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, will be published in the summer of 2019.
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Linda Holmes takes a look at the list of this year's nominees, which includes some heartening nods and surprising snubs. -
One pop culture critic takes some time to run down not 10, not 20, but 50 wonderful things from movies, TV and more in 2018. -
This year's Academy Award nominations include a lot of old favorites, but also some new voices — including the first women ever nominated for cinematography. -
Saturday Night Livebroke format this weekend as Jason Aldean performed Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" in response to the October 1 shooting in Las Vegas.
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The Emmy Awards are always good to past winners, but Monday's round of victories were about as conservative as it gets. Surprising, given the warm sendoff to a show about a drug dealer.
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If you couldn't get away from the movie Sharknado last night, you're not alone. We're here to help. -
Seth MacFarlane hosted the 85th Academy Awards which Monkey See's Linda Holmes says was one of the worst hosting performances in Oscar history. Jokes about women just kept coming. His sexist jokes were in poor taste, sure, but if they'd been funny, nobody would have cared. -
Mad Men is returning after a long hiatus this Sunday. NPR's Elizabeth Blair looks at the reasons for the delay and what it might mean to fans. -
When thousands and thousands of tech professionals descend on Austin in March, what do they talk about? In large part, they talk about how to manage the future. -
The Cabin in the Woods, which kicked off the South by Southwest film festival on Friday night, may look like a formulaic scary-house thriller, but ... it is not.
