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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Great TV We Missed

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

There’s a lot of TV worth recommending out there. So today we’re spotlighting some television we didn’t have time to talk about earlier this year, including Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat, Ponies, Blossoms Shanghai, and Deadloch.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour, the podcast that keeps you up to speed on the latest and greatest in movies, TV, music, and more.

0:07.0

If you're a pop culture obsessive who's not yet following us, you can fix that right now by following Pop Culture Happy Hour on your podcast app of choice.

0:15.5

Now on to the show.

0:20.6

You know how it is.

0:21.8

There's lots of TV worth recommending out there

0:23.9

and only so many episodes of this podcast,

0:26.3

so we're going to miss some good shows.

0:28.3

But when good stuff balls through the cracks,

0:30.4

we like to take a breath, look back,

0:32.6

and highlight some shows that, for whatever reason,

0:35.5

we haven't gotten around to.

0:37.3

I'm Ayesha Harris.

0:38.5

And I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about great TV shows we missed on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

0:46.8

It's just the two of us today, and we're going to focus on new stuff, shows that we missed earlier this year.

0:51.6

And a couple of the shows we're talking about today are streaming on

0:54.2

Prime Video. So we should note that Amazon supports NPR and pays to distribute some of our content.

1:00.2

Aisha, kick us off. What's your first pick? Yes. So my first pick is Jury Duty presents company

1:06.7

retreat. Glenn, I know that you like me were a big fan of Jury Duty the first season. Absolutely. So the first season came out a few years ago on Freebie. Do you also remember Freebie? That was a thing. Barely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that came out a few years ago on Freebie. Now it's on Prime Video. And it was an unexpected hit. Basically, it was like candid camera,

1:30.1

mockumentary style show where this man, Ronald Gladden, sat on a jury trial, had no idea that the trial

1:36.8

wasn't real and that every other person around him was an actor improvising and playing a part.

1:42.6

He turned out to be a very lovely person. This show hinges on

1:46.2

the person at the center who has no idea what's going on being like a decent human being because

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