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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James Van Der Beek, who played heartthrob Dawson Leery on "Dawson's Creek," died Wednesday at 48 years old.
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The first season of The Pitt was about acute problems. The second is about chronic ones. -
Sinners landed a record number of nods, while Avatar: Fire and Ash and Wicked: For Good fell short of their franchise predecessors. -
NPR's Linda Holmes and Sarah Handel discuss why they are hooked on documentaries and some of the best ones you may not yet have seen.
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Two popular streaming series return Thursday: "The Pitt" and "The Traitors." Pop Culture Happy Hour previews those shows and some of the other big events coming to the small screen in January. -
After five seasons and almost ten years, the saga of Netflix's Stranger Things has reached its end. In a two-hour finale, we found out what happened to our heroes (including Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard) when they set out to battle the forces of evil. -
Hope springs eternal, and that is nowhere more true than in the realm of New Year's Resolutions. Today, we give ourselves goals for 2026. And because we believe in accountability, we'll tell you how well we stuck to our resolutions for 2025. -
After nearly 10 years, the Netflix hit "Stranger Things" is ending. The series finale, which clocks in at just over two hours, drops on New Year's Eve. -
What's the best Christmas gift you ever received? You probably didn't have to think about it; you knew it in your bones. Today, in this encore episode, we're talking about the actual, tangible gift you found waiting for you under the tree and still think about it from time to time. -
NPR's Linda Holmes and Barrie Hardymon talk about why whodunits feel so cozy, what makes a great mystery work, and why the genre is having a moment again on screen.
