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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend listening and viewing

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: For All Mankind, The Witcher, the BeReal app, and more.
Robert Bailey Jr. as Will Tyler in <em>For All Mankind</em> on Apple TV .

This week, the list of the 2022 Emmy nominations dropped, hundreds of couples celebrated love, and Paul Rudd — in Ant-Man fashion — made a bullied kid feel big.

Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

For All Mankind

If you've spoken with me in real life for five minutes or less in the past couple of months, you've already heard me rave about on Apple TV+. I feel like not enough people are talking about this show. Ron Moore, the showrunner, did a lot of and , which is going to get some people

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