Linda Holmes
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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Grab your blanket, your cocoa, your snuggler of choice – holiday movie season has arrived. Here's a rundown of the standard and not-so-standard offerings you'll find on TV this year. -
The Bear, Shogun and Baby Reindeer split most of the major categories, while Eugene and Dan Levy did their best to move things along. There weren't many surprises and ... wait, didn't we just do this? -
A roundup of reading recommendations for tweens and teens that highlight - and help with - some of the drama of those middle and high school years.
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Some lucky sports fans are in Paris, but most Olympics viewers are watching from home. NPR Pop Culture Critic Linda Holmes gives host Scott Simon her review of the broadcast coverage so far.
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As Major League Baseball heads into the second half of its season, Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes marvels at just how routinely pleasing and comforting it is to watch a game.
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Abbott Elementary was nominated for best comedy series. But the more serious FX show The Bear set a record on the comedy side with 23 nominations. Shogun got even more nods.
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Actress Shannen Doherty, star of Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed, died over the weekend. She was 53 and was battling cancer.
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Romantic comedies: they’re corny, sometimes swoon-worthy and if you pay attention to movies, they’re everywhere lately. After a long dry spell, the romantic comedy seems to be coming back into favor.
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Hallmark is teaming up with the NFL and the Kansas City Chiefs to make a holiday romance movie, capitalizing on Travis Kelce's relationship with Taylor Swift.
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The Netflix show's third season takes on the "friends to lovers" romance trope.
