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Rooster: Season 1 (2026) 88% EDIT “I'm not going to say it's as good as Shrinking. But that's an extremely high bar. I did enjoy it quite a lot.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Scarpetta: Season 1 (2026) 58% EDIT “When you get into the third episode, and you realize that you've seen 10 minutes of eight different stories I didn't feel like I had time to get invested in anything. ” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Mar 18, 2026 Full Review Love Story: Season 1 (2026) 81% EDIT “I just found it very boring because it refused to engage with any of the stuff I actually wanted to be the conflict of the series.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Mar 10, 2026 Full Review How to Get to Heaven From Belfast: Season 1 (2026) 95% EDIT “All three of these main characters are just wonderful inventions. They're so funny, and they're all unique. And they're all strange in different ways that I very much enjoyed discovering. ” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Feb 23, 2026 Full Review The Pitt: Season 2 (2026) 98% EDIT “It's a season of great complexity not only because these problems are seen through a longer lens but also because everyone is sometimes right. ” – NPR Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Stranger Things: Season 5, Episode 8 (2025) EDIT “The whole thing felt to me like an exercise in trying to have it both ways and all ways. And that epilogue to me, honestly, felt like a 90210 episode. ” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Jan 8, 2026 Full Review Heated Rivalry: Season 1 (2025) 96% EDIT “There's a little bit of a "you want me to do what?" kind of humor to this show. And at the same time, I also really like the fact that it's also very sweet at certain moments.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Dec 20, 2025 Full Review All Her Fault: Season 1 (2025) 79% EDIT “This is a really good show. And I think it's a better show than I [thought].” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Dec 11, 2025 Full Review The Beast in Me: Season 1 (2025) 85% EDIT “My struggle with this was that it felt very, very, very familiar to me.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Dec 3, 2025 Full Review Pluribus: Season 1 (2025) 99% EDIT “If loneliness turns out to be our legacy, Vince Gilligan's haunting new show Pluribus might be one of the era's most relevant works.” – NPR Nov 7, 2025 Full Review IT: Welcome to Derry: Season 1 (2025) 80% EDIT “There's something about this that makes me think it's better as a set of really gross set pieces than it is as a version of IT. ...so much is lost from what I think of as the point of IT, that I'm not sure what this is really supposed to be about.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Nobody Wants This: Season 2 (2025) 79% EDIT “[Adam Brody and Kristen Bell have] both done other shows where they've done kind of fun back-and-forth dialogue. And that part of it worked really well here for me. But that's because I am a romcom person, and I am a sucker for a banter scene.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Nov 4, 2025 Full Review The Lowdown: Season 1 (2025) 98% EDIT “The vibe is going to be a very big word with this show, but that's just because the vibe of it is so good.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Oct 1, 2025 Full Review Wayward: Season 1 (2025) 78% EDIT “It's so perfect because it's so creepy, and yet, it's so dorky.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Sep 30, 2025 Full Review The Paper: Season 1 (2025) 85% EDIT “They don't do a lot of direct referencing of The Office...But...[the show is] in the middle. It's pleasant. It's fine. ” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Sep 9, 2025 Full Review Platonic: Season 2 (2025) 100% EDIT “This show is a bunch of people hanging out in different groups, people who are really good and funny. Some of it's physical comedy, some of it's verbal comedy. It's a really nice deployment of a bunch of different kinds of comedic chemistry.” – Pop Culture Happy Hour (NPR Podcast) Aug 13, 2025 Full Review The Hunting Wives: Season 1 (2025) 81% EDIT “It's silly, it's raunchy, it's high drama. But if it's up your alley, you might find it a pretty well-executed bit of summer entertainment.” – NPR Aug 7, 2025 Full Review Billy Joel: And So It Goes: Season 1 (2025) 92% EDIT “Knowing a lot of the anecdotes, knowing I didn't need to be convinced of his influence, and knowing I was not invested in his marriages and motorcycle accidents, I wasn't sure I needed this project. But I did, as it turns out. ” – NPR Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Too Much: Season 1 (2025) 80% EDIT “Stalter is a tremendously winning rom-com heroine, just silly enough to throw herself into comedic situations but grounded enough that her feelings matter and can be taken entirely seriously. ” – NPR Jul 10, 2025 Full Review The Bear: Season 4 (2025) 84% EDIT “It's a solid season full of strong performances and some killer episodes, leaning into The Bear's strengths more fully than season three. But this is not where anyone would want to leave this story.” – NPR Jun 26, 2025 Full Review Black Mirror: Season 7, Episode 6 (2025) EDIT “This one feels more comic and not quite as cutting. Still, the returning cast, which also includes Billy Magnussen and Jimmi Simpson, is a pleasure.” – NPR Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Black Mirror: Season 7, Episode 5 (2025) EDIT “Giamatti is excellent, and of all the warmer and fuzzier Black Mirror episodes, this is among the best.” – NPR Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Black Mirror: Season 7, Episode 3 (2025) EDIT “One of Black Mirror's best episodes is "San Junipero," another romance between women who meet in an unreal space, and this lovely story, in which Corrin makes a very convincing 1940s actress, pairs well with it.” – NPR Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Black Mirror: Season 7, Episode 2 (2025) EDIT “Her inability to explain what's happening is compelling, but the resolution of the mystery lets this one down a bit. ” – NPR Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Black Mirror: Season 7, Episode 1 (2025) EDIT “The episode gets very good work from the leads and has some good and dark jokes as things get grimmer, but after a while, it feels a bit one-note, clever but not quite satisfying.” – NPR Apr 17, 2025 Full Review
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