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

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: You're the Worst, 60 Songs that Explain the '90s, and Little Moon wins the Tiny Desk.
Gretchen (Aya Cash) is a self-centered music publicist who falls in love with Jimmy (Chris Geere) in the FXX series <em>You're the Worst.</em>

This week we celebrated the life of an icon, ranked the SNL musical guests, and talked with the composer of the Succession soundtrack.

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

You're the Worst

It's this FX show from 2014, it ran 'till 2019. It's kind of a rom-com laced with arsenic

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