Good Pop | Culture Club

Mar 09 2025 255 ep. 65 mins
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Welcome to the Good Pop Culture Club. Join our professional Asian American hosts Marvin, Jess, and Hanh as they discuss the good pop that gets us through our days, including TV, movies, books, and more!

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The Accidental Getaway Driver

Mar 09 2025 73 mins  
On this episode, we check out the independent film The Accidental Getaway Driver, which is finally getting its theatrical run after turning heads 2 years ago at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is based on the true story of an elderly Vietnamese private taxi driver who gets taken hostage by three escaped prisoners. Featuring some powerful performances from veteran actors along

Do We Want This? - February 2025

Mar 01 2025 73 mins  
It's been three months, but it's finally time for another edition of "Do We Want This?" Good Pop's Asian American entertainment news review! On this first roundup of 2025, we discuss our thoughts on exciting reboot/continuation news of some beloved IPs, a potential new Asian American network sitcom, and some adaptation news!What's Popping? - G Dragon, Accidental Getaway Driver, Kee

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Feb 22 2025 71 mins  
On this episode of the Good Pop Culture Club, we continue our dive into British pop culture with our discussion of Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (another sequel that Marvin will watch without seeing the previous films), featuring a more grown up, but just as messy, Bridget as she tries to navigate parenthood and love after loss. What's Popping? - Margo's Got Money Troubles, The

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Feb 16 2025 69 mins  
On this episode, the Good Pop crew jumps across the pond to check out the Oscar nominated animated film, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, where eccentric inventor Wallace and his best boy Gromit come face to face once again to one of their greatest adversaries in this cautionary tales about the dangers of AI (and gnomes). Does the latest installment of this beloved Britis

Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld

Feb 08 2025 62 mins  
It took 10 years, but we've finally made it to February! For our first episode of Good Pop this month, we're checking out a Netflix show that we missed from the end of last year, Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld! A supernatural teen action story about an Chinese American girl with special powers defending her Texas hometown from Chinese mythical creatures and demons. An amazing premi

2025 Good Pop Resolutions

Feb 01 2025 71 mins  
Well, somehow we made is to the end of a very long January, and for this episode, the Good Pop Crew gets together to share our pop culture hopes and dreams in our first annual Good Pop Resolutions for 2025, aka the year of the snake! Join us as we share what we're most looking forward to this year, as well as what we'd like to see less of.What's Popping? - Football, The Trunk, Grav

Laid

Jan 25 2025 59 mins  
On this episode, we check out the Stephanie Hsu led romantic comedy/murder thriller series Laid, where she plays Ruby, your typical millennial with a very messy dating history, who finds out that all of her exes and past partners are dying in the order of her "sex timeline." We love a wild premise, but will Laid make the grade as good pop?What's Popping? - Broadway Musicals, Severa

Squid Game Season 2

Jan 17 2025 87 mins  
Good Pop is back after an extended holiday hiatus after dealing milestone life moments and climate disaster! To ring in the new year, we're checking out the show of the season, Squid Game Season 2! We were cautiously optimistic when this unplanned 2nd season was announced, will this newest iteration (ironically brought to life by capitalism) live up to its anti-capitalist roots?Wha

Interior Chinatown

Dec 20 2024 63 mins  
For our last regular Good Pop episode of the year, we check out the Hulu television adaptation of Charles Yu's award winning novel, Interior Chinatown, starring Jimmy O Yang as Willis Wu, a background character in a world within a police procedural, as he rises through the ranks while investigating what happened to his older brother. But will this meta-fictional story about the Asi

Sweethearts

Dec 13 2024 62 mins  
On this episode of the Good Pop Culture Club, Marvin and Jess dive into Sweethearts, the new teen not-quite rom com streaming now on Max starring Nico Hiraga and Kiernan Shipka who play BFFs who hatch a plot to break up with their respective partners together during their first Thanksgiving break back from college. We at Good Pop love a good teen movie and especially love a good te