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Nov 15, 2024 | npr.org | J.C. Howard |Margaret H. Willison |Linda Holmes

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listeningThis week, The Onion , My Little Pony and we . Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend. It's Florida, Man on Max is based on the endlessly meme-able "Florida man" headlines that we've always seen go viral. The show is basically interviews with everyday Floridians telling unbelievable ripped-from-the-headlines stories.

Nov 15, 2024 | npr.org | Linda Holmes |J.C. Howard |Margaret H. Willison |Liz Metzger |Hafsa Fathima |Mike Katzif | +1 more

'Red One' is a Christmas buddy comedy for fans of muscleIn the deeply goofy Christmas action comedy Red One, the holiday season comes to an emergency halt when Santa (J.K. Simmons) is kidnapped. It's up to his head of security, played by Dwayne Johnson, and a ne'er-do-well played by Chris Evans to save Christmas. Amazon supports NPR and pays to distribute some of our content.

Oct 29, 2024 | npr.org | Glen Weldon |Hafsa Fathima |J.C. Howard |Priya Krishna |Mike Katzif

'Agatha All Along' is the reason for spooky seasonAgatha All Along is a darkly funny new Marvel show on Disney Plus. Kathryn Hahn plays the selfish, sardonic and hilariously petty witch Agatha Harkness, When a mysterious goth teen saves her from a spell she's been trapped in, she assembles a coven of witches so they can together undergo a series of trials that will grant them each what they most desire.

May 16, 2024 | npr.org | Aisha Harris |J.C. Howard |Cristina Escobar |Rommel Wood |Mike Katzif

'Babes' gives us a funny (and gross) portrait of parenthood Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1197964566/1251555386" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Michelle Buteau and Ilana Glazer in a scene from the film Babes. Gwen Capistran/Neon hide caption toggle caption Gwen Capistran/Neon Michelle Buteau and Ilana Glazer in a scene from the film Babes.

Feb 3, 2024 | npr.org | Candice Lim |J.C. Howard |Glen Weldon |Stephen Thompson

Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Jack Dawkins in The Artful Dodger. John Platt/ Hulu hide caption toggle caption John Platt/ Hulu Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Jack Dawkins in The Artful Dodger. John Platt/ Hulu This week, things got dicey for Elmo, people just kept on being weird about Taylor Swift, and we we said goodbye to the great, great, great Chita Rivera. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.