Pop Culture Happy Hour: L'Amour For 'Lupin'

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Sam joins the Pop Culture Happy Hour team to talk about the French Netflix series Lupin with culture writer Bedatri D. Choudhury and co-hosts Aisha Harris and Glen Weldon. They discuss the twisty caper's exciting (if implausible) plot, dissect its take on race and class, and gush over Omar Sy's performance.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:05.0	I'm Sam Zanders, and today we're going to share a special bonus episode from another
0:10.2	NPR show, Pop Culture Happy Hour.
0:13.5	So I was on Pop Culture Happy Hour recently to discuss the show I was watching on Netflix.
0:18.9	Y'all know I love watching stuff on Netflix, and y'all also know that I love talking about
0:23.9	what I watch on Netflix.
0:26.5	This show that I was on Pop Culture Happy Hour to discuss, it is called Lupin, or Lupin.
0:33.3	However you pronounce it, it's spelled L-U-P-I-N.
0:36.8	It is a French Heist slash mystery slash revenge thriller, a paper that is very fun and at some
0:44.8	points a little absurd, but I like it.
0:47.5	And this show also surprised me in that it engaged with race and class in some pretty interesting
0:52.8	ways.
0:53.8	Anywho, I had so much fun talking about this show with the co-host of Pop Culture Happy
0:58.0	Hour, my friends and colleagues Aisha Harris and Glenn Weldon.
1:01.8	And also in this chat was Culture writer Badatri D. Chattery.
1:04.8	Alright, let's get to it.
1:06.4	Here's the four of us on Lupin.
1:09.0	Lupin, Lupin, enjoy.
1:16.8	Lupin, or if you want to get technical Lupin, is a smart and twisty French series that's
1:22.2	new to Netflix.
1:24.2	It's about a young Parisian man named Asan, who molds his life on classic French tales
1:27.9	about a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise named Arsene Lupin.
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