully over-the-top glory.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: vintage reads, Elden Ring and something to scratch the Schitt's Creek itch.

The latest MCU film is at its best when director Sam Raimi leans into its horror elements, and at its weakest when it coasts on cameos and callbacks from a now-diffuse network of Marvel properties.

The Paramount Plus show, a prequel to the classic '60s series, offers stripped-down, back-to-basics Trek storytelling and a charming cast.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Bob Odenkirk's memoir, the guy collecting every Gap store playlist ever made and more.

Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) captures both the stark beauty and brutality of the Vikings in his latest film, which tamps down his experimental impulses to tell a familiar revenge tale.

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Everything Everywhere All At Once, Jerrod Carmichael's standup special, and more.

Isaac plays two faces of the Moon Knight in the Disney+ series, and is having much more fun as a goofy gift-shop clerk than he is as the man's glum cypher of an alter-ego.

Will Smith appeared to slap Chris Rock after he made a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

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 Paramount+ series, based on the game franchise, starts off stiff and familiar. It may take some time for the show, and its main character, to loosen up.

Pop Culture Happy Hour listeners voted on the top movies of all time to win best picture at the Oscars.

NBC begins the American Song Contest with representatives from all 50 states, plus Washington, D.C., and five territories. Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson are the hosts for the new show.

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.

In this effective, straight-ahead time-travel yarn, Ryan Reynolds digs beneath his usual persona to find something a bit less glib — and thus, more sympathetic.

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.