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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Trap and what's making us happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller Trap stars Josh Hartnett as a father attending a pop concert with his teenage daughter. But all is not as it appears. It quickly turns out that the entire concert is surrounded by police who are trying to catch a dangerous serial killer in the most difficult way possible. There is a lot going on in this bonkers movie: lots of pop songs, and lots of strange decision-making.

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0:00.0

Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

0:07.0

If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

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I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely American

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I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American from Boise State Public

0:21.2

Radio, part of the NPR Network.

0:24.0

The new thriller Trap finds a father and daughter attending a concert put on by the daughter's favorite pop idol.

0:35.1

But all is not as it appears because this is a film by M. Knight-Shawlawn.

0:40.8

It quickly turns out that the entire concert is surrounded by police who are trying to catch a dangerous serial killer in the most difficult way possible.

0:50.0

I'm Stephen Thompson.

0:52.0

And I'm Linda Hall. Who who boy today we're talking about

0:54.7

trap on pop culture happy hour from NPR joining me in Stephen today is our

1:00.3

co-host Aisha Harris Harris. Hello, Aisha.

1:03.4

It is an honor to be trapped with both of you

1:05.8

to talk about trap.

1:08.0

Wonderful, wonderful.

1:09.5

So I want to say something about spoilers first.

1:12.0

There's a turn that they start to

1:13.4

reveal very early like in the first few minutes and it's also fully

1:16.7

revealed in the trailer for the movie that forms the setup and the premise for the

1:21.1

whole thing. So if you don't want to know about it, feel free to see the movie come back later. I'll just say the movie is a doozy. But otherwise, here we go. Josh Hartnett plays Cooper, a dad who's taking his teenage daughter Riley, played by Ariel Donahue, to a huge

1:36.7

stadium concert as a treat for getting good grades. The star of the show is Lady Raven, played by Salica, who is the musician daughter of director and writer M Knight-Shamalan.

1:49.0

Cooper and Riley are not at the concert for very long before he realizes that the place is

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