A Choose-Your Own Summer Adventure

Pop Culture Happy Hour Says Yes to Summer

View this email online Slowly, then all at once: summer. With due respect to your geography, in Washington, D.C. - where (most of) the hosts of Pop Culture Happy Hour gather to record the show - it’s a sunscreen-scented, mosquito-bite-laden, three-point-five-month-long holiday season. We’re not saying that we’re against whatever goes on in the sweaty outdoors, but here at Pop Culture Happy Hour, we’re especially big fans of taking in our sundry pop cultural fixes in more...air-conditioned climes. Regardless of where the next few months take you  — a glitzy faraway destination, the inside of a rental car, or just the shores of your living room sofa — we’ve got a whole slate of episodes as quaffable and seasonally appropriate as a tall frozen daiquiri. Drink up, Pop Culture Happy Hour FOR THE AIRPORT BOUND Is there a TSA line in your future? Step up your in-flight entertainment by taking a few minutes gateside to download a few episodes ahead of takeoff. Get your PCHH fix from the comfort of a seat you can barely recline. What Makes a Good Sex Scene? Will They? Won’t They? And Why Do We Care? The Pop Culture Hill I’ll Die On ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ is Weird and Transfixing FOR THOSE HAPPY TO BE STUCK INSIDE WITH THE A/C ABSOLUTELY BLASTING It’s time to finally watch (or re-watch) your favorite long-form shows. From The Sopranos, to Bridgerton, to The Wire and back again — prestige TV almost feels better when the weather’s sub-saharan outdoors, and sub-arctic indoors. Cool off with your favorite marathon thrillers, dramas, and romances, then plunge yourself in an ice bath of commentary. Bridgerton, Season 3 - Part 1 Bridgerton, Season 3 - Part 2 Looking Back at the Sopranos, The Godfather (heh) of Prestige TV’ 20 Years Later, ‘The Wire’ Still Enthralls FOR THE ROAD-TRIPPERS Once you finally figure out how to connect your Bluetooth or aux cord or CarPlay or whatever you’ve got going on, link up with Pop Culture Happy Hour and press play. It’s a two-for-one: you’ll get a cool shot of culture while you quiet the bickering going on in the backseat. 'Frozen' Princesses And Character Deaths ‘Inside Out 2’ is a Sequel Worth Celebrating 'Babes' gives us a funny (and gross) portrait of parenthood ‘Drive Away Dolls’ Is a Zany and Shaggy Roadtrip Caper Gay Hamsters. A Litigious Elf. A Cowgirl Toilet. Welcome to Julio Torres’ ‘Fantasmas’ FOR THE BEACHSIDE (OR THE POOLSIDE, RIVERSIDE, LAKESIDE, ETC.) Being by a huge amount of water necessarily calls for breezy entertainment. Pop in your headphones, slather a gob of zinc on your nose, and shut your eyes for a tranquil sonic background of some of the sunniest shows and stories that we had the pleasure of yapping about this year. We Debate the Sweatiest Movie of All Time We Debate the Best Fictional Bands Terrible But Bingeable TV Shows We Watch ‘Love is Blind’ Because we Know It’s Not A New Wendy Williams Documentary Raises More Questions Than It Answers Stream your local NPR station. Visit NPR.org to find your local station stream. This email was sent by: National Public Radio 1111 North Capitol Street NE Washington, DC, 20002, US   If you have any questions, please submit a help ticket here. Update Preferences  |  Privacy Policy