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

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Alice in Borderland Season 2, and the films Aftersun, After Yang and Jeanne Dielman.
Kento Yamazaki as Ryohei Arisu and Tao Tsuchiya as Yuzuha Usagi in <em>Alice in Borderland</em>.

This week, we watched The Golden Globes attempt to make a comeback, learned how to look at art from a new perspective, and got spooked by a fictional high-tech doll who can kill.

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

Alice in Borderland, Season 2

I have been watching and just finished the second season. A lot of people were watching on Netflix, which posed a very good hypothetical: What if this thing happened where you either had to fight for your life or win a lot of money? Meanwhile, really explores the emotional relationships between

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