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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NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour hosts Stephen Thompson and Linda Holmes give us their picks for the best 90's thrillers.
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Between labor conflicts and the constantly changing landscape of what even constitutes television, this is going to be a tricky year for predictions. We have some anyway. -
HBO's Succession ended a four-season run on Sunday night. And Siobhan Roy's final choice exemplifies what the show has been best at, and what its devotees love about it. -
The best finales feel both surprising, like you wouldn't have thought of them, and like they were always destined to happen — and Succession's final episode passes the test. -
The Waystar Royco team travels to L.A., where Kendall pitches eternal life (kind of), Shiv reconnects with the most unlikely of men, and Roman can't stop firing women. -
NPR's Linda Holmes and Eric Deggans recap the new explosive episode of the HBO series Succession.
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Best picture, best original screenplay, best director, best supporting actor and actress, best actress, and best editing — Everything Everywhere All at Once won big again and again. -
Cocaine Bear came in second place and drew $23 million at the box office in its first weekend. The movie is based on a true story.
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The new movie Missing is the latest iteration of a format called "screenlife," in which the plot develops solely through devices and screens.
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War movies are big, first-time acting nominees had a great morning, and inclusion at the Oscars is still an uphill battle. All this, plus the big showing for the unconventional nominations leader.
