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What's Making Us Happy: A Guide For Your Weekend Watching, Listening And Reading

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the new season of We're Here, the anime Parasyte, the 2020 horror film Host and more.
Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela and Eureka O'Hara take small-town America by a storm on HBO's We're Here.

It was the week that Carole Baskin sued Netflix and Royal Goode Productions over the upcoming Tiger King sequel. It was also the week that the first Harry Potter film turned 20 years old. And it's also the week where NPR Music has a listening party for Snail Mail's new album, "Valentine."

Here's what the folks at Pop Culture Happy House have been paying attention to.

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