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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: Clone High, the "Thursday Murder Club" mystery series, Mel Mitchell on TikTok, and more.
Harriet Tubman, Joan of Arc and Frida Kahlo in the animated series <em>Clone High.</em>

This week we looked at some art, found some summer reads, and did some Shiv Roy psychoanalysis.

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

Clone High

So [director-duo] Lord and Miller have an animated project, If you were a teen in the late '90s, early 2000, you probably remember that weird show on MTV. The core idea of it is a scientist digs up a bunch of very famous people, clones them, and puts them in a high school as a way of like using all of

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