Piercing Pop Culture

About Piercing Pop Culture

We deep-dive, face-plant and usually fangirl over the media your algorithm likes to ignore.

Publisher

Kim Pierce

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Apr 2024

Latest episode

3 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

39 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Apr 2026

   The Virginian Vault: Farewell to Honesty (s3e27)

   It’s Thursday again. You know what that means! Our next installment in The Virginian Vault. This week, we’re turning our attention to “A Farewell to Honesty” (s3e27). This is an episode that’s really bringing the working-actor goodness we love so well in Piercing Pop Culture. While Douglas Henderson is really taking up space in Kim’s brain with some fascinating (and “new to her”) work, we’d be shirking our responsibilities if we didn’t call out perennial Kim favorite Richard Carlson, Kathleen Crowley, William Boyett, and Burt Mustin. There’s ALOT of actors at play in this crowded episode. There’s alot to discuss.

2. 

   1 Apr 2026

   Curator's Notes: A Piercing Pop Culture Look-Ahead

   I’m sitting down for a bit of a shorter, informal piece this week. Today, we’re taking a peek into the Curator’s Notes for a look into what’s coming down the path here at Piercing Pop Culture. My ideas, my experiment,s and some of the pieces currently percolating in my brain. Stay tuned!

3. 

   30 Mar 2026

   After the Late Show: William Smith, Hawaii Five-O and the Layers We Missed

   Friends, I disrespected William Smith for a long, long time. I didn’t know enough. I didn’t understand him. I certainly didn’t give him enough credit. I’ve been watching the final season of Hawaii Five-O this week, and I wanted to sit down to talk more about William Smith. He’s an actor who I spent most of 2025 catching up with, and there’s a complexity to him I knew nothing about. We know the bruising star persona, but there’s more there. I’m ready to learn more about William Smith.

Who has been a guest on Piercing Pop Culture

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mike Henry
• Kimberly Pierce
• Kimberly Truong

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 15 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

16

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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