The Drama and What’s Making Us Happy
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, you're listening to Pop Culture Happy Hour, the podcast that keeps you plugged in about the latest and greatest in movies, TV, music, and more. |
| 0:07.5 | And if you're a pop culture junkie who's not following the show yet, you need to fix that right now by following Pop Culture Happy Hour on your favorite podcast app. |
| 0:15.3 | And next week, we'll be checking into the pit and catching up with some great TV we missed. |
| 0:20.0 | So make sure to listen. And now, |
| 0:22.2 | on to the drama. In the dark comedy, the drama, Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are getting |
| 0:31.1 | married. But maybe they shouldn't. The stars play a couple in full on prep mode for their upcoming wedding, though when a shocking |
| 0:39.5 | secret is revealed, suddenly their love for one another doesn't seem all that secure. |
| 0:44.4 | It's a twisty, provocative movie that brings up a lot of questions, like, how well do you know |
| 0:49.0 | your partner? And can people fundamentally change who they are, really? |
| 0:54.4 | I'm Aisha Harris, and today we're talking about the drama on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. |
| 0:59.9 | And joining me today is Philadelphia Inquirer's Arts and Entertainment Editor and Film Critic, Badatri D. Chaudhry. |
| 1:05.4 | Hey, Badatri. |
| 1:06.3 | Hello, so glad to be here. |
| 1:08.1 | So glad to have you. |
| 1:09.6 | And also with us as journalist and host of the movie review podcast, Seated, Trevelle Anderson. Welcome, Trevelle. Hello, hello. Thanks for having me. So excited to have you both here. Oh, my goodness. So, the drama. Yeah. It's like, what are the reactions do you have? Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:27.8 | What? |
| 1:28.2 | What? |
| 1:33.2 | Yeah, so the drama stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as Emma and Charlie. |
| 1:38.3 | They're just days before their wedding when a conversation with friends leads to an intimate question. |
| 1:41.0 | What's the worst thing you've ever done? |
| 1:47.0 | Emma's answer is, to put it quite frankly, pretty disturbing. Shocking. Yes, yes. So disturbing that it changes how Charlie sees his soon-to-be wife and makes |
| 1:53.4 | him question everything he thought he knew about her. We're going to talk about that disturbing |
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