Linda Holmes Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour.
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Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes writes and edits NPR's entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See.

Linda Holmes

Host, Pop Culture Happy Hour

Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.

Holmes was a writer and editor at Television Without Pity, where she recapped several hundred hours of programming — including both High School Musical movies, for which she did not receive hazard pay. Her first novel, Evvie Drake Starts Over, was published in the summer of 2019.

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The best '90s thrillers according to NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour

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Wednesday

Harrison Ford in The Fugitive. PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy Stock Photo hide caption

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Tuesday

Clockwise from top left: Invisible Beauty, Foe, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 and Nyad. Magnolia Pictures; Amazon Studios; A24; Murray Close/Lionsgate; Focus Features; Liz Parkinson/Netflix hide caption

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Sinclair Daniel and Ashleigh Murray in The Other Black Girl. Hulu hide caption

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Sunday

Other people just going about their lives in public are not fodder for your social media. Let's think a little harder about the etiquette of putting pictures and videos of strangers up online. Delmaine Donson/Getty Images hide caption

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Friday

Cailee Spaeny stars in Priscilla. A24 Films hide caption

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The Fall movies, TV and music we can't wait for

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Wednesday

Tuesday

Clockwise from top left: American Horror Stories, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Changeling, The Mothers-in-Law, Reacher, The Continental: From the World of John Wick. Hulu; Peacock; Apple TV+; Tubi TV; Keri Anderson/Prime Video; Katalin Vermes/Starz Entertainment hide caption

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Monday

Jimmy Fallon hosts the The Tonight Show in March 2023. Todd Owyoung/NBC hide caption

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Nia Vardalos stars as Toula and John Corbett stars as Ian in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. Focus Features hide caption

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Tuesday

Meryl Streep on Only Murders in the Building. Patrick Harbron/HULU hide caption

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Saturday

The idea that boundless customization is the way of the future misunderstands the relationship between creator and audience and the negotiation that goes on between the two. Above, Laura Marano as Cami and Jordi Webber as Jack in Choose Love. Netflix hide caption

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Friday

Meghan Markle and Patrick J. Adams in Suits. Cinematic / Alamy Stock Photo hide caption

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Roy Johnson (right) with a Bishop Sycamore player in the HBO documentary, BS High. HBO hide caption

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Thursday

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Books We Love: Book Club Ideas

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Friday

John Cho in season two of Apple+ series The Afterparty. Apple TV+ hide caption

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Saturday

This season of Bravo's Below Deck Down Under follows the crew of The Northern Sun through the waters of Cairns, Australia. Mark Rogers/Bravo hide caption

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