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What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and listening

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Made in Heaven series, the movies Married by Mistake and Gran Turismo and the 50 MPH podcast.
Blair Penner, left, Chloe Bennet and Anthony Konechny in <em>Married by Mistake.</em>

This week Toronto warmed up for a different kind of film festival, good music really got things going, and we continued to hope for an end to the strikes.

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

Married by Mistake, streaming on Peacock

What's making me happy this week is . It's a movie starring Chloe Bennet — you might know her from she graduates from business school, goes to

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