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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Welcome to the Korean Drama Podcast, the K-Drama rewatch podcast by (and for) people who don't watch Korean Dramas. Part of the Potluck Podcast Collective
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Fresh Creatives is a podcast about creating new stories! Join our hosts as they create fresh new story treatments from scratch! We get our ideas from random story prompt generators, twitter memes, and directly from you! Tired of the same old stories coming from mainstream media? Join us for something fresh and creative!
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On this episode we venture once again into a new K-Drama, this time the supernatural romantic comedy/drama Heavenly Ever After about a woman who meets her late husband in heaven, only she looks like she's 80 (because of a totally sweet reason) while he's taken on his form in his 30's! Join returning hosts Kim and Candice as well as new co-host Jane…
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On this episode we dive deep into the third season of the hot Korean death game series Squid Game! We're going full spoilercast this time so definitely proceed with caution if you haven't finished the new season yet. So does the show stick the landing? What's Popping? - Belly Laughs, Superman, Takopi's Original Sin Follow our hosts: Marvin Yueh - @…
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The Korean Drama Podcast is back for our 6th season! Join us as we kick off the new season with our primer episode where we catch up with our returning hosts Kim and Candice, as well as welcome our new co-host Jane who will be filling in for Kathy. We also preview the new drama we'll be watching this season (hint: it's a recent hit series). We're e…
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On this episode, we check out The Old Guard 2, the sequel to the 2020 action film about immortals who moonlight as mercenaries through the centuries, this time with additional Asian representation with Henry Golding joining the cast and the expansion of Veronica Ngo's character Quynh from the first film! But will they be able to elevate this surpri…
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On this episode of Good Pop, we check out some new Predator content with Predator: Killer of Killers, an anthology of Predator related animated short films about three warriors across four time periods who encounter one of these intergalactic big game hunters/a-holes. What's Popping? - Night of the Living Cat, The Phoenix Pencil Company Follow our …
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On this episode of Good Pop, the crew checks out the new Sony Animations feature film KPop Demon Hunters streaming now on Netflix. An action musical about a KPop girl group that moonlights as demon hunters facing their greatest foe, a rival boy band made up of hot demons. What's Popping? - Materialists, Squid Game S3, Finding Edna Lewis Follow our …
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On this episode, we check out the new South Korean animated Sci-Fi Romance film Lost in Starlight, which takes place in a Solarpunk vision of Seoul in the near future and follows the budding romance between an accomplished scientist who's trying to become an astronaut for a mission to Mars, and a former musician turned vintage electronics repairman…
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On this episode, we finally discuss the movie event of the year, Ryan Coogler's horror/action/historical fiction film Sinners, about a Mississippi Delta community just trying to have a good time during prohibition, and the vampires (and racists) who seem dead set on ruining their night. There's so much to discuss that we're going full spoilercast o…
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On our May 2025 edition of "Do We Want This?" Good Pop's monthly Asian American entertainment news roundup, the crew discusses Asians in the running for the Tony Awards, the reunion of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, new Japanese/Finnish Noir co-pros, and what Manny Jacinto is up to next! What's Popping? - G Dragon, Sports Docs, Top Chef Follow ou…
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We close out this heritage month by checking out the new Asian American romantic comedy Worth the Wait, an anthology style Rom Com following a cast of some of our favorite Asian Americans whose lives intersect with each other as they deal with love, loss, and overbearing moms/uncles. But is Worth the Wait worth downloading Tubi for? What's Popping?…
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We're back for our much belated wrap up episode for season 6 of the Korean Drama Podcast. Our hosts Kim, Kathy, and Candice are joined by producer Marvin to reflect on their experience watching Chicken Nugget, as well as discuss what's next for the podcast! -- Follow us on twitter at @koreandramapod Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spoti…
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As we wait to conclude heritage month with the month's last big release, the crew takes some time to finally force Marvin to watch the 2005 film version of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice before it disappears from Netflix (for now) at the end of the month. Tune in as we discuss if this (arguably) iconic adaptation hold up 20 years later a…
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On this episode of Good Pop, the crew checks out the new(ish) romantic comedy film A Nice Indian Boy, starring Karan Soni as Naveen, a doctor who brings his fiance Jay, a white guy adopted by Indian parents played by Jonathan Groff, home to meet his accepting but still conservative traditional Indian family. On paper this film has all the right pie…
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Throwback Feed Drop - Fresh Creatives #7: Merit
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Well, the life of a professional Asian American is never easy, and this is especially true in May. Because of several professional Asian obligations overlapping (as well as Jess' birthday week which is a holiday in itself), we've decided to take the week off to gather ourselves. In place of a regular episode, Marvin dug into the way back machine to…
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We begin AANHPIHM 2025, with our end-of-April edition of "Do We Want This?" Good Pop's monthly Asian American entertainment news roundup. On this episode, Marvin and Jess discuss some exciting upcoming projects from British Asian triple-threats Dev Patel and Will Sharpe respectively, some less exciting news about the future of AI and animation, and…
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On this episode, we return to The Wedding Banquet for Andrew Ahn's reimagined take on Ang Lee's 1993 classic romantic comedy! But does the story of faking a wedding to placate your relatives hold up in 2025? Join us as we dive into the ways the remake updates The Wedding Banquet's formula to tell a wholly new story celebrating the highs and lows of…
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How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
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On this episode, we return to Thailand to discuss the breakout Thai comedy-drama, How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, about a young man who is inspired to spend more time with his terminally ill grandmother in the hopes that it'll help him claim a better share of her inheritance after she passes. Join us as we dig beyond the story of familial…
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On this episode, we return to HBO's dark comedy-drama The White Lotus for another helping of the shenanigans of the rich on vacation, this time in Thailand! Join us as we discuss the show's latest batch of terrible rich people (including toxic besties, shady operators, and spoiled failsons) and the people that serve them, as well as the show's take…
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On this episode, we check out the new Hulu crime comedy series Deli Boys, about two Pakistani American failsons who inherit their father's criminal enterprise in Philadelphia after his sudden death. Featuring a stacked team in front and behind the camera, we're excited to see if this much anticipated show makes the grade as good pop! What's Popping…
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On our March 2025 edition of "Do We Want This?" Good Pop's monthly Asian American entertainment news roundup, the crew discusses some of the latest announcements of new projects including Celine Song's latest film about a love triangle, a new Crazy Rich Asians show, a Charli XCX led mockumentary, and quite possibly the most unhinged M Night Shyamal…
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On this episode of Good Pop, we check out Picture This, a new british romantic comedy about a free-spirited photographer, played by Simone Ashley, who is told by a fortune teller that she will meet her soulmate, and he'll be one of the next 5 people she dates. If this sounds familiar, it's because this 2025 film is an adaptation of the 2024 Austral…
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Go Asian: Top Chef Season 22 Primer
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Top Chef is finally back and that can only mean one thing, the return of Good Pop's spinoff podcast within a podcast GO ASIAN! Where we pledge to cover the current season of Top Chef until either all of the Asians have been eliminated, or one or more have made the finale, and our odds look great this year with 4 Go Asian candidates (and one more Bo…
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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 perfo…
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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 Dra…
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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? …
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
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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 inst…
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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 crea…
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