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

    Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Atsuko Okatsuka's The Intruder, Netflix's Physical: 100, the Wingspan board game and more.
    by Glen Weldon Mar 10, 2023 5 minutes
    Some of the challenges in Netflix's <em>Physical: 100</em> are literally Sisyphean.

    This week, we mourned the loss of Olivia creator Ian Falconer, learned how high school theater could be the next battleground in the culture war, and looked back at Oscars history.

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

    Atsuko Okatsuka's The Intruder

    What's making me happy this week is Atsuko Okatsuka. She is a stand-up comic with a special that dropped on HBO and HBO Max last December. It's called . She's been around for a while, and if you're extremely online, you might know her already because in 2019, she was performing on stage in Pasadenaand she helped keep the crowd calm. That became a moment. She also created a TikTok phenomenon called the in which people slowly squat while Beyonce's "Partition"

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